Monday, March 23, 2009

Talking Points #6

"One More River to Cross"- Recognizing the Real Injury in Brown: A Prerequiste to Sharping New Remedies. By: Charles Lawrence

This reading way about America's struggle for equality. With the broad focus on the Brown vs. Board of Education case, and how blacks are kept seperate from whites, and being treated as inferior. It effects many black students in trying to get their education, and becoming successful in todays society. The placement of both white and black children in one school, does not remove the imprints of years of segregation in the past. "If you're black, get back."
Quotes

1) "Segregation American-stlye, like South African apartheid, has only one purpose: to create and maintain a permenant lower class or subcaste defined as race."
I liked this quote, because it was like Johnson, and just said it. Its true, the only reason segregation exists is to keep blacks as an inferior. The injury students may have in these schools where its still there is very unfair and against the law of the fourteenth amendment. The equal protection clause was violated in the brown case, and it shouldnt have been.
2) "Once blacks are labeled as inferior, they are denied access to equal societal opportunities. The resulting inadequate educational preparation, poverty of cultural backgrounds, and lack of expierience constitute real limitations on their ability to contribute to society, and the prophecy of their inferiority is fufilled."
This quote reminded me of Mott Haven, where no one would help and there were many blacks and they suffered from poverty. Once they are labeled as inferior, no one helps or even cares anymore. Schools shouldnt be like this. A black student shouldnt feel any different than a white student. There should be no superior or inferior. and if they get raised like that in a school, then their injuries are carried on for the rest of their lives."segregated schools, prepare children for a segregated socitey which regulates them to marginal roles"
3) "The ultimate goal was full political and civil equality for blacks; they knew that this could not be acheived until the entire system of segregation had been destroyed.Equality of education is not enough, there can be no equality under a segregated system. The American negro is not a dominate minority; therefore he must fight for complete elimination of segregation as his ultimate goal."
Everyone needs to work together to fight segregation. it just wouldnt go away on its own. It has to be completely distroyed so blacks dont feel as if they are inferior to whites.
This reading was kind of confusing to me. It was too many different things at once. I think the point that its trying to prove would be that black students get injured being in these segregated schools, that shouldn't be segregated in the first place. But whose to blame? Is it the state for segregating the houseing, so that the blacks all end up together anyways? Seperate from the whites because they are at a different end of town. I don't really know, it wasn't that clear to me.. but it was interesting in some parts.

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