Wealthy suburban whites may put Black Lives Matter signs on their
lawn, but that doesn’t mean they want blacks in their children’s school.
The Donald Trump campaign’s naked racial appeal to white
professionals to keep blacks out of their suburbs has been received with discomfort and
feigned outrage by Jewish media taste makers. Polls show that affluent whites
have views on race and culture to the hard left of
blacks, so why would Trump think this is a good idea?
The animal instinct to
protect one’s children transcends education, class and ideology. On questions of racially
integrating schools and neighborhoods, educated white liberals and Jews
continue to fight just as hard to prevent mixing in their own back yard as the
lower status “rednecks” of Little Rock or the Boston Irish they morally preen
against.
A recent podcast series by Chana Joffe-Walt titled “Nice White
Parents” chronicled the experiences of “white” (Jewish and white liberal)
leftist parents in Brooklyn, who in 1963 protested the New York Board of
Education in favor of integration. The parents wrote letters to the Jewish
Board of Ed head, Max Rubin, decrying separation and demanding the
“opportunity” to send their kids to a school that also included black and
Puerto Rican children from a housing development.
The parents of the black and Puerto Rican children actually
opposed the plan, signing a letter stating that it would force their children
to travel too far to attend the school. Nevertheless, Rubin “obliged” and built
IS 293 exactly where the Jewish and white parents asked him to.
More than half a century
later, Joffe-Walt called the parents who
wrote the pro-integration letters during the height of the Civil Rights era.
She found that none of them wound up sending their kids to the mixed school.
They instead sent their kids to “progressive” elite private schools nearby,
like the Brooklyn Friends Quaker School and St. Anns.
When confronted with the hypocrisy, most cited safety concerns,
chaos, and lack of educational opportunities for why their children were too
good for the school they said they wanted. One parent was honest and said her
support for integration was fueled by fears of being perceived as politically
incorrect by her peers. Yet even with all this in mind, all of them double
downed on support for the idea… in principle.
Even as schools and towns in the South and working class communities
across the nation have rapidly diversified at gunpoint, the behavior of the
woke bourgeoisie in keeping their neighborhoods and schools white remains
completely “unenlightened.”
A Harvard study from
earlier this year finds that when asked, both Democrats and Republicans state
on questionnaires that they would prefer heavily racially integrated schools
for their kids. The same study found that in practice, the parents take
painstaking, almost comical efforts to game the integrationist system and
enroll their children in schools that are majority white, or in some cases,
Asian.
Segregation by IQ
In America’s second most segregated city, not Macon but
majority-minority New York,
wealthy white and Jewish parents navigate loopholes in the school selection
process that allows for separation based on intelligence, measured by aptitude
tests, which leads to de facto racial segregation both in schools and in
individual classrooms.
In the multicultural paradise of New York City, 75% of students
are black or Spanish-speaking blacks and Indians, yet 75% of
students in Gifted and Talented programs are white or Asian. Segregating by IQ
means that white and Asian students are kept in different classrooms and
facilities than blacks and “Hispanics.”
Mayor Bill De Blasio has pursued policies to integrate New York
City schools, but these appear to be mostly for show and virtue signaling. At
Stuyvesant, a specialized public school that is 79% white and Asian, only 10 blacks were accepted
this year. Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science and Staten Island Tech
all posted similarly low acceptance rates for blacks and Spanish-speaking
blacks and Indians.
The wealth and power of the NYC elite allows them to consistently
opt out of diversity pushes they themselves claim to support. An Upper West
Side public school that keeps its admission process shrouded in mystery and is
attended almost exclusively by the children of affluent Jewish and white leftists
like Samantha Bee and Cynthia Nixon was able to use legal jujitsu to win an exemption
for itself from a recent citywide integration program. Nevertheless, the school
teaches tomorrow’s oligarchs radical anti-white politics in its curriculum.
As calls for black and white race-mixing grow, white liberals in
New York are becoming more candid about their wish to keep non-Asian minorities
out of their schools.
Manhattan City Council candidate Maud Maron, a life long “social
justice warrior,” is running a more politically correct version of George
Wallace’s campaign, arguing that East Asians are technically
people of color and thus integrating the schools of wealthy
liberals any further is unnecessary.
“Blacks Destroy Schools”
In the elite suburb of Howard County, Maryland — which is within
commuting distance of chocolate cities like Baltimore and Washington — parents
who described themselves as Democrats working for “social justice”
non-profits turned feral at
city council meetings when officials announced it would be busing black
children into their schools.
Howard County is known for its “woke” residents. Trump only
won 30.6% (9%
lower than Baltimore County) of the vote there in 2016, but a coalition of
white liberals and Asians have aggressively picketed and resisted the plan to
mix their children with blacks.
The Howard suburb of Columbia’s motto of “Tomorrow’s America” is a
celebratory allusion to our country’s declining European majority, yet
Superintendent Michael J. Martirano’s has received thousands of
protest letters and death threats in response to his plan
to matriculate more blacks and “Hispanics” into their local school.
One protest letter to
Martirano read “Blacks destroy school systems and schools.” Another brought up
that blacks don’t value education. A third decried blacks for not taking
responsibility for their community or behavior.
Tomorrow’s America seems to agree with yesterday’s America on
race, at least in private. Trump’s appeal to a demographic full of his most
diehard haters could at the very least neutralize Democratic momentum.
The dissonance between Trump’s twitter and his campaign is also
stark. Even as Trump announces plans to end low income housing in the
suburbs, his campaignhas
been attacking Joe Biden for opposing busing and forced integration in the
past.
Voters are getting mixed
messages, but the facts are the facts. When it comes to what we want for our
kids and in our own backyards, the difference between an anti-white white
liberal and a white nationalist is theater and hypocrisy.
Which begs the question:
why do we get policies we all oppose in consensus?
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