Comments on: Poll# 14 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/09/18/poll-14/ A civil rights blog promoting informed discourse on issues of race, justice, equality and democracy. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:51:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Harolynne Bobis http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/09/18/poll-14/comment-page-1/#comment-1471 Harolynne Bobis Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:39:32 +0000 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=10459#comment-1471 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. 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.

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