After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools. 70 years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.
In this town, one school keeps kids divided.
(Published May 2024)
In this town, one school keeps kids divided.
(Published May 2024)
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They have just as much—if not more—of a right to live there as the people who subjugated them.
They should be lauded for their bravery and fighting for their rights.
Plus, not everyone has the means or capability to just leave their home.
I admire the subjugated, oppressed, and marginalized people in both past and present who take a stand.
Central Atlanta is NOW a good place to be a black American, but everywhere else below DC....no. I left my country because of racism. So......I'm cool with expressing that opinion. Be well!
Avoiding strangers used to help humans survive, so natural selection rewarded racism.
The #oligarchy uses that lizard brain function to divide and control the poor.
Public schools fix lizard brains. So the rich want private (segregated) schools.
The rich are promoting white supremacy to delude poor whites into not uniting with poor minorities to upset the status quo.
At a minimum, we agree on spoiling our cats.
White kids went to public elementary schools in our neighborhood & some minorities were bussed in.
Then a majority of white kids transferred to private schools for middle & high school.
Only a handful of us went to the public schools in the minority community.
When busing to achieve racial balance was a thing, lots of religious schools sprang up. That was the 70s and here were are today