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rinselberg
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MAY 23, 03:16 PM
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As I understand it, this is only for the one day. The two-year anniversary day of the mayor's mayoralty. The press conferencing that the mayor is going to have on that one particular day.
I don't think it's a big deal one way or the other. I'm sure that the day after, the mayor and many of her supporters will say that it was a positive thing, for the mayor's press conferencing to have been set up that way, for that particular occasion.
I'm not going to know enough about it to have any strong feelings about it, one way or the other. "Six of one" VS "a half dozen of the other." In all likelihood, that is where I expect to be about it, one day after it happens.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 05-23-2021).]
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sourmash
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MAY 23, 04:06 PM
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What I see in your last 2 posts is: apologetics, apologetics, apologetics, apologetics, apologetics, apologetics, apologetics.
Everybody has seen the coverage of highly compensated school employees doing no educating, but are instead sent to some building where no kids are even located because of some incident that never gets resolved. L
And if anyone has ever witnessed an inner city class room in city school systems you come away shocked, feightened, and angry, disgusted, etc..
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Rickady88GT
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MAY 23, 06:43 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by maryjane:
Maybe it should be called 'old school' racist.....
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LOL
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Rickady88GT
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MAY 23, 06:46 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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Who needs to know more than "white people have to take a test for employment, and black people are exempt from the employment test" to make a decision on the policy being racist or not? Seems like someone is saying people are not equal?
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sourmash
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MAY 23, 06:58 PM
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There's way, way more people of African descent than White people in the world. They will be right about half the world population in 1 lifetime according to the UN.
Whites are 8% and shrinking.
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rinselberg
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MAY 23, 07:42 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Rickady88GT:
Who needs to know more than "white people have to take a test for employment, and black people are exempt from the employment test" to make a decision on the policy being racist or not? Seems like someone is saying people are not equal? |
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What I read in that “Chalkbeat” report from 2017 was that the Literacy Skills Test that they had been using was to be eliminated for ALL applicants.
Please refer to my earlier message which has some text that I duplicated from “Chalkbeat.”
 [This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 05-23-2021).]
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blackrams
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MAY 23, 08:17 PM
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My guess is, Mayor LIghtfoot is trying to make a splash of notoriety that might help her in future elections. Other than that, she's Chicago's problem.
Rams
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Rickady88GT
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MAY 24, 12:18 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
What I read in that “Chalkbeat” report from 2017 was that the Literacy Skills Test that they had been using was to be eliminated for ALL applicants.
Please refer to my earlier message which has some text that I duplicated from “Chalkbeat.”
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Ok, thank you for clearing this up. I misunderstood.
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2.5
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MAY 24, 12:13 PM
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Havent ya'll heard, choosing based on race is the new "virtue signal", but seems like ya gotta only choose certain races...
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rinselberg
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MAY 24, 01:43 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 2.5:
Havent ya'll heard, choosing based on race is the new "virtue signal", but seems like ya gotta only choose certain races... |
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I hope that the people here that are commenting on this have at least looked at the article that was posted to start this thread. The second half of that article. Only the first half of that article was duplicated as part of the Original Post.
Mayor Lightfoot is framing this as an Affirmative Action kind of preference for media outlets and reporters that she believes have been neglected by previous Chicago administrations. Framing this (in so many words) as "Chicago Affirmative Action Day for Media of 'Color' . . ."
Mayor Lightfoot's plan for this day has many detractors, including People of Color and one person (in the article) named "Joie Chen" who is luke warm (if even that) in terms of being enthused about the mayor's idea.
The way that this thread was set up, so it reads (as the Topic) "Mayor Lori . . . Lightfoot says won't talk to White reporters."
As if the mayor had said that she will not talk to white reporters "period." Instead of--as the mayor actually said--on this particular day.
 [This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 05-24-2021).]
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