"Race War in High School" is about what the Civil Rights movement did to Lane High School, a New York academic high school that was already integrated pre-Civil Rights but got much more black in the late 1960s.
Very good case study about ethnic cleansing that drove white flight.
The book opens with a group of black students breaking a classroom window with a brick, then beating the teacher and lighting him on fire after he confronted them about it:
Teachers were taught not to confront black students and let them do whatever they wanted:
Black students repeatedly attacked white students and teachers with weapons in race riots:
White teacher raped by a black student in the hallway:
Gangs of blacks roamed the hallways and attacked white students and teachers.
Mobs of black students attacked and spit on a white teacher who mistakenly thought that his seemingly-good personal relationship with many of them would save him from racial violence.
The NYT, of course, portrayed efforts by the author to solve this (by sending some of the black students somewhere else) as a racist plot.
After the burning of a professor made it impossible for officials to ignore Lane's problems any longer, they were officially blamed on overcrowding.
Lane was already integrated in 1962, with a 28.7% black student body, but was rezoned to be majority black in subsequent years.
For some reason, truancy increased in direct proportion to how nonwhite the student body was. Who could've seen that coming?
Blacks resented whites for doing better in school.
By 1968, racial violence (black attacks on whites) were commonplace, drugs were rampant, and little education could actually happen.
It was only four years from the 1963 "integration plan" by the school board until the total collapse described above. White parents fled to private schools and suburban districts.
"Anti-poverty" programs, funded by USG, opposed attempts to remove the worst troublemakers from Lane.
The author laments that the "responsible black community" never said a word about black attacks on whites. A cynic might say that there is no "responsible black community"; there are a few responsible blacks but all organized BN groups/leaders are anti-white/pro-ethnic cleansing.
Judge Jack B. Weinstein (🤔) ruled that transferring violent students was violating their right to due process, and instead imposed sweeping new regulations on suspensions, making them much harder to impose. Liberal pro-criminal judiciary very much in effect in 1968 New York.
In 1969, people feared opposing black racial violence/ethnic cleansing for fear of being labeled racists. Familiar. Kahane was one of the few exceptions.
A handful of anti-union, pro-black-violence teachers accused the union of being reactionary and anti-black (of course).
As one would expect of unionized NYC teachers, they tended to be very liberal and pro-Civil Rights, with some even marching in demonstrations. This did not save them from black attacks or charges of racism, as these were based on racial rather than ideological hostility.
As Lane became more black ("reverse segregation") academic quality plummeted...
...and extracurriculars, sports, other student organizations, and parent groups also collapsed. Shades of Putnam here, as diversity destroys social trust.
The best students at Lane had come from a Jewish apartment complex. Their parents united to get said complex rezoned into a whiter school (which curiously enough, didn't have the same issues despite far more severe overcrowding) after the 1968 race riots and attacks.
NY state legislature passed an anti-busing law banning bussing students from one district to another to achieve racial balance. Courts threw it out.
Lawlessness in previously white, middle class schools increased in direct proportion to the number of "bussed in" students.
The district superintendent refused to use police against black students attacking whites, but was happy to use them against white parents demonstrating against said attacks. Anarcho-tyranny.
School's response to black violence was rewarding them with black studies programs. Militant blacks proceeded to take over said black studies programs and tear down the American flag, saying that it was not their nation. Ideological convergence with Gregory Hood or Jared Taylor.
On Oct 31, 1969, blacks took over the entire school and began attacking whites en masse. They then attacked the police (who successfully herded them away) and chased white students home. Some of the white students defended themselves by firing guns over their pursuer's heads.
Six or seven white girls were raped during the riot. Mayor wanted it covered up and mostly succeeded.
Federal "anti-poverty" organizations colluded with black students to blame the riot on the police, claiming (falsely) that the cops had attacked a black girl. How many similar lies were told in that era?
The black community, from politicians to teachers, overwhelmingly supported the rioters, and accused white staff of "systematically excluding minority group children from their right to an education."
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