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Yesterday Dana Goldstein took the occasion of MLK day to note a troubling fact:
American schools are more segregated by race and class today than they were on the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, 43 years ago. The average white child in America attends a school that is 77 percent white, and where just 32 percent of the student body lives in poverty. The average black child attends a school that is 59 percent poor but only 29 percent white. The typical Latino kid is similarly segregated; his school is 57 percent poor and 27 percent white.
Overall, a third of all black and Latino children sit every day in classrooms that are 90 to 100 percent black and Latino.
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Richard Baker| 1.18.11 @ 11:41AM
When I was a teacher here in Florida, I observed that black students sat together in class, at lunch, in the library, and while waiting for the bus. Since the "black leadership" and the liberal enablers tell these kids that they have no future in America, it's no wonder that segregation is on the rise. Yet, I think it was Muhummad Ali who said, " Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat” when asked what he thought of Africa after he fought George Foreman in Zaire.
Red Phillips | 1.18.11 @ 4:39PM
"Since the "black leadership" and the liberal enablers tell these kids that they have no future in America, it's no wonder that segregation is on the rise."
Mr. Baker, the issue is not in general blacks seeking out segregated schools if that is what you are suggesting. The issue is whites fleeing to largely segregated (by virtue of georgraphy) schools.
Pete| 1.18.11 @ 12:09PM
Clearly, what we need is more overpaid, unaccountable public school administrators, right, Dept of Ed? Public education in the US, for the most part, amounts to thinly disguised taxpayer fraud. And as with most liberal directed social "programs," it disadvantages most those it purports to help the most.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.18.11 @ 12:24PM
If they were integrated it wouldn't make any difference. Public education is the result of central economic planning and central economic planning always fails.
gsr| 1.18.11 @ 12:26PM
The whole "white/black" dynamic is soon to become moot, as American children and the American population becomes more and more Latino, due to unending, mass immigration from south of the border.
To look at it another way, both white and black kids are American; kids of illegal aliens are NOT Americans, neither are their parents.
Enforce the borders, enforce immigration laws and deport illegal aliens (by the millions) ..... or, the country will not continue to exist as a proud, strong, independent nation. It will merely be a loose polyglot, multi-lingual nation "region". Actually, scratch "multi-lingual" and "polyglot".
We will become Latino. Period.
Tooady| 1.18.11 @ 12:36PM
Given the appalling numbers of single parent families among blacks and Latinos it is easy to see why these numbers are what they are. I live in a suburban middle class neighborhood where two incomes are required to maintain the household. As such, black and latino families are few and the schools are just reflecting the local demographics.
Derek Leaberry| 1.18.11 @ 12:56PM
Having been put through the busing programs in 70s Prince George's County, MD(suburban DC), I am not surprised that so many people wish to flee chaotic and uncivilized schools. There is a reason for re-segregation but I am sure Mr. Lawler's liberal presumptions won't allow him to acknowledge what the reason is.
CalMark| 1.18.11 @ 1:58PM
During ROTC training in July 1990, the black (not yet known as "African American") students very pointedly separated themselves from us whites.
Two black drill sergeants, both born ca. 1960, flew into a rage about it one day. They demanded an immediate change, having marched right up and started screaming, "What is this, segregation?"
They were screaming at their fellow blacks. Who listened and obeyed, but being the product of leftie colleges propaganda, did so with extremely bad grace.
That was the first, last, and only time I have ever seen blacks take on this pernicious form of self-segregation.
Years later, on active duty, every minority ethnic and racial group seemed to hang out together, excluding "outsiders," often viciously with hostile barriers like speaking a foreign language among themselves on duty.
Whites seemed to be the only ones not interested in segregation. Sorry, lefties--another P.C. myth bites the dust.
tatosian| 1.18.11 @ 7:04PM
Same same Viet Nam.
Yesterday Brutally Honest ( http://www.brutallyhonest.org/.....ffend.html ) took the occasion of MLK day to note a troubling fact:
"the statue of George Washington was covered up, "so as not to offend anyone" attending the King day celebration on the state house steps."
What is it that would prompt the NAACP, a mainstream organization, to hide the image of George Washington so as not to offend their rally goers?
Mightn't those sorts of actions, or rather the philosophy behind the NAACP's actions, help explain why, as Goldstein laments, " a third of all black and Latino children sit every day in classrooms that are 90 to 100 percent black and Latino."?
Will implying that parents who have worked and sacrificed to provide the best education for their kids are de facto segregationists eliminate the divisive influence of the NAACP's philosophy?
If " a third of all black and Latino children sit every day in classrooms that are 90 to 100 percent black and Latino." is a recipe for disaster, shouldn't Goldstein be holding the parents of those kids accountable for a large portion of that disaster?
Or does the NAACP's philosophy absolve those parents of all responsibility for the current state of affairs.