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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: epicure who wrote (259717)9/1/2014 1:51:19 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 542950
 
"Get those white kids to ED classes."

Well, then put the black kids in ED or suspend the white kids, too.

"Maybe we will have fewer dysfunctional white kids"
Not if the black kids get suspended and the whites get counseled. In practice, we're already creating cultural differences at 3 years of age, as Bentway pointed out.

Blacks and whites are not treated equally, whether in the classroom,
"black children make up 18 percent of preschoolers, but make up nearly half of all out-of-school suspensions. (We're talking mostly four-year-olds, people.)" Message 29694584

the courtroom

Black people are 3.7 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people despite comparable usage rates
aclu.org

or behind the wheel.
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