ApocalypticaNow: This WaPo article from last month is a bracing read for white liberals wapo.st/4c5s6ms%F0%9...

This WaPo article from last month is a bracing read for white liberals wapo.st/4c5s6ms%F0%9...

Here in 2018 is where Jon Haidt said it wouldn't be fair to black and latino kids to let more of them into NYCs elite magnet schools (where his kids go). www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2018...

Manhattan parents decry proposal designed to diversify city's most sought-after high schoolswww.chalkbeat.org At least 300 people attended District 2’s Community Education Council meeting, where Deputy Chancellor Josh Wallack formally presented the city’s plan to get rid of the test that middle school student...

70 years later, 1 in 3 Black people say integration didn’t help Black studentswapo.st Landmark Brown. v. Board Supreme Court decision is revered, but Post-Ipsos poll shows mixed feelings about how to address today’s school segregation

White Americans support integrated schools in the abstract but many oppose every method of actually achieving that outcome

The new Jim Crow swears he's not racist. It's just that Black people have to pull themselves up by the bootstraps to get their kids into better schools

"As long as you have the ability to move" + "it's a personal choice" is the load-bearing contradiction that lets white liberals live comfortably with the racist status quo

And it COMPLETELY ignores the very real discrimination that Black people still face when trying to get a mortgage. There's a reason Black homeownership lags so far behind white homeownership. And it isn't that Black people can't afford a house payment.

Yes. And then there are racial covenants www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-r...

Racial covenants in deeds cast shadow over Pittsburgh housingwww.publicsource.org In some Allegheny County subdivisions, deed language prohibited sales to Black buyers. A new law allows owners to repudiate the restrictive words.

“It takes a nation of millions…” PE

Assuming everyone and anyone can just up and move whenever they feel like it is a hugely privileged viewpoint that makes it clear someone has never, ever, been *truly* poor.

The words “personal choice” now give me hives.

When I attended public schools in St. Louis in the 60's and 70's, there was "voluntary desegregation": I could attend a school outside my neighborhood, but it was my parents' responsibility to get us there. My mother drove half-an-hour each way twice a day for 8 years to get us there.

I agree that the education segregation and redlining still exists, and they are related. It is likely white people are behind much of it historically, but a lot of it is based on class as much as race, and not so much a strictly liberal or conservative issue.

www.thisamericanlife.org/562/the-prob...

The Problem We All Live With PART ONE - This American Lifewww.thisamericanlife.org Nikole Hannah-Jones reports on a school district that accidentally stumbled on an integration program in recent years.

Many such cases!

And then the challenge with the regional magnet schools is making sure that they actually get diverse applicants who then choose to attend.

Schools are LESS integrated now thanks to all the private christian academies that just happened to pop up in school districts with significant Black pops