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On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 05:48:16 GMT, "ksf news" <atexunnews@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

><* US *> wrote in message news:jecaf15llb5elhch4t41n2nqj71q5u4auj@4ax.com.
>> ...
>> Anti-black racism is still doing significant damage to nonwhites.
>> ...
>
>Racism is alive and repressing, even in the Texas liberal pinnacle of 
>Austin. Anyone who denies the APD "burn, baby, burn" comments and shootings 
>of non-Anglos are encouraged by racism is wearing blinders. I am a 
>light-skinned non-Anglo, and I was shocked by the amount of open racism in 
>this community when I moved here from the Midwest in the '90s.
>
>Racism (and all forms of judging persons based on degrading classifications) 
>has led to political policies which injure those groups. For example, black 
>society has been decimated by laws automatically jailing crack cocaine 
>addicts, leaving many single mothers to fend for themselves. Meanwhile, 
>suburban drug addicts (e.g., Rush Limbaugh) face far less punitive laws.
>
>Many non-anglo groups in the US face great and historical disadvantages. 
>This does not mean, though, that they are not capable of overcoming these 
>obstacles. Denying the reality of social power in this country will NOT help 
>them succeed. Bilingual education has been shown much worse at preparing 
>students to excel in school than English as second-language instruction. The 
>same can be applied to teaching Ebonics in a bilingual system.
>
>All cultures have intrinsic value, but if the population wants to compete 
>within the broader US society they need to learn the rules of the game. And 
>one of the most important rules is: education is power.

You're right about the damage still being done by the racists.

No one has suggested, however, the teaching of ebonics.

What's being advocated as a superior educational technique,
however, is the refusal to consider it inferior or to disregard
its linguistic basis.