Recent comments in /f/Newark

Jimmy_kong253 t1_j7mua3x wrote

I maybe in the minority opinion on this but I don't understand why you need a student club such as the black student union based on race in a public school in general meeting in a public school building. You can have it just have the meeting somewhere else because it causes division. If it's not a club based on a school class or a netural thing like sports or technology it shouldn't be held on school grounds

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DrixxYBoat t1_j7ls7zy wrote

Such a depressing situation. Newarks black vs latino war makes literally no sense considering both of our communities are very very similar when it comes to our values and beliefs.

I spent my middle school years in Plainfield, and the growing Latino population was never an issue for us kids.

The adults were annoyed because, "Plainfield used to be all black" but we as kids never had any beef and I cherish those days.

Maybe it's because we were dealing with Mexicans and Puerto Ricans as opposed to Portuguese, but tbh, I don't get why there's even a divide over there, why there's even a divide with the ironbound.

I don't know enough about this situation to claim both sides are the issue, but more than anything, I'm sad it's happening.

We have bigger issues at hand.

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Kalebxtentacion t1_j7lqibx wrote

When I was in central highschool last year, my school was able to do things for every race but mainly Hispanic and black history month. Both months both are important to the school, their is never racial tension. Even though Hispanics have no problem saying the N word to each other and black students. But I would imagine a largely Hispanic populated school to be like this but central is largely black but our Hispanic counterparts never felt uncared for. If your a central devil were equal

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