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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones
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This explains so much. So. Much. Like folks who think discrimination against Irish was same as slavery. Folks who oppose affirmative action. Folks who think white people are the most discriminated against. Folks who think our biggest problem is class not race. On and on
I mean to acknowledge this means you have to acknowledge that black Americans were locked out of nearly every path to generating wealth. The money their labor produced. Land grants given to new European immigrants. GI Bills. Federally insured home loans. Quality public schools.
White-only suburbs. Union jobs. White-collar jobs. Public universities.
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What is little known is that it is freedmen and women who brought public education to the South. It is black Reconstruction legislatures that insisted a right to public education be put into the new constitutions required for Southern states to be readmitted to the Union.
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Prior to that, the white Southern elite had resisted public education even as universal free common schools were exploding across the South. The white elite did not believe in paying for poor white people's children to go to school or in a common good.
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Some people are asking me questions like this. I think schools that center the black experience and/or are truly representative of our multiracial nation are critical. I have never argued that integration is a few black kids going into white schools with white teachers/curriculum
I do think an important point here is that the parents interviewed are advocates, people who have the ability to exercise choice and not the parents I am writing about who have few options and are not choosing segregated/black schools but are being forced into them.
The segregated schools most black kids attend cannot send children to South Africa. They do not have middle-class black families in them. They do not even necessarily have black teachers.
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This story is kind of disgusting and shows a very clear bias. I’d bet no one who touched this story has had incarcerated family members. The villains in this government shutdown aren’t inmates getting a rare holiday meal of wings and tough steak. washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01…
Imagine thinking it’s cool to quote inmates happy that they got a decent meal while spending holidays away from family writing so in letters to family that officers are only supposed to be screening for safety reasons.
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