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Poll# 14

Posted By The Editors | September 18th, 2009 | Category: Is This Racist? | 1 Comment » Print This Post Print This Post

Is This Racist?

“A Cohort of Kids…”

A poster to a community listserv in an upscale small-town suburb, population around 39,000—nearly 60 percent white and 32 percent black, with a sprinkling of Asian, Latino, Middle Eastern and other—wrote to say that the town’s high school, which sends some 92 percent of its graduates to college, “…is an urban school. We have a cohort of kids who don’t have consistent middle-class parenting, who come to school hungry, angry, and belong to a culture that abjures learning … deifies certain sports, criminality, and entertainment above all else. The size of this cohort varies from decade to decade but they suck up a lot of the educational oxygen…”

  • Yes (67%, 2 Votes)
  • No (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Not Racist, but Prejudiced (33%, 1 Votes)
  • I’m Not Sure (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 3

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  1. Harolynne Bobis October 3rd, 2009 1:39 pm :

    I feel this is racist because the writer

    1) uses a dog whistle – “We have a cohort of kids who don’t have consistent middle-class parenting, who come to school hungry, angry, and belong to a culture that abjures learning … deifies certain sports, criminality, and entertainment above all else. The size of this cohort varies from decade to decade but they suck up a lot of the educational oxygen…” to mean children of color and

    2) doesn’t present any evidence for deciding that “this cohort” sucks up educational oxygen that isn’t being used by the other children.