Segregation is a government policy that forcibly separates races that would normally intermix. When races are separated because of voluntary housing patterns it is called life.
I’ve known several white people who moved to a new school district from houses they sold at a loss. Their children were being assaulted by blacks, sometimes daily. One, has a son who is not only white but a genius. The boy had to be escorted by a teacher to and from the bus stop and had to sit near the driver to prevent attacks. The son recently graduated top of his class in a much larger but primarily white school.
I pity parents who have to deal with today’s schools.
The segregation is the result of the urban colonization by a black subculture that chose to live in isolation from America
Where’s the “Not This S**t Again!?” guy?
I do not believe this for a minute, people live where they want to live as long as they can afford it. I live in a small town where there are no black people. If I wanted to sell my house, I'd sell to whomever had the green backs and I believe that almost any seller would do the same.
Just another way of playing the race card - it never ends.
Segregation exists because blacks and Latinos purposely choose to live in areas where they will be in the majority. It doesn't matter how bad the crime rate is or that the schools there are just pit stops on the way to jail. Blacks and Latinos will choose 95%+ of the time to live near others of their race.
I have tried to talk sense to many of these people and they wont listen. There are apartment complexes in the suburbs that would put their kids in some of the best schools in the county, but they are not interested, and will only look for areas to live that are basically war zones.
Stop screwing, drinking, drugging, and thugging. Get some strong black men teaching and get the little maggots to sit down, shut up and learn. It's not their color it their damned victim mentality. They are victims of themselves. God as my witness I am not sure how much more of this BS I can stand.
It is natural for people to want to be with people who are like them.
I’ve got a bunch of black friends. They are just like me (that is, like the majority culture in this country). Same culture, same goals, same behavior. They are just people with dark skin.
Then there are inner city blacks who refuse to be like me. They don’t speak English, they are unprovokedly violent, they do not honor hard work (or life for that matter). They are a separate inferior culture that destroys whatever it contacts.
I will NEVER live close by to those of the inner city culture. They have made themselves enemies to my way of life, why would I want to be near them?
And so the whites and asians flee the cities to the freedom of the surburbs, leaving the inner city culture to rot the cities from the heart. And then the blacks complain about having unequal schools etc. Well when you chase the best and brightest away, you get stuck with whatever’s left.
Thanks God we are still free enough to move. Else our only option would be to start shooting and not stop until that enemy culture is no more.
“90 percent minority or more”
That word they keep using...
Funny how Asians, a minority in this country, do as well or better than their peers in school. Many colleges now deliberately discriminate against Asian students because there are "too many" of them for the social engineer types.
I wonder if family culture has anything to do with it? Blacks would likely have done as well if the Government hadn't stepped in and "helped" them and thus psychologically crippled them into a permanent dependency class. Now having broken Humpty Dumpty, how can a dependency culture be made whole again?
” The report urged, among other things, deeper research into housing segregation, which is a “fundamental cause of separate-and-unequal schooling.””
Let’s conduct an experiment in New York City where progressives believe these studies. Forcibly redistribute people to ensure a racial balance and income distribution reflective of the city in every apartment building and housing project in the city. Move families from Motts Haven and Hunts Point in the Bronx over to 740 Park Avenue and force the dislocated billionaires and millionaires to move over to the apartments in the Bronx. White progressive billionaires can live in luxurious apartments, or decayed multifamily buildings, side by side with minority fourth generation welfare recipients.
Likewise redistribute the children around the city schools including private schools to achieve racial balance and ensure the income distribution is reflective of the city as a whole.
To make the great experiment a success, let the academics at Harvard and Yale determine what a living wage should be in in the city. Forcibly take the wealth of the rich and redistribute it to the lower classes so they have a living wage. At the same time prohibit the billionaires and millionaires from spending more than the living wage on food, clothing, shelter and discretionary items. Let Paul Krugman select a panel of academics and thinkers to work with him to make all of the arbitrary relocation and income redistribution decisions so we can be sure the experiment is conducted properly and fairly.
Run the largest progressive social experiment in history for five years and measure what happens. I should be enlightening for the participants and the observers.
the changes are troubling because they show some minority students receive poorer educations than white students and Asian students, who tend to be in middle-class schools.
That is not true: they get the same education opportunities as others: they are simply less prone to take advantage of it: there is not a difference in curriculum or any other “opportunity”.
I never went to school with a “person of color” from kindergarten straight through college.
I don’t think I missed a damn thing. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Well Mr Orfield what is your answer?
Should the Government force blacks or latinos to move from the enclaves in which they CHOOSE to live? Should their children be forcibly bused out of those areas to “white schools”?
Blacks tend to want to live in Democrat controlled areas. These happen often to be inner city areas.Will we now force people to live where they chose not to live?
UN Agenda 21 has the answer. Abolish private property, conduct a campaign of rural cleansing in the name of returning the land to its "natural state," and force all the white racists into government high-rise containment facilities on both coasts.
The government will decide where you live and what you do for a living. It's the only way to check "white privilege." And if that doesn't work, maybe concentration camps will teach them their proper place.
“...more than half of black students attend schools where 90 percent or more are minority. “
Uh...doesn’t that make them the majority? They’re not a minority if they’re in the majority.
At the same time, there’s been a demographic change in public schools. Between 1968 and 2011, the number of Hispanic students in the public school system rose 495 percent, while the number of black students increased by 19 percent and the number of white students dropped 28 percent, according to the Education Department.
Forty years ago I remember seeing Alabama Gov. George Wallace on TV standing at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in a symbolic attempt to block two black students from enrolling at the school.
In the natural course of events we have or are drifting depending on one’s POV back to segregation of the races. Who’d have thunk it. Why do all the government solutions worked so well in theory but never in the “real” world. I’m sure the media will say it’s time to find and prosecute those “white segregationists” who have been hiding all this time and pass some new laws to re-establish desegregation among the minorities.
As far as government education is concerned, I’m with what Bobby Jindall has advocated. Let the states give them vouchers, so that these minorities can choose the better private schools or the education they want. Let the crappy government schools die a natural death if they don’t improve the quality of their education. Get away from affirmative action and let the best schools enroll students by academic qualifications, not numbers. Get away from teaching to screwed-up government curricular, tests, and grading standards. Allow government schools to promote religion if they want.
Those minorities that “want to be educated” should be entitled to find the best schools for their qualifications and pursue an education in the career of their choice. If they fail academically, then so be it. Not everybody can be a doctor or a rocket scientist or a plumber or an auto mechanic. Some are so talented they could sell ice to an Eskimo, be a movie or rock star, or a sports legend without a formal education. And some are just plain stupid. I believe the John Wayne quote about life being harder if you’re stupid is fact.
As far as government housing and other areas of government control are concerned, I’m sure somebody else has some better ideas than the socialist bureaucrats in Washington.
Pardon me while I try to find my flame retardant jock strap.
If you read the article it seems the implied solution to segregated schools is to prevent segregated housing patterns. I’m sure that will entail more section 8 housing, $0 down o% low payment mortgage assistance,and soon to be followed by a program of forced “ willing buyer willing seller” at a “fair” government approved price.
So, how’s that forced busing thing working out for ya?