New York Times: Beacon High School Students Protest Half White Student Body

It would be interesting to know what percentage of the “White students” at Beacon High School are actually Jewish.

New York Times:

“Beacon’s student population is about half white, a striking anomaly in a public school system that is nearly 70 percent black and Hispanic. Beacon is not a specialized high school — it has no admissions test — but its highly competitive admissions process requires students to assemble a portfolio of middle school work, admissions essays and high standardized test scores and grades. It is one of the most selective schools in New York: Last year, there were over 5,800 applications for 360 ninth-grade seats.

Beacon has a higher percentage of black and Hispanic students than Stuyvesant — about 32 percent compared to 4 percent at the specialized school — but also a higher percentage of white students, fewer Asian students and a lower percentage of students living in poverty. The school’s parent-teacher organization raised over $685,000 for the school last year, according to data released on Monday. …

“You have privilege. It’s not your fault, it’s the system’s fault. But we have to work together to change that system,” Carmen said she tells her peers.”

Forward:

“A lot of us are really concerned with what Israel is doing,” said junior Matt Klass, who is Jewish. “I think there is some disparity in how the parents feel and how the students feel.”

Klass added that a large percentage of the student body was Jewish, but more left-leaning and sympathetic to Palestinians and a two-state solution. …”

There is nothing resembling Jim Crow at Beacon High School. This is nothing more than yet another little outburst of budding wokeness.

BTW, there was never anything wrong with “Jim Crow of the North.” Whites should be allowed to have their own schools. It makes no sense to have multiracial schools in light of racial differences. Liberalism and its failed project of integration is the real problem. It has long since crossed the threshold of becoming an explicitly anti-White project of dispossession.