Fifty years after Brown vs Board of Education, are things improving for America’s poor and minority students? History repeats itself as schools become more and more segragated as we speak. I found an article on racism in public schools as it is today. Though the issue of segregation may seem invisble, it is occuring. According to the Harvard Civil Rights Project, “ public schools today have re-segregated at a level not seen since the 1960s. Wealthy, all-white suburban schools sit a few miles from poor inner-city schools that are predominately Black and Latino” (socialistworker.org). Currently things do not seem to be “separate but equal” within out colorblind society (or what we may think is a colorblind society). Why is it that 50 years after the desegreatation of public schools, poor and minority students are not recieving equal opportunities as their wealthy caucasian counterparts? Years ago, the segregation of public schools were such that black schools had no running water, flushing toilets, or electricity (socialistworker.org), and the white schools had an abundace of books, classroom space, and other neccessities needed for their students to gain their education.Similar incedences like this are happening everywhere in the US today. As mentioned before in one of my past blogs, I attended many different schools and all of which were segregated, though not segregated by law. These schools were segregated more by class and status. It is amazing to see how history really does repeat itself even when we try to prevent it all from happening again.
