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Ida Bae Wells
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For my first piece since I returned to @nytmag from book leave, I did something a bit unexpected. I interviewed @MeekMill about segregated schools, W.E.B. DuBois, trauma and the inhumanity of solitary confinement and parole. I am grateful for his candor.
Wish we could have published more of this interview. @MeekMill’s thoughfulness and piercing assessments of both trauma and mass incarceration’s inhumanity and link to slavery were so compelling. But we also talked about craft and how he perfects his work and sharpens his lyrics.
Like, he’s really an ethnographer even as he’s trying to work through his own pain and trauma. He knows he’s lucky for making it out. But it reminds of us all the talent we squander because we don’t value black children and black people.
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Ida Bae Wells
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I asked weeks ago when Joe Biden was going to have to answer for opposition to school deseg. Looks like the time has come. We can sum up so much with this quote arguing white people will become racist if their kids have to attend the type of schools black kids always have had to.
I mean, with no sense of irony whatsoever, he acknowledges/presumes black schools are inferior even as he opposed measures to ensure black children received an equal education. This is the argument of 8 of 10 white people today when they tell me why we can't integrate our schools
This is the ongoing illogic masquerading as pragmatism -- that rectifying the affects of racism is what causes racism, that black people's rights must be curbed in order to keep white people from hating them, even though the conditions of black people were caused by racism.
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Ida Bae Wells
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Did you ever hear of this little thing called racial apartheid that was visited upon the descendants of the enslaved and was not ended in all aspects of American life until1968? That allowed codified discrimination in housing, schools, public accommodations, employment, lending?
These people are still alive. These people are my father's generation. Many of them are not even elderly.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court actually has a name for this: It's called badges of slavery because black people uniquely suffered from these laws passed *only* because they descended from the enslaved.
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Ida Bae Wells
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So, this shock/surprise over Joe Biden's anti-school integration stance is...interesting in that it is neither shocking nor surprising. However, it does illuminate how successful white Northerners have been in fostering racial amnesia. washingtonpost.com/politics/biden…
Progressive white congressman in the North who supported every piece of civil rights legislation aimed at making the South behaved virulently opposed Northern civil rights efforts -- ie: the Fair Housing Act and school desegregation.
it's often forgotten that while the Civil Rights Act is lauded for making discrimination in public accommodations illegal, white Northern congressman tucked in a provision to bar bussing for school integration in the North unless by court order.
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