Monday, October 26, 2015

"Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid Quotes

Sebriana Ciarcia
October 26th, 2015
English 1100_35
Professor Young

1. "One of the most disheartening experiences for those who grew up in the years when Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall were alive is to visit public schools today that bear their names or names of other honored leaders of integration struggles that produced the temporary progress that took place in the three decades after Brown vs. Board of Education, and to find out how many of these schools are bastions of contemporary segregation."

2. "Perhaps the most damaging to any serious effect to address racial segregation openly is the refusal of most of the major arbiters of culture in our northern cities,"

3. "Visitors to schools like these discover quickly the eviscerated meaning of the word, (diverse) which is no longer a proper adjective but a euphemism for a plainer word that has apparently become unspeakable."