New York Times
February 21, 2008
On February 19 of this year a very self rightous Joel Klien strolled into court demanding a law be lifted that demanded his school have a certain amount of non-white students. The school, Coney Island's Mark Twain School , is a magnet school and had the law put in place in 1974. He argued that thte law was no longer needed and that since the law had been lifted in other places it should be lifted here. What Joel failed to mention was that recently he had participated in a gourgeous act of discrimination. A young Indian girl by the name of Nikkiti Rau is the daughter of Indian immigrants and unfortuantely applied after the school had filled its "quota" of non-white students. What's even more funny is that she scored much higher than the white students enrolled. I think that this is digusting. Fortunately, They are now being sued by Nikkiti's parents. I really liked this article. I think it is great when we bring to attention that there is still discrimination. I didn't feel like he tried to use any kind of emotional appeal on me and that he just gave me the facts.
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I think racism is really sad and horrible thing that still exists. I can't even imagine how these people feel who are being discriminated against even though they could be smarter and ore qualified than the people who are shunning them. I just think this Joel Klein is a jerk. If you are running a magnet school, you want all of the smartest kids, despite their racial background. I think some people are just really ignorant.
We don't have to go very far to still witness racism. It is still everywhere. The purpose of a magnet school is to attract the best and brightest, no matter the color of their skin.
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