Get comfortable being the outlier.
Vishnu Rajan East Fishkill, NY Most of my life, I’ve been an outlier. I was one of 10 non- whites in my graduating high school...
A representation of society as a whole.
Ryan Owen Milwaukee, WI The problems we see in our schools are a result of the bigger problems that are acceptably in grained in our...
Still Lifting the Veil of Ignorance
George Greene Atlanta, GA In Tuscaloosa and places like it across the resegregating South, we are being forced to fight a battle that seemingly cannot...
I dropped out! White flight city.
Theresa Fichter Council Bluffs, IA Council Bluffs, IA in the early eighties was mostly white. Middle class and drugs and alcohol was a problem in...
Colorblindness spreads, reinforces American racist history
Cynthia McCullough Port Orchard, WA Race studies student. Americans seem to think that being colorblind is a solution when in fact it is a tool...
Education will bring “justice for all”!
Ann Altman New York City, NY “Liberty and justice for all”? Not until every child receives a good education.
White flight and racism trump integration.
Robert Robillard Roanoke, VA I teach at a white flight private school that now aims to be diverse. Another element that must be as true...
PROUD TO BE A CENTRAL FALCON
Cheyenne Miranda Winston, GA 1982 was the first true Central High School class of seniors –none of us had previously attended Druid or Tuscaloosa High....
Self segregation leads to continued stereotyping.
Monica Mingo Germantown, MD Whenever I meet someone who doesn’t have friends who share different skin colors, I challenge it. How can you live in...
talk straight; stay humble; love boldly
Joe Sexton Brooklyn, NY No people own the market on hate or hurt; every people possess the solutions to both
Politicians make policy, (de)segregation is policy.
Melanie Hoyt Beverly Hills, CA The last three Presidents have viciously torn away at the very fabric of American society pandering away to special interests...
Separate but equal was the goal.
Glennette Clark Washington DC Integration did a great disservice to black people in that we thought that we achieved a dream that turned out to...
Times Have Changed.. Or Have They?
Juanita Shields Tuscaloosa, AL People Say That Mistakes Are Lessons Learned, But When Does Those Lessons Become Permanent? When Will This Society Realize That We...
Diversity educates the mind and soul!
Vivian Dimmel Liverpool, NY Retired inner city school teacher who had to return to the suburbs and the mindset of ignorant people in my retirement.
