Word: blacks
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Today's school system is 49 percent black, 26 percent Hispanic, 15 percent white and 9 percent Asian, essentially ensuring somewhat diverse schools regardless of the assignment plan, Payzant said...
Willie explained that since the vast majority of schools in Boston's largely still residentially-segregated black community were closed down in the 1970s, proximity preference means that for the most part, white children will be able to attend the schools of their choice in their own neighborhoods, neighborhoods which are predominantly white...
...This policy has made black and Latino youngsters wayfarers to roam the city to find a school that nobody else wants to go to," he said...
Sofen also thinks that this "New South," as he calls it, is so much better off just because there are black mayors in many of the cities and towns. Like most of the country today, Sofen measures progress by percentages of racial minorities in prominent positions. He looks at black men and women as numbers and not people...
Signature Shades: Ray-Ban's Predator 2, in 1997's Men in Black Price...