Our schools are part of that racist system. Our schools are racist. They can’t not be.
, the practice by lenders of denying loans to borrowers based on the location of the property for which they sought credit .many of the neighborhoods negatively impacted by the practice remain economically depressed
to this day. Which means schools in those areas, inhabited largely by Black folks, are also underfunded, which means a significant percentage of Black children are not given the same opportunities as the white kids ten minutes down the road who live in more expensive neighborhoods, neighborhoods that were always given the benefit of the doubt when it came to credit because the residents of those neighborhoods were white.
I am a learning-obsessed, social justice-loving, bookworm freelance writer whose laptop runs Google searches upwards of 14 hours per day, and I can barely keep up. Yes, people need to make time to learn. But also, if our schools taught the truth about racism—the whole, real, dirty truth—we wouldn’t have to tell racist Lisa to “go google” theso she can learn how it unfairly incarcerated millions of Black men for the express purpose of preventing them from voting, because Lisa would already know.
How do you dismantle the racist system that continues to underfund schools largely populated by children of color when the people with the power to do the dismantling haven’t even been taught the history of that racist system—indeed haven’t even been taught it exists? How do you have a conversation about defunding police with a person who honestly thinks ourand criminal justice system are on everyone’s side equally because the education they received coupled with their lived experience tells...
We have to fix education—what we teach, how we teach it, and how we fund it. If we don’t, it’s going to be almost impossible to fix the rest of it.
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