Maggie's Farm

Dan D

Personal racism, there is still plenty of that around. The ugly kind, in any pro sporting event's grandstands
Yes, but I am also reminded of two sporting events. i)Some TV network tried to foment an anti-Muslim incident at a NASCAR event, to no avail. ii) Sporting fans in Spain were very vocal about racial epithets towards black athletes, at a volume that would be shocking in the US.


Try conversing with some successful North Carolina business types about why their kids attend private Christian schools instead of public schools, for one example.

Or why DC libs and the POTUS have their children schooled at Sidwell Friends and not at DC public schools.

Public schools no place for teachers' kids.
Nationwide, public school teachers are almost twice as likely as other parents to choose private schools for their own children, the study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found. More than 1 in 5 public school teachers said their children attend private schools.

In Washington (28 percent), Baltimore (35 percent) and 16 other major cities, the figure is more than 1 in 4. In some cities, nearly half of the children of public school teachers have abandoned public schools.

In Philadelphia, 44 percent of the teachers put their children in private schools; in Cincinnati, 41 percent; Chicago, 39 percent; Rochester, N.Y., 38 percent. The same trends showed up in the San Francisco-Oakland area, where 34 percent of public school teachers chose private schools for their children; 33 percent in New York City and New Jersey suburbs; and 29 percent in Milwaukee and New Orleans.

This is a complex issue.
1) From having observed bigotry and racism overseas,and also personally having been the object of same, I reached the conclusion that liberal guilt was not justified. The US did better than most. People who by group affiliation would be at each others' throats outside the US, get along here.
2) Ethnocentrism and group affiliation are too deeply embedded in our beings to completely eradicate. While things are better than they were 60 years ago, they are not perfect- nor will they ever be.
3) The overplaying of the race card in recent years reminds me of the boy who cried wolf. When the race card is played for political advantage, not for justice, the race card becomes debased, and more and more ignored.

Blacks will progress more by reducing the illegitimacy rate than by hunting down and punishing intimations of racism.