The Latest Crime Wave: Sending Your Child to a Better School
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#2used her father's address to enroll her two daughters in a better public school outside of their neighborhood. After spending nine days behind bars charged with grand theft, the single mother was convicted of two felony counts
Slightly insane, eh, what?
I can think of a few people roaming around foot-loose and fancy-free, and even pocketing scores of millions of dollars, who should be doing that.
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#3America is still a deeply segregated society. And the segregation is built in such a way that it tends to keep people where they always where.
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#4America is still a deeply segregated society. And the segregation is built in such a way that it tends to keep people where they always where.
The segregation is not all systemic. I remember reading an article discussing research discussing how neighborhoods change as a result of very slight preferences of "I'd rather be by somebody of my race than a different race." This applied to black and white neighborhoods.
Taken over time and populations, these very slight differences in preference (and, realistically, in the USA, it is unlikely to be "slight") lead to segregated neighborhoods.
If anybody has the original, I'd love to see it again and find out what I've mis-remembered. I couldn't find it.
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#5I'm not sure if, as I progress through my 30s, I am becoming more liberal, more cynical or more jaded, or what, but it seems like every day I read some article about the United States which elicits a, "What the FUCK?" from me.
This is one of those articles. Seriously? Prison??
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#6America is still a deeply segregated society. And the segregation is built in such a way that it tends to keep people where they always where.
Is there something wrong with groups of people wanting to self segregate?
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#7I'm not sure if, as I progress through my 30s, I am becoming more liberal, more cynical or more jaded, or what, but it seems like every day I read some article about the United States which elicits a, "What the FUCK?" from me. This is one of those articles. Seriously? Prison ??
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#9In general, "Better school" means a school with more whites and or Asians. "Bad schools" means a school with more black and Hispanic students.
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#10America is still a deeply segregated society. And the segregation is built in such a way that it tends to keep people where they always where.
The segregation is not all systemic. I remember reading an article discussing research discussing how neighborhoods change as a result of very slight preferences of "I'd rather be by somebody of my race than a different race." This applied to black and white neighborhoods. Taken over time and populations, these very slight differences in preference (and, realistically, in the USA, it is unlikely to be "slight") lead…
I compare it to boxing matches. If I'm watching a match between someone who is identified as German, and someone who is identified as Italian, without other influences, I am going to tend towards cheering for the Italian, because I identify more with Italians. Never mind the fact that I'm 3/4th German and only 1/4th Italian, and certainly don't have anything against Germans. It's purely a unconscious tribal reflex, rarely even noticed unless given a chance to magnify (time and numbers provides this magnifying factor in communities.)