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  • Jena 6- missing points

    If the author were to do a bit more investigation, he would have come up with the following already available timeline from the friends of justice to provide further context for the situation. For example- -Members of the Jena six *were * involved in convening a peaceful protests after the noose incident. One of the responses to this sit ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by brw on September 25, 2007

  • The last statistic is my point

    Hi Degsme, So first I'll reply to your last post--that 33% of the Seattle residents have arrived in the last 5 years. I think that statistic is exactly my point. And I'd agree that it is probably true from anectodal evidence. Most of the families on my parents' block have moved in since 2002, which funny enough is around the time the ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 24, 2007

  • Re: Quotas are not percentages

    There are quite a number of private high schools in Seattle. And they have grown in huge numbers since 1970, and all have wait lists. There are (off the top of my head, I'm sure I'm missing a few): Lakeside, Blanchet, University Prep, Seattle Prep, Holy Names, O'Dea, Bush, and Northwest So that's 8 in a city of 500,000. Not insignificant. And I ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 17, 2007

  • So what's the solution?

    Wow, degsme. Thanks for the great posts. So, what's the plan? How do we solve this? (I hope I wasn't the one who name called, for goodness sake, we haven't stooped that low, have we?) On many of these issues we are just in disagreement. I will always think my grandparents worked in a diverse environment in Eastern Washington because as a city ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 15, 2007

  • It wasn't brainwashing

    I was hoping that degsme would reply to my earlier post because he obviously had insight in to the Seattle system. I disagree with Iwasblind because a lot of what you are saying is theory and makes for great t-shirt slogans. In reality a lot of these ideas don't pan out. Everyone grows up in a ''culture'' whether it is European, African, Asian, ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 14, 2007

  • The numbers are the point

    You made a lot of great points here. I'll try to address them all as best as I can. I think the numbers are the biggest piece of evidence we have when we discuss the success of SSD's integration policies. Go to the suburbs now and go to the private schools. Talk to people who have lived in the city for generations. They will tell you about ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 9, 2007

  • Re: Blacks do not need racial harmony or white americans

    Ironically enough, I'm a white guy who was born in 1954. I've also had the opportunity to live in black neighborhoods, work in majority black settings, and reflect on the white racism of my family, co-workers, and people I've met on the way. In the final analysis, soulgroove07 is overly generous toward whites. In fact, he doesn't mention ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by riccaric on July 9, 2007

  • The puzzle piece was already lost

    I appreciate your reply, and you obviously do know a lot about the system and the way it worked. I must add that my parents were both products of Washington state public schools, and my maternal grandparents were both public high school teachers in a culturally diverse community in Eastern Washington for over thirty years. My family cares deeply ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 6, 2007

  • Freedom, the Constitution and failed social theory

    As I understand it, the Brown decision did not order racially mixed schools. It ordered the removal of laws and policies prohibiting racially mixed schools. The principle it upheld was racial nondiscrimination. I originally supported busing because I assumed that busing was a temporary (like, maybe a decade or two) remedy to ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Iwasblind on July 5, 2007

  • The Seattle Problem

    I think Mr.Dellinger doesn't understand the issue in Seattle when he chides Chief Justice Roberts for comparing historic racism in the South to the SSD's policies. Of course, they are radically different. And no white person in Seattle would ever say that their experiences over the past 3-4 decades could ever equate to those of an African American ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 1, 2007
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