Word: racial
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Before the crowd in Askwith Hall, civil rights advocate and public education author Jonathan Kozol ’58 spoke fervently against what he described as racial re-segregation in American schools...
...Supreme Court’s Brown decision ruled that “separate but equal” is “inherently unequal” in an opinion that cited the psychological effects of racial segregation on children...
...Seattle, Washington, ten high schools allowed students to opt for any school of choice, unless the school was over-enrolled. If that was the case, after preference was given to siblings of enrolled students, the spots were allotted to maintain a racial balance that differed by no more than 15 percent from the county’s overall demographics, according to one of the panelists, Liliana M. Garces, who wrote the amicus brief submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union for the two cases. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...that only one percent of white students at the most selective institutions come from the lowest socioeconomic backgrounds, while over 90 percent of students at these selective institutions come from households above the median American income ($60,000 per year). This lack in socioeconomic diversity is also linked to racial diversity, skewing not only students’ perceptions of what is normal or average in this country, but also what racial categories such as “Asian American” really represent...
...contrast, nothing has been made of the fact that someone who sounds like the original heckler yelled a racial epithet back at Richards. The man said, “That was uncalled for you f—ing cracker-ass…” Why no public indignation over a black man calling a white man “cracker?” For another thing, why do I feel comfortable typing out “cracker” when I can’t bring myself to type out the n-word...