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A comment on The Melting of Mark Zuckerberg’s $100MM Donation to Newark Schools. Parent comment

Re:The Melting of Mark Zuckerberg’s $100MM Donation to Newar... by mratzloff on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @08:14PM (#10126764)
Of course it has to do with race. You yourself are using code words of "affluent" for white and "crime-ridden" and "violent culture" for non-white, which is the same coded language parents themselves might even use to justify their prejudices. However, just because a neighborhood is mixed-race does not imply it is "crime-ridden".

Spending part of this money on desegregation busing programs would have been a step in the right direction.

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Re:The Melting of Mark Zuckerberg’s $100MM Donation to Newar... by eanzenberg on Thursday August 27, 2015 @03:49PM (#10131632)
You are the one injecting race not me. There exists affluent families of many different races, sometimes interracially mixing.

However, just because a neighborhood is mixed-race does not imply it is "crime-ridden".

Exactly.

Spending part of this money on desegregation busing programs would have been a step in the right direction.

No, it would a step in the "race to the bottom" direction. Solutions should be based on bringing the lowest performing students up without affecting the best performing students. Those are the hardest solutions BTW which is why people like you are attracted to the easiest ones.

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