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‘Acting White’ in Education Week

November 24, 2010

As someone who witnessed the “acting white” syndrome, I know it’s a real phenomenon. High-achieving black students are mocked by some of their peers, because by studying and getting good grades, they’re “acting white.” In my day, “talking proper” was also cause for derision. Sarah Sparks at Education Week interviewed Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell, author of [...]

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Feds to Probe Ridiculous Wake County ‘Racism’ Claim

November 18, 2010

You may be familiar with the dust-up in Wake County, North Carolina. The school board and parents wanted to end the busing policy and promote the common sense idea of neighborhood schools. Horrible people, wanting kids to attend schools closer to home. After the board approved the new plan, people protested like Bull Connor himself [...]

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Racial Preferences Ban Bill in Utah, Part Two

November 16, 2010

Back in February, Utah lawmakers attempted to ban government racial preferences through a bill that would have amended the state constitution. The state’s house Business and Labor Committee approved the measure, but it was rejected in the house by one vote. At the time, Republicans controlled the legislature. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Republicans [...]

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DOJ: South Philly Asian Discrimination Claim Has Merit

August 31, 2010

Earlier this year, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) filed suit against the Philadelphia School District, alleging “deliberate and discriminatory indifference” after groups of mostly blacks students at South Philadelphia High School (designated “persistently dangerous”) beat up students of Asian descent. Although the district suspended about 10 students, the AALDEF claimed the [...]

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American Civil Rights Foundation Drops Suit Against LA Schools

August 26, 2010

The American Civil Rights Foundation (ACRF) has dropped a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) after it dropped a race-based teacher assignment and transfer policy as part of a settlement. (Source) Ward Connerly, spokesman for ACRF and president of the American Civil Rights Institute, said the race-based practice “grossly shortchanges the taxpayers, [...]

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A Liberal Who Gets It

August 26, 2010

I’m surprised there aren’t more articles on the web like this one. The New American Foundation’s Michael Lind, who used to be conservative but converted to liberalism, argues that racial preferences are wrong. The most important part of his article is in bold: The diversity theory is now invoked by university administrations to justify informal [...]

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‘Reverse’ Racial Discrimination in Syracuse

August 10, 2010

Like other cities, Syracuse operates under a consent decree, which stipulates that the city must hire a certain percentage of minority firefighters and police officers. Would it shock you to know I think such mandates are ridiculous as well as racially discriminatory? By the way, I put the word reverse in quotations marks, because there’s [...]

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MD Lawmaker Introduces Anti-Preferences Resolution

July 28, 2010

A county commissioner in Frederick County, Maryland, seeks to end government racial discrimination. John L. Thompson, running as a delegate to the Maryland General Assembly, introduced a proposal to demand a constitutional amendment to eliminate racial preferences in state government. The Frederick News Post reports the measure is based on California’s successful Proposition 209, which [...]

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Beware the White Influx!

July 28, 2010

Beware of the white influx in Chicago’s selective government schools! Sources report that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is using a new admissions plan, one that replaces skin color with socioeconomic status. As a result, elite schools in the district are seeing an increase of white students. Although some sources say the level of racial diversity [...]

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‘Resegregation’ Protesters

July 22, 2010

In March, the Wake County School Board in Wake Country, North Carolina, voted 5-4 to end a busing policy that sent kids to schools outside their neighborhoods, a scheme that was unpopular among parents. According to media reports, discussions at the school board meeting were “heated” and “tense.” At least three men were arrested, and [...]