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sourmash
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MAY 23, 10:40 AM
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I'm calling this politics in case someone sees it that way.
Are there White Mayors who say.they won't talk to non-White reporters?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/n...aFxK?ocid=uxbndlbing
Mayor Lori Lightfoot chooses only reporters of color for interviews ahead of 2-year-anniversary, sparking debate over media diversity and access
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday defended her decision to grant interviews on her two-year anniversary in office only to journalists of color, saying it was intended as an effort to confront the issue of what she described as a mostly white and male City Hall press corps.
But the move, revealed Tuesday by her office, was greeted skeptically by some in the Chicago media and beyond, with questions about whether excluding white reporters is a discriminatory act from a mayor who has had an often contentious relationship with reporters of all backgrounds.
Lightfoot emailed a two-page letter to Chicago journalists on Wednesday saying her choice was a continuation of her campaign’s promise to “break up the status quo.”
“I have been struck since my first day on the campaign trail back in 2018 by the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets, editorial boards, the political press corps, and yes, the City Hall press corps specifically,” Lightfoot wrote.
She wrote that there are no women of color assigned to the City Hall beat, saying, “I find this unacceptable and I hope you do too.”
WBEZ disputed the mayor’s observation in a Wednesday story, noting that two of its three City Hall reporters are women, one Hispanic and the other South Asian.
Interviews to mark Lightfoot’s two years in office were set for this week and come as she faces mounting problems over crime, policing, turnover in her office and ongoing battles with the Chicago Teachers Union.
The Tribune declined to participate in an interview with Lightfoot to object to the restrictions.
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Wichita
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MAY 23, 11:49 AM
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Meanwhile in race bigoted land of the left.
The NYC Board of Regents on Monday eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers in New York State pass a literacy test to become certified after the test proved controversial because black and Hispanic candidates passed it at significantly lower rates than white candidates.
So in an attempt to so call "equalize" more people of color in teaching professions, if you are a person of color you don't even need to pass a literacy test to teach kids literacy.
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Raydar
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MAY 23, 12:09 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Wichita:
Meanwhile in race bigoted land of the left.
The NYC Board of Regents on Monday eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers in New York State pass a literacy test to become certified after the test proved controversial because black and Hispanic candidates passed it at significantly lower rates than white candidates.
So in an attempt to so call "equalize" more people of color in teaching professions, if you are a person of color you don't even need to pass a literacy test to teach kids literacy.
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When I was in high school (about a million years ago) we had a Black English teacher.
On the first day of class she announced (in her best stereotypical drawl), "Attention claaaassss! This heah is English! And we-uns is gunna learn us some English!"
All the kids sat there, dumbfounded.
Then she grinned and coughed. "<ahem> Now that we have that out of the way, lets get to work. Shall we?"
Very cool teacher.[This message has been edited by Raydar (edited 05-23-2021).]
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rinselberg
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MAY 23, 12:20 PM
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Is that a new development? Or this, from 2017..?
"It’s official: New York’s prospective teachers will no longer have to pass controversial literacy exam"
| quote | State officials, and the state teachers union, also argued that the test was unnecessary since teachers already need to pass several other certification exams.
[Instead of depending upon a passing grade on the Academic Literacy Skills Test], the new measure approved by the Regents would modify a different certification exam to include additional assessment of reading and writing skills. |
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Monica Disare for "Chalkbeat"; March 13, 2017.
https://ny.chalkbeat.org/pl...ersial-literacy-exam[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 05-23-2021).]
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sourmash
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MAY 23, 12:29 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Wichita:
Meanwhile in race bigoted land of the left.
The NYC Board of Regents on Monday eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers in New York State pass a literacy test to become certified after the test proved controversial because black and Hispanic candidates passed it at significantly lower rates than white candidates.
So in an attempt to so call "equalize" more people of color in teaching professions, if you are a person of color you don't even need to pass a literacy test to teach kids literacy.
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Thus perpetuating and solidifying the continued cycle of ignorance beggeting poverty which begets increased crime to be blamed on a White supremacist environment...an environment that doesn't enforce some level of merit based system. Meritocracy is racist.
I've read some highly racially insensitive comments online saying it's unfair to expect Black people to live in and compete with White people. The NYC Board of Regents is officially saying this now, in agreement with the comments I read from assumed White people. Maybe they were fed posts but probably not.[This message has been edited by sourmash (edited 05-23-2021).]
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Rickady88GT
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MAY 23, 12:31 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
Is that a new development? Or this, from 2017..?
"It’s official: New York’s prospective teachers will no longer have to pass controversial literacy exam"
Monica Disare for "Chalkbeat"; March 13, 2017.
https://ny.chalkbeat.org/pl...ersial-literacy-exam
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So it's a few years old and now can't be called racist?
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Jake_Dragon
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MAY 23, 01:51 PM
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Being racist to fight racism?
Its not about equality, they gave up on that. Now its role reversal. Problem with that is most of us don't fit into that mold.
I believe in equality for all of us, but I will judge you based on your character, hire you based on your skill and buy you a beer, what a beer is a beer.[This message has been edited by Jake_Dragon (edited 05-23-2021).]
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maryjane
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MAY 23, 01:53 PM
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| quote | | So it's a few years old and now can't be called racist? |
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Maybe it should be called 'old school' racist.....
 [This message has been edited by maryjane (edited 05-23-2021).]
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rinselberg
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MAY 23, 02:24 PM
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No one here knows anything of substance about that literacy test for public school teacher candidates in the state of New York. How it was in 2017. About the changes that were made in 2017. About where it stands now.
No one here, including myself.
It's a mistake to think that anyone could arrive at any meaningful conclusion or inference, based only on the fragmentary reports about it that are on display here; i.e., the small anecdotal remarks about it from Wichita, or the small "Chalkbeat" report about it from 2017, that I posted.
The forum members might just as well be talking about Mr [strike that] and Mrs [strike that] Potato Head or about Dr Seuss.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 05-23-2021).]
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Jake_Dragon
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MAY 23, 02:41 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
No one here knows anything of substance about that literacy test for public school teacher candidates in the state of New York. How it was in 2017. About the changes that were made in 2017. About where it stands now.
No one here, including myself.
It's a mistake to think that anyone could arrive at any meaningful conclusion or inference, based only on the fragmentary reports about it that are on display here; i.e., the small anecdotal remarks about it from Wichita, or the small "Chalkbeat" report about it from 2017, that I posted.
The forum members might just as well be talking about Mr [strike that] and Mrs [strike that] Potato Head or about Dr Seuss.
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Do you have kids? Wouldn't this give you pause?
But can we get back to the first racist before we tackle another one?
Do you support Lightfoot's stand on reporters?[This message has been edited by Jake_Dragon (edited 05-23-2021).]
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