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Ida Bae Wells
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I was lucky enough to be on the best podcast in America to discuss “busing.” Listen if you can.
The archival tape in this episode is amazing. The Daily staff are just exemplary story tellers and it was truly my honor to work with you all.
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Ida Bae Wells
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So, here it is. If you follow me on here, if you know me in real life, then you know I'm obsessed with the year 1619 & how the start of slavery in America has shaped everything in our society. So, in Feb. I pitched to @NYTmag a project to examine, in this 400th year, the legacy.
@NYTmag What began as an idea to devote an entire issue of @NYTmag to commemorating this tragic 400th anniversary examining the modern-day legacy had turned into a project unlike any other in the history of the @nytimes.
@NYTmag @nytimes On Aug. 18th, @nytimes and @NYTmag will publish an entire issue of the magazine, an entire special section of the magazine, a section of our kids section, and full digital package all dedicated to examining a date as important to this country as the year 1776.
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Ida Bae Wells
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This is damning and makes all the more calculating @NYCMayor’s constant refrain that there’s little he can do about school segregation because housing segregation is so entrenched.
But, also, very predictable. Fair housing groups have along fought residential preferences as maintaining segregation.
But I think of everything I saw in this article this was the most damning. Poor black people are simply choosing to live in areas of concentrated disadvantage, crime, food deserts and low-performing schools because: Segregation is a choice.
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Ida Bae Wells
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I turned my frustration about coverage of "busing" when we really mean desegregation into a history. Some truths: Busing was wildly successful in the South. The myths you've heard aren't true. Northern racism = to Southern. It wasn't the bus, it was us. nytimes.com/2019/07/12/opi…
Subbing out the word busing for desegregation, then and now, is powerful propaganda tool that gives the veneer of racial innocence to explicitly racially motivated actions or inactions.
The white veneration of the neighborhood school vanished if lots of black kids lived nearby.
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