The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(01-26-2021, 01:36 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-21-2021, 02:22 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(01-21-2021, 12:05 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-20-2021, 05:17 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(01-19-2021, 11:47 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Slavery has been resolved and Jim Crow has been resolved. This dispute that exists is a cultural and economic and class related dispute between American culture and the Liberal/Democratic elite for the most part over issues directly related to them and the use of their power and the issues related to urban Democratic culture which has a lot of internal problems and ain't been looking so great these days/lately...

Yes, we eliminated slavery, but Jim Crow is still alive and well.  That you can't see it only tells me you aren't in a place where it applies.  How big a minority population do you have in your town?

I'd say about half of the public school population is minority these days. You still have laws in place that restrict minorities these days. I'm not talking about economic hurdles or the inequity that exists between classes these days. I'm talking about laws that restrict purely on the basis of race these days.

Schools are actually more segregated today than they were in the pre-bussing days. And crappy schools exist where the "less desirables" live ...as they always have.

My daughter says the high school is pretty much racially segregated by choice these days with the exception of those who are in sports.

The more blatant segregation is between the smart kids and the not-so-smart kids. The smarter (largely middle-class) white kids see themselves having more in common with America's Model Minorities than with people that those smart white kids see as 'losers' such as dopers, dullards, and gang groupies. I have seen the pattern as a substitute teacher, and I can see behaviors that suggest a drop-out (like high rates of absence, bad grades, and disciplinary problems). In one school where I got many assignments (it was a middle school, and you can imagine what a non-nonsense teacher I am)... I could tell what class periods would be trouble. The ones with the most absences, and the ones in which students were behind the usual level of achievement. In one class, "Transition Math" (pre-algebra), the kids are fine if they are in 7th or 8th grade. Kids taking that in ninth grade (sure that is high school, but I have been there) are often trouble. It's not the design of the math textbook that is the problem. Before I give up on explaining a few things: criminality. As we all know, criminality is for stupid people.