Omar Ruiz
Social Movement
Democracy Now
Jim Crow still lives 60 years after Brown v. The Board of Education, how sad and bothersome is that. According to Nikole Hannah-Jones, there is still a racialized K-12 system and that black and brown students tend to be in schools where they are receiving inferior education, with less rigorous curriculum. By no means, they do not receive classes that will help them in college such as advanced physics, high level math and such. In addition to that, they are more likely to be taught by inexperienced teachers. The black, brown and white students, they each receive a different kind of education. Then when they go to college they are taught that race no longer matters but when it comes to the college educational system they can clearly see that the blacks or any kind of minorities are at the disadvantage because in grade school they did not get the same level of education as the others.
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/23/resegregation_of_american_students_new_report
The racism has not stopped, and even with the fact that we have a black president that does not change anything. It gives us hope, but not much progress has progressed. Donald Sterling, the owner of Los Angeles Clippers basketball team made a racism comment to her girlfriend about taking public pictures with minorities and that drew a lot of attention from all over the country that even the President Obama, had something to say about it. How is it possible for a man who owns a basketball team and has hundreds of people under his payroll and the majority of them are black people, and they bring millions of dollars to his pocket every day for the whole NBA season. How can somebody be ignorant and insensitive about the color of one's race? How can a small-minded man would focus on the color of one's skin? That just beats me.
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