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Nowhere is the damage wrought by racial discrimination and isolation more evident and painful than in the schools. "In a way, the most tragic years for African-American kids are the years from fourth to sixth grade," says Kozol. "Those are the years in which the dream dies. In many ways, poor white kids and poor black kids suffer equally. But in the inner-city schools, where the injury of caste is compounded by the injuries of race, the misery is of a different order...
...rankled many traditionalists with his profitable Channel One television network. That controversial venture provides a 12-minute morning newscast, complete with two minutes of commercials, to 7.8 million students each weekday. "I dread the thought of the profit motive infiltrating a noble area of public aspiration," says educator Jonathan Kozol. "Do we really want to give that power to Chris Whittle...
...civil rights movement inspired him to take the "longest trip I ever took," a 20-minute trip on the subway to Roxbury where Kozol volunteered as a schoolteacher. Eventually he was fired from the Boston schools for reading a Langston Hughes poem to his students...
...Kozol believes he is one of the few true liberals who still fights the good fight. Even now, as a successful member of the political/literary establishment whose name is held up high by senators and journalists, Kozol feels betrayed by some of his old liberal friends, whom he calls "all these nice people in New York who get out Pete Seeger records and reminisce about their youthful ethics...
...Kozol laments what he sees as a loss of idealism among these "decent-minded, progressive people. "While some of these people travelled to Mississippi to register blacks in the summer of 1964, Kozol says, "today it's their kids, and they don't want them going to school with anyone who might hold them back...