Empathy for Ernie “The Underdog” Lombardi

Image: Screenshot of a classroom session from “Why They Keep Making Black People Look Like Losers.“

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“If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.”

~ Alicia Keys (azquotes.com)

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Video | Why They Keep Making Black People Look Like Losers [4m 32s]

This video is based on an excerpt from “Dismantling America,” by Thomas Sowell | Why They Keep Making Black People Look Like Losers [4m 32s]

Related:

• Ernie Lombardi, Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Lombardi

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Ian Rowe: Why I Support True Diversity

Image: “Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for ALL Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their Pathway to Power” by Ian Rowe (Templeton Press). Source: Screen capture from “True Diversity: Ian Rowe’s Story.”

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On a Sunday evening in September 1977, 12-year-old Ian Rowe did something “unthinkable”: he challenged his parents.

His Queens, New York junior high school had become an epicenter for racial unrest because more Black families like Rowe’s were moving into his neighborhood, which was predominantly white at the time. The school board’s solution was to open a second school in a neighborhood with more white families.

All the white students were going to transfer to that new school, leaving Rowe’s junior high a virtually all-Black, segregated school. Rowe’s parents, on the presumption that the school with white students would be better, were going to transfer him too.

“Something about this just didn’t seem right…”

Read full article: “Ian Rowe: Why I Support True Diversity”(philanthropyroundtable.org)

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