Word: racistly
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...condemn the State Board of Education for giving lip-service to integration while actually echoing the racist belief that black children are less able to learn. They argue that because of yesterday's racism, today's black children are unable to learn unless they have white children to use as models. We believe black children score lower on reading and other performance tests because a racist system does not try to teach them--not because of black inferiority...
...members of the scientific and academic community, we feel a special responsibility because the racist writings of some of our colleagues are used to lend support to the more blatant racists on the School committee. None of these theories can cite a single proven fact for their support, yet they are proclaimed in scientific journals and the popular press alike as important new discoveries...
...teachings and writings of racist academics go a long way to convince white parents that integration is not only inconvenient, but destructive of good education. We therefore believe it necessary to refute these teachings as widely and thoroughly...
There are many faults in the state-imposed racial balance plan. These faults, however, are not caused by the state's desire to integrate the Boston schools. Just the opposite: They are due to the state planners' concurrence in many racist ideas--e.g., that black students cause bad schools. Consequently, the state plan, far from providing for improvements in the schools, increases pupil/teacher ratios, provides no space for special programs like bilingual education, effectively closes 22 schools by leaving them--but not their students--out of the plan, and leaves from 55 to 70 schools "imbalanced" (that is, more than...
...urge all parents, teachers, and students to reject the racist arguments of both sides, and move forward with the following program...