Was that valuable, though? To have him sit in a room with her and just ramble? Because we already have that with Trump’s phone calls to Fox and Friends. What we don’t have is anyone pushing him to connect what he says with reality. What we have seen though is with even a little bit of push-back he tends to…

Why is her marriage or her children relevant? She wasn’t criticized for her looks, she was criticized for lying to the American people on a daily basis to support an administration that is racist, xenophobic, corrupt, and inept. Is she a professional who has a powerful job for which she should be held accountable,…

I think Maggie Haberman in particularly is a tricky voice on this issue. I read the Washington Post more than the NYT, but I remember that she was the rare journalist who got an interview with Trump in the past year, and she never pushed back at any of his blatant lies, she just kept nodding her head at everything he…

I don’t think it’s even a projection. They can’t take Michelle straight on, since what they’re offended by is her speaking truth to power, and of doing what none of them will do: to call a liar a liar to their face. So they’re saying she dragged SHS for her appearance, which she didn’t. I think it was uncomfortable…

The dynamic that I mentioned was something that was discussed about in Kozol’s Shame of the Nation, a book about segregation in NYC schools. I would strongly recommend that you read it. There are probably more recent books on the subject of segregation in American schools, but I remember this book being very…

Because you misunderstood me the first time, I will just cut and paste another response of mine to illustrate that I am not, in fact, asserting what you say:

unsolicited suggestion: sit with the energy that you are spewing all over the internet. see how that feels, and what insights come. the Buddha tells not to accept gifts of anger. respectfully, i thank you for your gifts, but I cannot accept them. Best of luck to you.

i don’t think it’s a chain effect like you’re thinking. But I can’t speak with authority on the matter since I don’t work for the school district. I have been talking more broadly.

if that is how you want to interpret this, then you certainly can. Best of luck to you.

Dude. go outside. Find someone to give you a hug.

dude. go outside. talk to an actual human. find someone to give you a hug. stop swearing at people on the internet.   

A sacrifice has already been made, and it has been made disproportionately by the most vulnerable among us. I see the idea of white affluent children having to share resources really stirs up a lot of emotion in you, but where was your emotion when underprivileged children were being deprived of those opportunities. …

dude, if you want to act unaffected by an argument then try to be less reactive. best of luck to you.

But I didn’t say the opposite. I said what I said. If you replace “love” with “hate” in a message then yes, it’s true, you would end up with a very different message. Thanks for your insights though.

So this is a trussed up version of the “poor people are lazy” argument, which I don’t deal with. The key point I “omitted” is nothing more than your own personal bias and assumption about a lack activism and involvement in less affluent communities. And I think your key point ignores that more affluent communities…

generally I don’t give a lot of credence to people who wallow in how big a problem is and how ineffectual small acts of change are. I personally believe that change is incremental, and it takes a lot of work and a lot of time and a lot of small steps by a lot of different people and parties. It is easy to call a…

No, because the way the system presently is set up is to allow resources to be funneled to the top, which you don’t seem to have a problem with.

but that’s not how people understand the situation. Affluent people can ignore the communities they displace, which is easy enough because they never have to see them. So the narrative is never “a community came together and worked hard so that the children of that community could get a quality education, and then…

Why should an untold number of children have to grow up under segregation in NYC schools? Why should children have to grow up in a system that keeps them separate and treats them unequally? Why should other children receive sub-par educations because you want to prioritize your own entitlement and white privilege…

I generally don’t get into conversations with people who live in imbalanced societies but want to preserve the sense of their own goodness. I attended a historically black college for three years, and that really helped me see my white privilege in a way that otherwise is hard to see. We live in a racist society and…