Uhh...listening to Death Metal or Heavy Metal does not make you a neo-Nazi or a white supremacist.
You're right. Music lyrics can be interpreted any way, though I'd like to know who specifically some Metal artists allude to killing?
Shouldn't there have only been one black person killed if this was racial? What would be the neo-Nazi point of killing the rest of those people... were the rest Jewish?
Well we are talking about an ethically homogenous Colorado suburb for the most part, not downtown L.A.
I would think it is irrelevant what the skin colour, race, or religion of the students are.
It most certainly is irrelevant. Ensuring students universally succeed isn't. If the system fails the few while passing the many, provisions should be in place to safeguard the minority that underachieve however such provisions are reached.
But why start with "black" if we are "starting somewhere"? Why not start with people with a real indicator like poor grades, poor attendance, people known to police, etc. Starting with black is like starting with surnames starting with A though F.
What if the statistics collected of those with poor grades, poor attendence and people known to the police just happened to be predominatly uniracial? This controversy would never exist if it were some white teens.
There are people of all races who live in a cycle. People who arrive in Canada from countries where people are already well off such as Hong Kong arrive with a different reality than those who don't.
So we're to blame colonialism then as the Caribbean and Africa were left devastated by the aftermath of it; depletion of natural resources to prevent boost of local economies, trade tariffs to prevent foreign investment and negatively impact import/export of goods, withholding of education during colonialism to keep native populations docile and ignorant, imposition of colonizers' values to trivialize indigenous cultures and challenge one's self-worth, etc. Meanwhile places like South America and East Asia largely through Amero-European investment evolves to near first world status. The dichotomies of life continue.
Race doesn't seem to be as important as what an individuals parents believe and do.
What beliefs? That Canada welcomes all equally and provides financial opportunities and levels of social advancement the homeland cannot? Do? Oh to think of the countless professionals who come here thinking they'll find work in their fields only to scrub floors, raise other's kids and drive around smelly taxis. Native whites? Jackpot or at the very least guaranteed employment as they've passed the color requirement!
The more we say there is a problem with "black crime" the more it will make people afraid of black people in general and perhaps create obstacles to black employment and obstacles to blacks being seen in the same light as other groups, just in the same way that a few terrorists have ruined everything for the middle eastern travelling public. Saying there is a "black education" problem requiring a "black school" will cause some youth to not learn because society has just told them that they don't have a chance.
Stereotyping is fundementally wrong, however you're choosing to view Afrocentric schools in a negative connotation. What's negative about experimenting with an oppurtunity to turn around troubled teens of all stripes. I watched the news recently and saw such classrooms already exist in GTA high schools. The focus was on black culture but there noticably a diaspora of students in attendence: Muslim girls in burkas, some teens with dreadlocks and cornrows, some dressed 'street' while others wore buttoned-up shirts. There were even three white teens in attendence, a parallel to normal Canadian classrooms where it's only 3 black teens with nothing relating them other than their skin complexion. Why should blacks or Asians for that matter always be bombarded with an Eurocentric curricula. My point to you, either reform the current regime or adopt a more pluralist one. Obviously ethnocentric schools won't replace multicultural schools, but the choice should be made available.
So creating "white school" should be fine as well if students and parents know what it may provide.
These already exist. Obviously if private schools are too expensive for single-parent, low-income, first/second generation, new immigrant family households which more often than not aren't white than of course whites can allude pluralist schools. Status and class are the new basis for segregation, not government funded programs for special needs students.
For example to deal with the white homeless problem perhaps we need special white schools to educate people how to avoid homelessness, or to prevent them from being the next Enron CEO style criminal we should have white business school where blacks need not apply.
The white homeless problem is a reflection of the bottom barrel in the social hierarchy. Often the bankrupt, mentally ill, drug addicts and gay teens form the bulk of runaways as they cannot cope with society's pressures. There are black homeless too but as in everything they're less represented.
Stupidly what some define as "black culture" has been defined not by culture passed down from Africa but by culture invented in the USA which is not a positive influence.
Yes rap/hip-hop, gang culture and the imagery of urban projects has forever tarnished the perception of blacks. This is why I feel a school teaching them something of moral and intellectual substance is better than absorbing values infiltrated and promoted by the white-controlled media. Which of course is also watched by their non-black peers/teachers whom after observing similar behaviours from black teens assume the stereotypes are true. This is how blacks are socially stunted. How can we allow that to go on?
Some movies are about a historical context, it isn't demeaning to the actor to play a role which historically important but a part of a racially divided past
Yes but is slavery/Aparteid/racism/segregation something that should be continually mined into for the sake of creating a holiday tearjerker? Something as long-lasting and detrimental as black oppression will never go away if we keep reminding new generations that one race was the slave, the other the master. Again I bring up Jena 6, not to mention Katrina, the L.A. race riots and the frequency of black arrests in the media. The past seems like just yesterday to me.
Denzel is far from typecast... he is a naval officer, a coach, a gangster, an officer, a parent who will do anything for his son, etc.
Yes but in most of those movies he's yeilding a firearm. The association between black men and violence is reinforced if an actor with as much clout as DW cannot get a part that doesn't require brandishing a weapon or being an authoritative figure (stereotype of black men being strict, serious and boisterous all the time).
But this isn't about having an intervention for a loved one. This is not the family and friends of a specific person who is doing poorly at school and hanging with the wrong crowd coming together to get him to smarten up.
It was just an analogy and a good one. It's not good enough for merely family/friends to intervene there must be a social network too that individuals can fall back on. Again without the word "Afrocentric" attached to the proposal there is absolutely no reason to debate against it.