In today’s world, we are to embrace diversity in all aspects of our life. Diversity enhances all of our life experiences and lets us understand different races and cultures. Diversity. It’s a good thing. Except when a group excludes all other races except their own…<\/p>\n
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Now, that’s one racially diverse group there, isn’t it? Fooey.<\/p>\n
Fine, leave all of the white kids out… but there are other minorities that could be represented here and those children would be appreciative of this learning opportunity.<\/p>\n
Somehow I don’t think Wendell Scott would approve of making an educational group all of one race, no matter what the race is.<\/p>\n
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In today’s world, we are to embrace diversity in all aspects of our life. Diversity enhances all of our life experiences and lets us understand different races and cultures. Diversity. It’s a good thing. Except when a group excludes all other races except their own…<\/p>\n
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