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In Toronto, there is a debate over creating an Afro-centric schools.
I think this overfocus on black people while people of other races also drop out, doesn't make sense. Sure, the curriculum can somewhat change, but I don't see a point in creating schools for certain races.
If that needs to be done, then why attract such immigrants if they can't be integrated. I am not saying African-Canadians are asking for such a mini-school or to be segregated. Segregation doesn't make sense to me. Yes, the drop-out rate needs to be addressed, but Portuguese Canadians drop out, Arab Canadians drop out. Should we create Portuguese schools at tax payer expense, then?

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[Kuros]

I read a note that proposed this in the U.S. once for my Journal (Journal of Law and Education). It was a proposal to reverse desegregation and focus on an African curriculum for African-American students.

Obviously, the law in the U.S. (up until the Meredith decision two years ago) was mandated desegregation. Its wierd to see our neighbors to the North considering segregated schools. But, of course, Canada hasn't had a history of pushing African-Americans into inferior schools of their own.

There are plenty of empirical studies that show all races benefit from an integrated atmosphere. I would have to say segregated schools seem like folly.

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Let's see how popular these kind of expensive programmes will be once Canada's tax base really dries up. Ahhhh, the ridiculous indulgences of a rich, Socialist state.

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Maybe they can achieve the results of Detroit, Michigan

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090301/OPINION03/903010308/1008/OPINION01

Sunday, March 1, 2009
Nolan Finley
Commentary: Elect a crazy council, get crazy results

Nowhere is Michigan's brain drain on greater display than in the Detroit City Council chambers.

My hopes for Detroit's future faded as I watched the tape of last Tuesday's council meeting, the one that considered the Cobo Center expansion deal.

It was a tragic circus, a festival of ignorance that confirmed the No. 1 obstacle to Detroit's progress is the bargain basement leaders that city voters elect. The black nationalism that is now the dominant ideology of the council was on proud display, both at the table and in the audience.

Speakers advocating for the deal were taunted by the crowd and cut short by Council President Monica Conyers, who presided over the hearing like an angry bulldog; whites were advised by the citizens to, "Go home."

Opponents were allowed to rant and ramble on uninterrupted about "those people" who want to steal Detroit's assets and profit from the city's labors.

A pitiful Teamster official who practically crawled to the table on his knees expressing profuse respect for this disrespectful body was battered by both the crowd and the council.

When he dared suggest that an improved Cobo Center would create more good-paying jobs for union workers, Conyers reminded him, "Those workers look like you; they don't look like me."

Desperate, he invoked President Barack Obama's message of unity and was angrily warned, "Don't yousay his name here."

Juxtapose the place and the faces and imagine a white Livonia City Council treating a black union representative with such overt racial hostility. The Justice Department would swoop down like a hawk, and the Rev. Al Sharpton would clog Five Mile Road with protesters.

But in Detroit, dealing with the council's bigotry is part of the cost of doing business. As is dealing with its incompetence. (I'll pause here and excuse from that indictment Sheila Cockrel and Brenda Jones, who supported the Cobo deal, as did Kwame Kenyatta, who although he's an avowed nationalist, most often votes in the city's best interests.)

Emmet Moten, the developer who just opened the Fort Shelby Hotel downtown, was at the meeting and found it appalling. Moten went to Lansing in 1983 on behalf of Mayor Coleman Young to successfully lobby for a regional tax to support Cobo.

"And now we're saying, 'We don't want your money,'" Moten says. "If Coleman were alive today, he'd be outraged. It hurts, it really hurts."

Now, Moten says, "we Detroiters gotta be outraged."

Outraged enough to go to the polls in November and elect a brighter, more responsible council. Moten and others I talked with this week are encouraged that mayoral primary voters picked Dave Bing and Ken Cockrel Jr., the two most rational candidates on the ballot.

The test now will be whether it's those primary voters or the angry council crowd who represent the real Detroit.

As Moten notes, "You can't fix this for us. We have to fix it ourselves."

Nobody can help Detroit if voters again elect a City Council composed of separatists, clueless dowagers and the apparently insane.

Nolan Finley is editorial page editor of The News. Reach him at [email protected] or (313) 222-2064. Watch him at 8:30 p.m. Fridays on "Am I Right?" on Detroit Public TV, Channel 56.

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Also I forgot to include in my rant before about EBT Food Stamps and Cash Assistance- they don't verify income. Imagine if you will, someone driving into a DES parking lot in a new Lexus IS 350. It happens all across the country every day.

Change we can believe in.

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