There are areas in Atlanta that are 90% black.
I've been to Cleveland more times than Atlanta and it didn't occur to me it was majority black lol. I suppose that's got more to do with the various districts and how they've reached the modern day. I don't think most people imagine "east Cleveland" as a dangerous place, but it certainly was when I left Ohio. It's not Gary, Indiana nor East St Louis...but you should definitely have your guard up there. Anything can happen.
It is difficult finding a good role model for inner-city children.
I didn't think of it like that but I understand. I was thinking of Baltimore and Chicago specifically and how quickly those children end up in gangs, get used by gangs, and end up in that dismal cycle.
My son has been offered many jobs as a coach because they have a lot of trouble finding the right people to do the job. Of course, it does not pay very much compared to what people can be making out in the private sector.
Coaching always seemed more like a passion project to me. Something done more for the experience than for profit. There's some comedian somewhere I'm reminded of...and I don't remember the joke, but it was about the way girls try to turn fashion into a career before finding a real job, while guys try to turn sports into a career before finding a real job.
We had a band leader that ran into a problem with the board of education.
What was the problem?
He had no problem getting a job in a school district that would treat him right and show some respect and appreciation for him.
Teachers are sadly in a tough spot. If they weren't so arrogant in their beliefs it would be easier to sympathize with them. They make so little money typically, that they aren't exactly able to push back against practices they find harmful, wasteful, or otherwise wrong. Trying to do so threatens their ability to pay the bills....so sadly, they go along to get along.
The idea that parents have no say in curriculum is absurd. Parents used to do the teaching, and even after teaching was a profession....the Scopes Monkey trial is an old example of the acceptance of parents having a say in their child's education. Teachers decided almost overnight....parents should be removed from the process.
We got rid of the people on the board that caused all the problems.
This is called a right wing phenomenon....but even cities as liberal as San Francisco saw the exact same thing happen. In my mind, it happened anywhere that parents are attentive to their child's education.
He was the one that taught my son how to take advantage of his minority status.
Not sure what you mean by this....
I have seen these things happen of course, it's simply not something I've ever done. I cannot say I can ever recall a time when I was told I deserved something because I was white....nor do I think I could successfully make the claim I've been deprived of something because I'm white (so few would seem to believe me even if I had evidence).
Yet, here's the real catch....I don't want to make those claims. I'm not entitled to anything because I'm white....I am entitled to some few things because I'm lucky enough to be a citizen of this nation and I'm a human being. Likewise, I don't deserve to be deprived of anything for being white...but if it were to happen, even on the explicit racial terms of "because you're white"....I don't think I'd argue against the discrimination because it's racial. I'd argue against it because it's inherently dehumanizing to reduce someone to mere skin color.
The people who preach those things, and the thoughtless cowards who repeat their words, are vile in my eyes.