One of the things that #1619project has done is get me to reconsider parts of my life. My only (and very limited) experience with Black Americans prior to college was a bussing program for a few students at my high school.
At the time I knew were they were from-Roxbury I think-but it was a place I had never seen. MA, for all it's Dem blue politics, is strictly segregated.
I found the history of that program. 15,000 on the waiting list. Parents putting their kids on the list at birth. Have to make a bus at 5AM. Late bus is LATE. hinghamschools.org/academic-progr…
I wasn't very close to any of those kids, so I don't think I ever knew what they went through to get there.
Kind of crazy to see that the program is still going on, since that means in 2022 things are pretty much as segregated as when I left almost 40 years ago.
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