Democracy Now

Evelyn Espinoza

 

The video titled "Jim Crow in the Classroom: New Report Finds Segregation Lives on in U.S. Schools" explained the segregation that remains in schools and discussed reasons behind the desegregated school system. Nikole Hannah Jones did a study and titled it "Segregation Now: Investigating America's Racial Divide" where she studied Tuscaloosa's schools. She found that black and Latino students are removed and isolated and she states that it seems as is if Brown v. Board of Education never happened. Sadly she found that black and brown students are receiving inferior education that lack preparation for college. Once in college where there is more diversity the minorities are competing with whites that have had a far better advantage in their early education years.  I can clearly see the cycle of poverty that this leads to and is never ending because of where they live and in Nikole's study it doesn't even really matter if your in a poor neighborhood but simply because of your race you get a lack or education and go on to college and lack the skills needed so how can you really succeed and compete. May lead to low graduation rates and high drop out rates and fail to escape the cycle poor minorities get tangled and placed in.  What was interesting was what she found about federal court orders and shaped the south into integration but as the federal loosely oversees districts they begin to segregate once again. In the case of Tuscaloosa she saw this when the schools were split up and created two integrated and one that was entirely black. People may say this happens naturally because of where people reside but she found that white students actually live within the all black school district but do not attend. The second video was about the prestigious Ivy League schools that were built by slaves that were brought from Africa. The time these schools were being built coincides with the time period in which slave trade was popular.

 

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/23/resegregation_of_american_students_new_report

 

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/29/ebony_and_ivy_the_secret_history