African American Focus Group
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African American Focus Group
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Quote Highlights
• This is an undercurrent of implicit biases that happen in the city .
• There are three words that I would use to describe the ethnic and racial relations as I observed them here in Arlington one it ’ s respectful tenuous and suspicious .
• And I would say that there is a lot of tension that is never discussed .
• So I would say that my personal experiences here have been terrible . I can ’ t really compare it to anybody else . But that ’ s just me personally growing up in Arlington and I feel like a lot of younger people as well can probably relate to a lot of things that we ’ ve seen and gone through growing up .
• It ’ s a cool place as long as you stay in your place , but once you get out of your place and you offend some people . That ’ s when you see all of the micro aggressions as well as physical aggression when you ’ re when they feel like you ’ re out of your place .
• We get the crumbs and at the last at the 11th hour In relationship to the amount of money that is out there being spent by the city . It doesn ’ t put a drop in the hat . What they allocate or award to African American business owners .
• Equity in education , not only equity , but because Arlington is D has a big push now to they ’ re doing lots of surveys and studies about how to level the playing field and I certainly applaud them for that , but it goes deeper than just what Arlington can do it . It ’ s about , you know , the textbooks , how they are presented , it ’ s about teacher bias . I ’ m a principal until I see it every day .
• I just want to say thanks for the opportunity to participate . This has been enlightening and I hope that our information and comments do not fall on deaf ears and that ’ s something actually positive and concretely comes out of this .
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