That’s capitalism’s fault. Poor white kids would face the same issues.
True, but that's not what the discussion was about. Black kids are disproportionately poorer than white kids, and that's because they inherited inequalities from the past, which came about because of slavery and systematic racism.
It’d be awesome if we can just solve language barriers generally. Before we can do that having a single official language in working situations seems to be not avoidable for productivity
What you are suggesting is a lingua franca, which is already the norm in multilingual countries. That's quite different from having a colonial language dominating over the others.
When you have to pick a language to teach in, isn’t this the best language to teach in though, in a predominantly English speaking society?
And how did that society become predominantly English speaking?
You just highlighted the point OOP was making.
English (and French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc) became dominant by pushing the native languages on the brink of extinction through systematic racism. So now that the damage is done, instead of fixing it, we just carry on and deny kids the right to receive an education in their native language? (Speeding up the rate of extinction)
If you think that the problems (inequalities) racism brought ceased to exist with segregation, try learning about red-lining and how countless black neighborhoods got unfairly bulldozed to make space for highways. All that stuff happened only a lifetime ago, of course its effects can still be felt today.
i don’t have a dream job i have a dream community role. i don’t want to work for profit in a world where that’s the priority, i want to work because i love the people around me. that’s my dream, not labor under capitalism
some of y’all are missing the point, so let me break it down a little
capitalism = bad. it’s sucking the life and love out of people.
relying on & supporting our communities + stripping “labor” of its profit value = good.
yes i want to work. for my community, not amerika.
the idea is we will take care of each other, grow and heal together. share our resources, skills and dreams. radically alter our relation to earth and people
True, but that's not what the discussion was about. Black kids are disproportionately poorer than white kids, and that's because they inherited inequalities from the past, which came about because of slavery and systematic racism.
What you are suggesting is a lingua franca, which is already the norm in multilingual countries. That's quite different from having a colonial language dominating over the others.