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Thursday, February 01, 2007

A white mother and an African-American mother slam Black "street culture" does that make the white mother a racist?"

From an article in today's Oakland Tribune

"Though a school's academic quality is a factor in the decision, so are race and class, although the subject is often discussed indirectly. Some middle-class African-American parents, for example, say they don't want their 5-year-olds to morph into the teenage kids they see around town, sporting the MTV look du jour — the baggy pants, the gold teeth, the hoods draped over their heads.

"There's no way in the world my son is going to go to middle school or high school in Oakland," said Ta-neshia Roosevelt, who attended a private school fair last fall with her son Omarriyah. "I just see how these kids are out here, and I don't want my son to be that way."

Others worry their adolescent child, already navigating a difficult stage of life, would be alienated from their peers. One white mother described what she saw at her neighborhood middle school as a "street culture" in which her daughter couldn't — and wouldn't care to — fit."

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