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2026-07-11 05:59 UTC
And yes, I'm talking about racist over-policing and pretrial detention of innocent Black students.
There are ~2 million Black people in NYC, and at the peak of "stop and frisk" there were 600,000+ stops by armed cops, over 85% of which targeted Black and Afro Latino New Yorkers.
In my dystopian example, if I said that you could increase Asian academic performance, decrease chronic absenteeism, and increase Asian college attendance, by removing the ICE agents we have posted in middle schools, it would make sense.
IRL, cops in middle schools, decrease Black graduation rates🤷🏿♂️
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 2026-07-11 06:00
Suppose that ICE scaled up their anti-Asian efforts, to the point that half of all Asian New Yorkers spent time in an immigration detention center *while innocent* before they reached their 23rd birthday. Do you think that this would have an impact on Asian academic performance? Or no impact? London and NYC are similar cities with some important differences: London does not have nearly the same level of anti-Black racism that NYC does. It's not close. Asian students in both London and NYC excel in school. How would you guess that Black students in London perform relative to white ones?