Racial Segregation: It's OK If It's Done By The Left

The newest liberal idiocy: Segregating 3rd-graders

"“Can racism be stopped in the third grade?”

That’s the question asked in this week’s New York Magazine cover story by journalist Lisa Miller. The short answer, of course, is that it all depends on how you define racism.

At the Fieldston Lower School, a $43,000-per-year Riverdale institution, the administration sees racism everywhere. Just consider the “microaggressions” that have been uncovered.

According to the piece: “A girl puts her hands in another girl’s hair; a boy asks his Asian friend where he’s really from. A number of years ago, a white student in a fourth-grade biography unit delivered a presentation on Jackie Robinson while in blackface.”

Here’s a news flash, folks: This is not racism. It’s children being curious about the way their friends look and trying their best to look like an American hero.

If you want it to stop, you can tell them that it’s not appropriate to touch other people without their permission, that many people who look different were born in this country. and that if you’re going to dress up as someone else, you don’t have to change the color of your skin.

You want to know what real racism looks like? Try this. In response to these incidents, as well as a whole bunch of multi-culti-educational mumbo-jumbo, Fieldston has decided to institute a policy of … segregation. Yes, that’s right. We have finally come full circle.

If you allow 8-year-olds to have an open dialogue about race, they might do things like ask about another kid’s hair or heritage.

The new liberal solution to the problems of racial tension in America today is to have third-graders fill out a questionnaire identifying their races and then spend time once a week with people who look just like them.

Because people who look alike also think alike. And let’s face it, you can only really feel comfortable with people who look like you."

Of course! Emphasizing racial differences to fight racism. Didn't Jim Crow try that? Well, Jim's back (Jim Crow was a Democrat policy too).