Finally Integrating Public Education Is All The Reparations We Need - Perdaily.com
Finally Integrating Public Education Is All The Reparations We Need
Finally integrating and raising the academic level of all our schools- public and private- is all the reparations we as a people would need for this country to finally reach its potential for ALL our people. As superb writer and intellect James Baldwin and many others have known for generations, an "educated people, of any color, are so extremely rare that it is unquestionably one of the first tasks of a nation to open all of its schools to all of its citizens."
We did this historically with the unprecedented opening of our schools early on in our country's history for our European "huddled masses yearning to be free." But what we didn't anticipate was that these once European downtrodden peasant dreamers would then turn around and do to Africans, Latinos, and other minorities, what had once been done to them in Europe- in aid of nurturing their own now inflated egos and feelings of superiority. They now saw themselves as the new American ruling class, even though they were now objectively and regrettably no different than the earlier European incarnation they and their ancestors had once despised, suffered under, and CONTINUE READING: Finally Integrating Public Education Is All The Reparations We Need - Perdaily.com
