I live in Seattle, and have seen the results of this kind of "integration" social engineering. There are a couple of things that most people outside Seattle dont know about it. 1- There are far more kids in this city in need of schooling then there are schools. 2- There are many of those schools that are frankly, very poor schools. 3- If you are "out of zone" then you ride Seattle city metro, sometimes transferring 3 times and spending an hour and a half ride on the Seattle city busses on each trip. The busses here are famously expensive (4.50 in some areas!), as there is no city subsidization and no attempts to control the hikacked prices of the city metro corporation that runs things.
Because of the racial integration attempts, students, assuming they are even lucky to find a school that has openings (and many, many kids are not), will often be shuffled around to meet arbitrary racial integration standards. They will have to ride across the city, sometimes through dangerous neighborhoods, to very poor schools (because the good ones are already taken). If they are not wealthy, the city will give them a bus pass (a hassle to get in its own right), and if they are not poor the middle class families who are already a little tight are paying an additional 100 dollars a month paying for it themselves. It is not without cause that many white nationalists complain of minorities receiving special treatment, as they see situations where their child is forced out of a good school into a very poor and very dangerous one (that takes 3 hours out of the child's day on top of the very heavy homework) so that somebody else can receive a "shoo-in" to a good school based on the fact that they are somehow more deserving for the color of their skin. Whether it is to "help" or to hurt, any kind of legislation or practice that uses the color of ones skin is racist in nature and only propagates a segregationist society. This situation is a good example of how people can be blinded by labels. Somebody tells a bunch of liberals "This will help those poor unfortunate minorities. Look! Its an INTEGRATION thing", and suddenly court judges are voting on political lines (lines that should not exist in the judicial branch in the first place) and everybody is calling it segregationist to shut it down. Critical thinking 4tl. :( ~Zephyr~
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Date: 2006-12-05 04:35 am (UTC)There are a couple of things that most people outside Seattle dont know about it.
1- There are far more kids in this city in need of schooling then there are schools.
2- There are many of those schools that are frankly, very poor schools.
3- If you are "out of zone" then you ride Seattle city metro, sometimes transferring 3 times and spending an hour and a half ride on the Seattle city busses on each trip. The busses here are famously expensive (4.50 in some areas!), as there is no city subsidization and no attempts to control the hikacked prices of the city metro corporation that runs things.
Because of the racial integration attempts, students, assuming they are even lucky to find a school that has openings (and many, many kids are not), will often be shuffled around to meet arbitrary racial integration standards.
They will have to ride across the city, sometimes through dangerous neighborhoods, to very poor schools (because the good ones are already taken). If they are not wealthy, the city will give them a bus pass (a hassle to get in its own right), and if they are not poor the middle class families who are already a little tight are paying an additional 100 dollars a month paying for it themselves.
It is not without cause that many white nationalists complain of minorities receiving special treatment, as they see situations where their child is forced out of a good school into a very poor and very dangerous one (that takes 3 hours out of the child's day on top of the very heavy homework) so that somebody else can receive a "shoo-in" to a good school based on the fact that they are somehow more deserving for the color of their skin.
Whether it is to "help" or to hurt, any kind of legislation or practice that uses the color of ones skin is racist in nature and only propagates a segregationist society.
This situation is a good example of how people can be blinded by labels.
Somebody tells a bunch of liberals "This will help those poor unfortunate minorities. Look! Its an INTEGRATION thing", and suddenly court judges are voting on political lines (lines that should not exist in the judicial branch in the first place) and everybody is calling it segregationist to shut it down.
Critical thinking 4tl. :(
~Zephyr~