The new executive director of the Urban League has stated that she is very disturbed by the vastly disproportionate numbers of African-Americans disciplined within the Seattle Public School system.
Why?
My guess:
Because they disrupt classes with unruly behavior (as in bullying, threatening, or striking other students, getting into fights, yelling, kicking, biting, screaming, using abusive four-letter-word language, stealing or grabbing other students' possessions, "acting up" in class, not listening to their teachers' requests to not interrupt class...)
Not so different from the '60s, when their parents were "acting wild" in junior and senior high school in Seattle. (My personal experience).
A frank discussion of race in Seattle is not going to happen unless views such as mine or not smacked down, figuratively and literally, and attacked as "racist."
"We can criticize you because we're African-American and you're not."
Why?
My guess:
Because they disrupt classes with unruly behavior (as in bullying, threatening, or striking other students, getting into fights, yelling, kicking, biting, screaming, using abusive four-letter-word language, stealing or grabbing other students' possessions, "acting up" in class, not listening to their teachers' requests to not interrupt class...)
Not so different from the '60s, when their parents were "acting wild" in junior and senior high school in Seattle. (My personal experience).
A frank discussion of race in Seattle is not going to happen unless views such as mine or not smacked down, figuratively and literally, and attacked as "racist."
"We can criticize you because we're African-American and you're not."
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