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skaqt t1_is9vvpq wrote

Reply to comment by Wagbeard in Accepted (2021) - A school in Louisiana is celebrated for putting traditionally underserved students into Ivy League colleges, but an investigation uncovers its charismatic founder's controversial methods (CC) [01:22:56] by thesecondfire

You mean like how Canada 'fixed' their Boarding Schools?

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Wagbeard t1_is9wqnx wrote

You're right but your government did the same stuff to your native demographic too to be fair. I'm talking about black people specifically. MLK liked Canada because we didn't have segregated black communities that your establishment exploits perpetually. The 'black' people in my neighborhood are just my neighbors and they go to the same schools as everyone else.

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sbsp13668 t1_isa2zha wrote

Not entirely true. Africville in Halifax was a segregated community that black people were forced to move to. I wouldn't be surprised if there were other major cities that had something similar in Canada. And, as for segregated schools, I remember when I was a kid hearing about the controversy of Toronto creating a school for black students, and it still exists: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/africentric-school-anniversary-1.5005262 However, at least Canadian colleges and universities don't have the same crazy acceptance policies for minorities as their American counterparts; which, as is shown in this documentary, do not set the students up for success.

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