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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: epicure who wrote (4826)2/4/2001 8:02:36 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
I notice something in almost every conversation about inner-city education: many people seem to think that because the task is very difficult, maybe even impossible, that it should not be attempted. This seems odd for a culture that prides itself on a "can-do" attitude. It also seems unarguably true that our inner-city problems are the legacy of our own history of racism and discrimination, and it seems strange to me that so many people who speak of absolute moral standards where other issues are concerned do not seem feel that their absolute moral standards require us to clean up our own mess. Personally, of course, I think that a serious attempt to provide education for inner-city youth is a question of enlightened self-interest, not charity or morality. But it amuses me to see how selective moral codes can be.

The mere cessation of official discrimination is hardly an adequate response. If children spend most of an afternoon flinging objects around their rooms, would the mere cessation of flinging constitute a cleanup? Hardly.

Is it too much to ask of an adult society that we clean up the mess we made, instead of pretending that because we have stopped making the mess - sort of - we have cleaned it up?

Apparently it is.
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