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Resegregation in the American South
Posted on 4/19/14 at 11:30 am
Posted on 4/19/14 at 11:30 am
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Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the schools in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, show how separate and unequal education is coming back.
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Posted on 4/19/14 at 11:34 am to TejasHorn
what a crock of #$%# !
they say 'While most of these schools are in the Northeast and Midwest, some 12 percent of black students in the South now attend such schools'
but they do the story on Tuscaloosa...those damn Southerners are racists! let's pass some more laws that apply ONLY to them (voting rights, deseg etc)
they say 'While most of these schools are in the Northeast and Midwest, some 12 percent of black students in the South now attend such schools'
but they do the story on Tuscaloosa...those damn Southerners are racists! let's pass some more laws that apply ONLY to them (voting rights, deseg etc)
Posted on 4/19/14 at 11:46 am to TejasHorn
Would you politely do a comparison of Boston or Chicago School Systems and report back ?
Posted on 4/19/14 at 11:55 am to TejasHorn
I will not even bother with looking at it. What city hosts the MOST segregated public schools in America? Drumroll please, CHICAGO ILLINOIS!!
Posted on 4/19/14 at 11:56 am to rb
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Would you politely do a comparison of Boston or Chicago School Systems and report back ?
I'm like
But I have a feeling it will be more like....
*crickets*
Posted on 4/19/14 at 12:00 pm to TejasHorn
Interesting read.
Anyone notice the generational change? Her name is Melissa, but she named her daughter D'Leisha....who attends a mostly black school and has limited college prospects.
Anyone notice the generational change? Her name is Melissa, but she named her daughter D'Leisha....who attends a mostly black school and has limited college prospects.
This post was edited on 4/19/14 at 12:04 pm
Posted on 4/19/14 at 12:01 pm to TejasHorn
Posted on 4/19/14 at 12:14 pm to Ole War Skule
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some 12 percent of black students in the South
That's not exactly a huge percentage. It means 7 times as many black students in the South attend integrated schools. That is the exact opposite of re-segregating.
Posted on 4/19/14 at 12:15 pm to texashorn
To be fair to the Southerners, New York, Illinois, Michigan, and New Jersey are also segregated as frick.
I think I read somewhere the least segregated states were California, Texas, Delaware, and Nevada. In general, the West sh!t on the North and South in terms of desegregation.
I think I read somewhere the least segregated states were California, Texas, Delaware, and Nevada. In general, the West sh!t on the North and South in terms of desegregation.
Posted on 4/19/14 at 12:16 pm to TejasHorn
There is not a loving and responsible parent - Black or White - in this nation that won't find a way NOT to send their tender child into some heathen school that reflects the cultural ROT that Great Society/Progressive policy has foist upon this nation. They had just soon die.
Show me an all Black Private School where exceptional character and high academic standards prevailed...and Public School White folk would be lined up at the door.
Show me an all Black Private School where exceptional character and high academic standards prevailed...and Public School White folk would be lined up at the door.
Posted on 4/19/14 at 12:17 pm to rb
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Would you politely do a comparison of Boston or Chicago School Systems and report back ?
The Boston School system seems to be fine but the Chicago one isn't.
Posted on 4/19/14 at 12:17 pm to texashorn
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image from Boston, Mass., from 1976
They say an picture is worth a thousand words......that picture is worth a million.
Posted on 4/19/14 at 12:17 pm to TejasHorn
Just to make Rex's head explode...
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how the words white supremacy were written on Alabama’s Democratic Party ballot
Posted on 4/19/14 at 12:19 pm to texashorn
Yeah...this is bullshite. As if this problem has only ever existed in the South.
My maternal grandparents grew up in a small town in Illinois. There was a law at that time that stated blacks were not allowed inside the city limits after dark and it was strictly enforced.
My maternal grandparents grew up in a small town in Illinois. There was a law at that time that stated blacks were not allowed inside the city limits after dark and it was strictly enforced.
Posted on 4/19/14 at 12:46 pm to RollTide1987
Of course the only way to fix this problem is to provide low income housing in predominately white neighborhoods to integrate the black population back into the school.
Posted on 4/19/14 at 12:55 pm to beebefootballfan
read something recently that said New York's school system was the most segregated in the country.
Posted on 4/19/14 at 1:05 pm to HonoraryCoonass
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......that picture is worth a million.
The Southies of Boston were massively fomenting riots in the streets and in the schools when the busing of students was put into place. One of my friends in the Air Force was a Mick from the Southie area and his eyes would bug out of his head when a bit of news about the area was in the forefront of a paper or show.
Posted on 4/19/14 at 1:14 pm to texashorn
Posted on 4/19/14 at 1:17 pm to TejasHorn
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Students with D’Leisha’s grades and tough honors coursework often come home to mailboxes stuffed with glossy college brochures. But most days, nothing showed up in the mail for her, and no colleges had come calling. She had taken the ACT college-entrance exam twice already. The first time she scored a 16, the second time a 17. Her mother’s alma mater, the University of Alabama, expects a 21, the national average. Many four-year colleges will not even consider students who score below an 18.
... then she scored a 16 on her third try.
What does that tell any rationally thinking person? For one, it tells that the high grades and honors courses D’Leisha took at her high school were a total joke that gave her a false sense of security about her future, but in reality left her woefully unprepared for college, likely without any type of job skills, and seriously considering joining the military, oftentimes the last resort that has become a joke in and of itself, but that's another story.
Instead of rooting out the false sense of security given to students of Tuscaloosa Central High School, which means running off their administrators and teachers who allow this to happen, and holding the parents accountable who allow their children such substandard education... some liberal woman with a hyphenated last name blames whitey, and The Atlantic magazine picks it up fawningly.
Same song, different verse. I am sick of it.
Posted on 4/19/14 at 1:25 pm to rb
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Would you politely do a comparison of Boston or Chicago School Systems and report back ?
Here are a few:
New York schools suffer from worst racial segregation of any U.S. state, city classes get poor marks for diversity: report
The Real Reasons New York has the Country’s Most Segregated Schools
The Nation's Most Segregated Schools Aren't Where You'd Think They'd Be
If I wanted to, I could get pissed off at the progressive elitists who automatically assume that the South is still the epicenter of racial hardship, but it's more fun to laugh at their ignorance of what's happening outside their own back door.
Based on the way government schools are set up, by geographic location in most instances, and the fact that some levels of segregation happen on their own (Chinatown, Little Italy, etc, in many metropolitan areas), is it really surprising that folks who share the same backgrounds (racial, ethnic, or otherwise) are usually found in the same schools?
If and/or when it legitimately happens, discriminatory segregation should absolutely be done away with. But if it's because people choose to be around others like themselves (White, Asian, Black, Greek, Italian, Latino; Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Muslim, Jewish; SEC, ACC, Big Ten), the media needs to get over it.
(That last bit was thrown in because the media obviously can't think of similarities and diversity beyond skin color)
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