I want white folks in Connecticut suburbs to make a New Year's resolution: recognize that if you live in a municipality that gets its core services (governance, hospitals, social services) from a nearby city, you are benefiting from a system of economic and racial segregation...
It does not matter that you didn't build it. It does not matter that you felt your only choices were the "good" (mostly white) segregated schools or the "bad" (mostly Black and Latinx) segregated schools. You are on the happy end of a system built to maintain that divide.
If you don't actively fight it while it advances your material interests, you are complicit in it. Resolve to do something more than put up a BLM yard sign or give your kids an antiracist education. Demand that your elected officials advocate for redrawing school districts.
Tell candidates that regionalism and redistricting are make-or-break issues for you and vote that way. When you have the opportunity to send your kids to truly diverse schools (including when choosing where you live), take them. Your white kids will be fine.
I'm six kinds of tired of these Bob Stefanowski-ass Connecticut people insisting on every solution for our cities' woes except the obvious one, because they're scared to put their white kids in a Black school. Do better.
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