Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The Normalcy of School Segregation [It Matters If You're Black Or White] | The Jose Vilson

The Normalcy of School Segregation [It Matters If You're Black Or White] | The Jose Vilson:


The Normalcy of School Segregation [It Matters If You're Black Or White]

You’re a firm believer that we as a country has made tremendous progress since the Jim Crow laws. We have a Black president whose education policy advances the last white one’s education’s policy. Black people are all over TV, and Black man can kiss White women on TV without much ado. This country gets closer to a tipping point where people of color as a whole eclipse the dominant culture in population. Oh yeah, and the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954 desegregated schools and our public schools only have divisions in class, not race.
Except it does, and anyone with a finger on the pulse of these schools sees the segregation loud and clear.
A combination of school defunding for busing and magnet programs and redlining, a practice that limits certain services from reaching specific areas of a district, have made our schools more segregated than pre-Brown, but you didn’t have to tell me that. Most of my friends understood that, and have lived with the separate and unequal