I found an article from 2000 in the New York Times about a study that had been conducted on racial bias within a small variety of large school districts across the United States. The different districts include, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Durham, South Carolina, Los Angeles, Miami, Columbia, San Francisco, Missoula, and Providence.
According to the study, “black students in pulic schools…are far more likely than whites to be suspended or expelled, and are less likely to be placed in gifted or advanced placement classes,” (Lewin, pg. 1). The issue is often overlooked and mistaken for a personal problem among the individual student and the teacher or administrator. In an altercation at a high school in Decatur, Ill. 6 African American students were arrested and expelled, though it was not specified if students of other races were disciplined the same (Lewin, pg. 1).
The overall message from the article is that racial bias in public schools exists, and it does not only exist in certain places. The study was done on a variety of school districts across the US and the results were the same for most. Minority students are being unequally treated in comparison to their non-colored peers though we are in the era of color blindness.
I find it very disturbance to discriminate against other races base on their skin color, religion, sex, etc. Why? Well, I myself have witnessed multiple cases before. For instance, people tend hate others because of their skin tone, and this is so because of lack of similarities. In addition, treating other people unequally can be a result of their background. I think our society need to more educate on this matter and should work together to treat everyone equally and not to discriminate.