[lbo-talk] Acting White

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Fri Nov 16 09:26:34 PST 2007


berber carpet bomb wrote:


>
> Black parents are more likely than white
>parents to place their children in educational camps, attend PTA
>meetings, check their children's homework and reward their children
>for academic success.
>
Hmmm. My daughter has attended inner city public schools since 1st grade. She is in high school now. The demographics at this school are roughly 60% black; 25% latino; 5% asian; 10% white. The makeup of the PTAs is and has been 90% white and 10% black.

Writing from Oakland California.

Joanna



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