Re: Black School shut down: Is this accidental? (fwd)

So you are beriefly telling me that black schools get much less funding
not because of racism but because of "lower property tax collections". 
Why doesn't the same apply to majority white schools districts then?
You are assuming that conditions apply to everbody else regardless of
race.

The problem is not with "one room school house". The problem is with
the racist education system that marginalizes and disempowers black people
there, and leave them alone with their own problems.


Mine

Pugliese wrote: 

    What can be more marginalizing than a one-room schoolhouse! If they
need money, I'm sure the NAACP and NBCF can rustle up some dollars from
liberal foundations. 
  I think,I'll look up some local newspaper coverage of this since the CNN
story was structured as a sentimental human interest story. If you want to
make a case (which I would agree with, btw) that Majority Black School
Districts get much less funding due to lower property tax collections, I'd
more than agree. There was a US Supreme Court decision on the
constitionality under the equal protection clause, based on a suit brought
by Chicanos in Texas, on the fiscal imbalance. The Supremes said school
funding should be equalized. How to get it is another question.
                                                Michael Pugliese
                          Michael Pugliese

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Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: Black School shut down: Is this accidental? (fwd)


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> Micheal, this is another ad hominem which does not even address the issue
> at stake here! Closing down of the school is partly related to racism,
> if not directly, because the school where the African American population
> largely attend can not find enough financial resources to manage the
> budget. Poor folks ended up closing the school not simply because of
> economies of scale, but because they had no other alternative to improve
> their conditions. I am sure the schools in the white population district
> do not have the same problems. White schools receive hell amount of money
> and donations, as well as community support, since students attending
> those schools are predominantly white. Don't you think this has something
> to do with the structural marginalization of the black population, and the
> racialization of poverty that isolate black people from running their own
> communities? How can you seperate race from economies of scale? Don't
> african american people know how to manage their financial affairs?
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> ops, sorry, this topic is not interest to wsn mebers! We need to talk
> about world systemic transformations! Who cares about black schools in the
> South? or anywhere?.. we need to refocus!
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> Mine
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> > Don't you find it ironic someone going to a large, publicly funded
> >state >university system would be nostalgic for a one-room schoolhouse?
> Instead >of >seeing racism at work, automatically, how about considering
> economies of >scale?
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> > And the, "Is this accidental?, " reminds me of the old Stalinists
> >prefacing some diatribe with, "It's no accident that..."
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