Thanks for the news.... I guess the 'bottomline' is not too bleak:
[...]Although Charlotte has been prominent in the national debate over school desegregation, witnesses during the two-month trial said the Southern banking and business hub was one of the nation's most racially integrated cities.
School officials said that in contrast to 1971, when about 71 percent of local students were white, now about 50 percent were white and 42 percent were black. Of the remaining 8 percent, most are Asian or Hispanic, they said.
At the same time, enrollment at Charlotte's private schools has swelled to more than 14,000, twice the national average for a school system of its size.
Here's a snapshot of the EU's closet xenophoby:
One in three Europeans claims to be racist
According to a Eurobarometer poll, 9% of those questioned described themselves as 'very racist' and 24% as 'racist'. 33% admitted to be a 'little racist' and 34% claimed to be 'not at all racist'. Belgium had the highest proportion of people claiming to be 'very racist' (22%), followed by France (16%), Austria (14%) and Denmark (12%). At the other end of the scale were Luxembourg and Sweden (2% each), Ireland and Spain (4% each). The poll also shows that while 40% of citizens consider the presence of immigrants to be beneficial, 48% feel that their country would be better off without them. 59% of those polled in Italy, and more than 50% in Belgium, Portugal and Austria, would like to send them back to their country of origin. This was a view shared by less than 25% of those polled in Ireland and the Nordic countries: Eurobarometer, No 47/1997: EC, DG X/A/2, T 120-04/08, rue de la Loi, 200, B-1049 Brussels, fax (32-2) 299 45 77, e-mail: europinion@dg10.cec.be, Internet:
europa.eu.int
Datamined from:
eur-op.eu.int |
