Today I learned +

[Dannyalcatraz]

I cannot imagine the mindset it must take to send kids there. Like, the article on it says a Black basketball player sent his kids there and people were racist to them, and it's like, you sent your kids to racist pedophile academy (which was founded EXPLICITLY to exclude Black people!!!) why exactly?!

I’m thinking it’s a combination of;

1) people who regard Hammond as a heroic figure.

2) people who haven’t a clue as to Hammond is.

3) people who know who Hammond is, but hope that the school’s programs and reputation will open doors.

 

[Aeson]

That's a huge loophole in private institutions. Being private, they can discriminate in who they let in. Private Christian schools have discriminated against the LGBTQ community in recent times. They can fire pregnant unwed mothers.

Segregation academies, statues of Confederate figures, Confederate battle flags were all part of showing white dominance. There's a correlation between the emergence of these things and the civil rights movement.

 

[Ryujin]

That's a huge loophole in private institutions. Being private, they can discriminate in who they let in. Private Christian schools have discriminated against the LGBTQ community in recent times. They can fire pregnant unwed mothers.

Segregation academies, statues of Confederate figures, Confederate battle flags were all part of showing white dominance. There's a correlation between the emergence of these things and the civil rights movement.

Little known thing: You can (or could?), as a Caucasian, submit an application as a "minority student" to a traditionally Black school. A friend of mine got her Masters by applying in this way to Alabama A&M, in Huntsville. Really nice campus. Impressive football fields (of course).

 

[The Sigil]

I learned about the Index Function on 80's CD players... and in doing so realized that a lot of my favorite YouTubers' sensibilities outside of their chosen lanes are actually similar to my own... for instance, I learned Matt Colville is familiar with at least one of the same Youtube channels that I follow: Technology Connections.

I also learned a lot about properly using a dishwasher from Technology Connections (forgive this is part commercial: ).

I also learned that someone blind from birth can create paintings with perspective:
Basically, I learned that my assumptions about a great many things are wrong.

 

[Aeson]

Little known thing: You can (or could?), as a Caucasian, submit an application as a "minority student" to a traditionally Black school. A friend of mine got her Masters by applying in this way to Alabama A&M, in Huntsville. Really nice campus. Impressive football fields (of course).

I did know that. I think it's a great thing that they are willing to accept others when they were not always accepted themselves. A more pragmatic take, money is green, green is accepted everywhere. Why turn down someone's money?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Little known thing: You can (or could?), as a Caucasian, submit an application as a "minority student" to a traditionally Black school. A friend of mine got her Masters by applying in this way to Alabama A&M, in Huntsville. Really nice campus. Impressive football fields (of course).

I did know that. I think it's a great thing that they are willing to accept others when they were not always accepted themselves. A more pragmatic take, money is green, green is accepted everywhere. Why turn down someone's money?

There’s also an element of demonstrating the importance of taking the high road. Leading by example, as it were.

Some History:
Many of the oldest Mardi Gras Krewes (social clubs) of New Orleans were segregated. Someone sued to desegregate them on the grounds that- although they were nominally private- their connections to NOLA’s power networks and their sweetheart deals with the city (regarding the parades, etc.) rendered their privacy a mere artifice of exclusion. The courts agreed, and gave them a choice: desegregate or remain private while ceasing operations as parade krewes (among other things).

Most of the sued krewes opted for privacy and continued segregation, so many it threatened Mardi Gras, and thus, NOLA’s tourism industry. In response, native son Harry Connick, Jr. called a BUNCH of his celebrity friends and created the Krew of Orpheus, a fully integrated Krewe.

However, there was a reciprocal countersuit targeting the Krewe of Zulu, which had been formed as an all-black club in response to being denied membership in the older, whites-only krewes. They opted to desegregate. When my family was most involved in Zulu, there was one white member- a known Klansman. No Krewe doors, meetings or gatherings were barred to him…though he rarely showed his face.

Other examples: while focused on UT Law’s minority students, neither La Raza nor The Thurgood Marshal Legal Society barred membership to anyone based on race.

 

[Aeson]

One thing I learned awhile back that I thought was kind of wild but not surprising. When some communities were required to desegregate their public pools, they filled them in and paved over them rather than share.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Caucasian

As an aside, not an attack on you, no-one should really be using the term "Caucasian" nor really expecting anyone outside the US to understand it.

It's an outdated, not-just-inaccurate-but-outright-wrong and inherently racist term based on weird pseudo-scientific myth-making from literally the 1700s! I understand that even in the US it's being increasing deprecated. "White" may seem more stark but it's more accurate/useful (in so much as any racial classification is, which is to say, mainly to the authorities).

Caucasian race - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I remember when I first really came across it (I'm sure I'd heard it in movies/cop shows but it hadn't quite registered) in the 1990s as a teenager, and realized that's genuinely what a lot of Americans were saying instead of "White" and like, the Federal state was using it as an official term, even though like nowhere else did (I hear Australia used to a bit). Even then it was an insane term to me because I'd read up on a lot of kook racial science as a teenager, trying to work out what the hell was wrong with people - racists, specifically - where they were getting these weird and incredibly obviously wrong ideas!

though he rarely showed his face

Hah I bet! That's fascinating re: the Krewes.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Hah I bet! That's fascinating re: the Krewes.

Your reaction made me realize that was a…choice…turn of phrase.

 

[Ryujin]

As an aside, not an attack on you, no-one should really be using the term "Caucasian" nor really expecting anyone outside the US to understand it.

It's an outdated, not-just-inaccurate-but-outright-wrong and inherently racist term based on weird pseudo-scientific myth-making from literally the 1700s! I understand that even in the US it's being increasing deprecated. "White" may seem more stark but it's more accurate/useful (in so much as any racial classification is, which is to say, mainly to the authorities).

Caucasian race - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I remember when I first really came across it (I'm sure I'd heard it in movies/cop shows but it hadn't quite registered) in the 1990s as a teenager, and realized that's genuinely what a lot of Americans were saying instead of "White" and like, the Federal state was using it as an official term, even though like nowhere else did (I hear Australia used to a bit). Even then it was an insane term to me because I'd read up on a lot of kook racial science as a teenager, trying to work out what the hell was wrong with people - racists, specifically - where they were getting these weird and incredibly obviously wrong ideas!


Hah I bet! That's fascinating re: the Krewes.

Oh, I'm fully aware of that. I commented as I did because the laws date back to the early '70s, so that was the language used.