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...while Sacramento approaches an ideal for integration, it certainly isn't paradise. Beneath the multicolored surface, the city's 407,018 inhabitants vacillate between racial harmony and ethnic tension. You see a Sikh casually strolling into a Mexican restaurant for takeout, an Eskimo and a white punk hanging out together downtown. But you also see black and Hispanic parents outraged because their kids' test scores lag behind those of whites and Asians in integrated schools. And you hear Anne Gayles-White, the N.A.A.C.P. chapter president, saying "There's still too much hatred and racism in a city like this...
...California at Davis professor of education and Sacramento resident. She believes that teachers and administrators stereotype students on the basis of race. There are plenty of examples-from the teacher who asked a Latino boy if his parents had jobs (his mother was a school principal) to the Mexican child in an advanced-placement class who was asked whether she was Asian (her classmates couldn't imagine that a Latina could perform so well). "The schools make assumptions along class lines about which parents care and which don't, and parents and children begin to read those signs very early...
DIED. DOLORES OLMEDO PATINO, 88, prickly art patron who housed the world's biggest collection of works by Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, his wife; in Mexico City. Rivera willed his and Kahlo's works to Mexico, leaving Olmedo Patino, a former Rivera model and friend, in charge of the trust controlling them. Though she founded a museum dedicated to the couple, she drew criticism for her derision of Kahlo (who, she said, was famous only because of her marriage to Rivera) and her tight rein on the artists' works and archives, which she kept for long periods...
...especially hates people thinking that Tex-Mex foods such as fajitas and cooked bell peppers are Mexican...
Over a plate of piping hot chicken nachos at the downtown shop, José Velasquez, a native Mexican, explains his loyalty to Real Taco...