Comments on: 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s

By: angel

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By: tryrtty

tryrtty — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:38:00 +0000

Silentillusion1213 are you barack obama.

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[...] from all Texas high schools. If this approach creates racial diversity, it is only because of the persistent segregation in public schools. To diversify the approximately 15 percent of the class remaining, the admissions [...]

By: Lovekindnessspecial

Lovekindnessspecial — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:47:00 +0000

I agree with you and I am sheltered black girl. I did have a parent who did save up money an his parents had a little something and his house was paid for and he paid his dad back. I live now just paying taxes in that house of my grandpa. It makes a difference but, If you never try to find a way out you won’t. I lived in a middle class area, but you have to want the education an hey I’ve been in and out of college classes since 1991 and still going. stop blaming and start fighting for your own goals in life and then reach back and help someone else who can not see or don’t have the will to even try to make a better life for themselves or others look at the sucessful black stories all had to overcome something.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 05:29:00 +0000

Do
you know that there are still places IN THE US that treat ALL
minorities
like fucking second class citizens? You
probably don’t know about those places. I bet you’re one of
those people who think
that just because black people have gained a little compared to your
lot that we owe you a thank you and a “forget about it” for
all that you have done for us ungrateful, ignorant minorities.
Many of you feel that way I have come to find through socializing
with you. This country was built for white superiority and
certain laws make sure that it upholds this so called superiority.
Many white people don’t notice of-coarse because
the laws are made FOR YOU!! Why would you notice or care as long as
you aren’t being mistreated. It’s quite easy to turn a blind eye to
things that aren’t affecting you. Just as you didn’t choose to be
white we didn’t choose to be black or born in a country that hate the
very idea of any type of black affirmative action.
Whether you want to admit it or not or even believe it or not, black
people are still being treated as second class citizens and if
you don’t believe me simple compare our living conditions, our
schools, and our jobs. It is no coincidence that black people are
still at the bottom of the totem poll. And it’s not because we’re all
lazy and worthless either. We only make up 13% of America. Half of
that percent is locked up as soon as they are old enough to hold
their head high and have some pride about themselves. Half of whats
left is shot or killed by each other out of ignorance or by the
police out of ignorance. Half of what’s left is working 2 or 3 jobs
trying to make it out of the ghetto and whatever is left is on
welfare. It’s a ignorant cycle that just goes on and on no one is
trying to do anything about it. Those who know about the issue choose
to ignore it either cause it’s not them suffering or because it is no
longer them suffering and
others
are just mostly ignorant to what is going on and so choose to believe
the bullshit that they see and read in the media about how black
people are just the worst kind of people. We aren’t. Most of us are
just uneducated, because some of us have to drop out of school to get
jobs to help out our parents, and need a chance just a chance to be
raised in a stable environment , like most Caucasians are, and given
the opportunity to
thrive and flourish. I assure the if any children were
actually given a honest to God equal opportunity to succeed,
they would all make if they chose to do so. Most blacks are at a
disadvantage from birth simply because they were born black, but I
suppose that you will never understand that because you don’t really
care because our struggle for true equality don’t affect you other
than making most Caucasians feel like we have too many liberties.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 05:27:00 +0000

You’re
funny and absolutely correct.
Africans did sell each other. However what you failed to add in there
is that EUROPEANS, and not just the damn British, came over and
decided to also buy and sell slaves. Now the funny thing about this
is that well Africans, by European standards, didn’t know any better
because the majority of them knew nothing about any type of religion
that says that treating your fellow man indecently is, with out a
doubt, wrong. However, most EUROPEANS were Catholics which not only
means that they knew better, they also very much chose to ignore and
in most cases use their religion to justify what they were
doing…BUYING AND SELLING SLAVES. Now neither of them were correct
in their actions so don’t think that I am trying to justify the
actions of the Africans because I am not. However doing something out
of ignorance and doing something simply because you choose to, are
two very different things. I’m so tired of white people using that
bullshit excuse as a justification for what your ancestors did. And
before you get upset and find some other bull to say in response to
me, let me just say that I am not upset about what Caucasian’s
ancestors did to my ancestors. What I have a problem with is
the repercussions of
their actions. I won’t even go as far back as slavery to prove my
point. I’ll just go back 60yrs ago to JIM CROW DAYS. I chose 60yrs
because my mother is 60 and lived through that crock of utter
bullshit. Black people today are still suffering from that time when
we were all “separate but
equal”.

By: Alexiskstuart

Alexiskstuart — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:19:00 +0000

oh im sorry, did i DECIDE to be a white girl when i was born? yep i said lemme be a white girl just so i could piss minorities off and be expected to hang my head in shame my whole life just because of what my ancestors did… oh thats right there not my ancestors! my ancestors were living in ireland and russia at the time and most white people arent even related to the same people who enslaved black people back then because those people were the british and thats not all of europe! and its not like british people chose to enslave blacks out of all minorities, your “people” back then were tribes who were fighting each other and selling victems who survived the fights to the british for slaves. your own people gave you away as slaves! and im not saying what the british (not all white people) did was right but dont blame it on people alive today. and we wouldnt be helpless without blacks or any ethnicity except asians who are super smart and everybody knows that!

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Fri, 25 May 2012 16:33:16 +0000

[...] and overwhelmingly with other white students. These are segregation levels we have not seen since the 1950s. Back then, it took a landmark legal case, Brown v. Board of Education, which [...]

By: Rebecca Castle

Rebecca Castle — Wed, 23 May 2012 22:59:00 +0000

I wish it was mandatory for every person in the United States, all persons to work in an Emergency Room, a busy one for two years, your prejudice and indignation would go away. Everyone is on an even playing field, the patients and the workers, Doctors, nurses, aides, and all others have to work as a complete team to save lives and ease the suffering of all races, ages, genders. I think it would be good to see we all bleed, we all hurt, we all die and we all have the ability to love.

By: Jujube

Jujube — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:01:00 +0000

Today there there exists a strong argument FOR segregation. Blacks have made it their duty to be miserable blamers unwilling to accept their own role in making their plight in America. Violence towards caucasians and asians has become epidemic and this will be the cause of further segregation like in the jails of Los Angeles. Louis Farrakhan advocates an entire state for blacks, I think he is right.