[blackgirldev]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-06-07-980607...

Speaking of primary, elementary level perspective…

The school in question is where I went prior to its closing. After I graduated, white families decided to close a very new, nice school because they just didn’t want their kids among black students.

Even where there is money and great support, whites just don’t want to have any funding to go to black kids without their say-so.

It will never be solved. The hate is too deep. My old neighborhood had to resort to lengthy legal proceedings to get what they already paid for.

This is why affirmative action is necessary. The whites on the board closed the school because they wanted control.

Does anyone see how totally messed up this situation is and how it highlights the reality of deeply ingrained racism? Even middle class blacks who are not poverty level and not asking for free lunches can’t get a break. They bought and paid for a modern school, watched white people run away to other communities then forced the blacks to be bussed to the white school where the whites could allocate taxes their government controlled.

Not related but interesting: This is also where Shonda Rhimes, famous writer/producer of Grey’s Anatomy, grew up.

[daddylongstroke]

I went to an all-black public school after my family moved to the US in a Chicago "suburb" overrun by gang activity and crack houses (yep, my sister and I were the only white kids in the whole school). Most of the teachers were black, and upper-middle class, none that I knew of living anywhere near the neighborhood where the school was (down the block from me). I once asked a younger teacher who would frequently mention her kids during classroom "lectures" why they never visit her during the school day. She sheepishly replied that they go to private school. This was around '92-'93. A few years later the school district put out a poll of the teachers where a couple of the questions were focused on if the teachers' kids (if any) went to school in the same building where the teachers taught, and if not, did they go to public or private school. Something like 58% of the teachers sent their kids to private schools outside of their own area. :-/

[dcow]

Right I agree this is deeply fucked and I think we’re saying basically the same thing about how problematic the primary schooling politics and funding setup is. We’ve seen the same.. atrocities. We just disagree that AA is effective at solving this deeply ingrained racist behavior. I’d rather see laws and policy that e.g. evenly distribute school funding to prevent racist neighborhood dynamics. We need to attack and expose this bullshit at its roots.