Subject: RE: [Mpls] Gallmon's Racist Comments in the Strib Yep, a Black man expressing White racism. See Ron Edward's commentary on this in his web log entries #89 and #90, at www.TheMinneapolisStory.com.
Doug Mann quoted All Gallmon and then commented: "Some people will say you are blaming the victim" he said "But from where I sit, being on the school board, being a pastor, we have gotten away from the African American community having a culture, an environment that says education is important." -- Rev. Albert Gallmon, President of the Minneapolis NAACP branch, as quoted by the Star Tribune, August 1, 2003 in Schools Face Alarming Racial Gap. I know that many African-Americans and even some European-Americans do not share Albert Gallmon's view that white European-Americans generally place a higher value on getting a good education than black African-Americans. Gallmon is simply parroting the central argument used since the mid-1960s by school districts when the NAACP took them to court. Until recently the NAACP has taken the position that differences in outcomes between black and white students are largely a reflection of an unequal distribution of resources between black and white schools, unequal effects of curriculum tracking, and other school policies and practices. Putting blacks and whites together in the same schools is a necessary step, but not sufficient to give blacks access to educational facilities on the same basis as whites. -- See "Evidence that school policies matter" http://educationright.tripod.com/id173.htm snip snip snip Duncan, Brooks-Gunn and Klebanov also found no evidence to support the idea that whites place a higher value than blacks on getting a good education. They found that high income parents of all "races" who placed their children in day care programs generally chose more expensive day care programs than low income parents. -Doug Mann TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
