blackandbrownlove:Black folk and White get bent out of shape when ending segregation is discussed. T
blackandbrownlove:Black folk and White get bent out of shape when ending segregation is discussed. The Whites make it appear they gave up something. The Blacks most think they got something. They both are dead wrong. Listen up.Separation does not mean the same thing as segregation. You did not need integration to desegregate. Segregation had to go, it should have been destroyed by the Blacks, first. It places a legal hierarchy of one population over the other—its the law to have a dirty antiquated water fountain for the Blacks and a new high tech refrigerated one for the Whites—same with schools, hospitals, architecture, roads, housing. Everything. You can desegregate without integration. What the White ruling class did was end legal segregation and integrate with their institutions getting the resources, full control of everything and segregating Black students within the White schools themselves under some “learning disability” classification. When you could have desegregated by equally staffing, funding and building exactly the same quantity and quality opportunities in Black communities and in the general White society. But never was that even a consideration—even the liberal and radical White never fund anything without strings attached and ultimate final control. So what was a planned inferiority process to keep Blacks generally dumb driven cattle under Whites is a successful “failing reality” just as it was designed to do. Equality means you put the same thing on one side that you put of the other side. Whites know this—and they know never to allow this or you get what happens in the major sports.And Black working classes, 90%+ of the Black populations are left in line for obsolescence and “final solutions.” In the process—You have to live for the rest of your life wondering who could you have been or what you could have done with your life.So now these ruling Whites merely segregate you based on economics—which is just as criminal because they cheat at every turn but make it appear that you had the same chance as Bill Gates. Case in point. The desegregation of schools destroyed Black education—even today. These rotten slick Whites are fully in control of the State and Federal legislative funds and curricula to make sure that Black folk continue to fail in schools early so that most never get the chance to do great things later.In the spring of 1953, with the Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation case pending in the U.S. Supreme Court, Wendell Godwin, superintendent of schools in Topeka, sent letters to black elementary school teachers. Painfully polite, the letters couldn’t mask the message: If segregation dies, you will lose your jobs. “Our Board will proceed on the assumption that the majority of people in Topeka will not want to employ negro teachers next year for White children,” he wrote.A year later, the high court declared segregation unconstitutional. Over the next 20 years, thousands of black educators in Topeka and elsewhere lost their jobs. Researchers say the firings decimated the black teaching force and educational tradition, helping set the stage for decades of poor performance by black students.It’s a little-known and unintended consequence of the ruling, but observers say the nation is still paying the price. “By and large, this culture of black teaching died with Brown .In 1954, about 85,000 black teachers were responsible for teaching 2.34 million black children. In the 11 years immediately following Brown, more than 41,000 black teachers and administrators in 18 Southern and border states lost their jobs.In Arkansas, for instance, virtually no black educators were hired in desegregated districts from 1958 to 1968. In Texas, 5,000 “substandard” white teachers were employed, while certified black teachers “were told to go into other lines of work,”.Black principals fared even worse. By some estimates, 93% lost their jobs in 11 Southern states. Many were fired, and others retired. Still others lost their jobs for minor transgressions, such as failing to hold monthly fire drills. Those who stayed often were demoted to assistant principal or to coaching or teaching jobs. Others were offered clerical or even janitorial work.In 1964, Florida had black principals in all 67 school districts. Ten years later, with integration underway and the black school-aged population growing, only 40 districts had black principals.In North Carolina, the number of black principals dropped from 620 to 40 from 1967 to 1971.Because school districts usually closed down all-black schools during desegregation, black educators were easier to fire, despite often having better credentials than their white peers.National Education Association data from the period show that 87% of minority teachers had college degrees, compared with 75% of white teachers.It’s not just that they were trained. They were well-trained. But their jobs were still imperiled.In June 1955, a group of white residents in Greenville, Miss., demanded that local school boards fire black teachers who were registered voters. That August, the Georgia State Board of Education adopted a resolution barring teachers from membership in the NAACP.The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave the federal government power to stop the firings, but observers say enforcement was spotty. Teachers got little help from unions — in the mid-1950s, the American Teachers Association, an all-black union, was too weak, and the larger National Education Association “was controlled by prejudiced people,” .By the mid-1960s, even integration supporters were worrying that black students weren’t always being well-served in their new schools, that Brown could bring about “a wholesale destruction of the black educational tradition. The effects are still with us: From 1975 to 1985, the number of black students majoring in education dropped by 69%, those who would have been teachers stopped majoring in education.In 2015, 84% of teachers were white, while only 53% of students were white. Blacks make up about 23% of public school students, and 82% in most major cities in the USA, but fewer than 6.14% of teachers; in 2015, 39.7% of public schools had not a single teacher of color.Now they are closing the majority of Black schools in our neighborhoods arguing that they are underperforming—while they the Whites are fully in control of the State and Federal legislative funds and curricula to make sure they continue to fail. Dr. Tdka Maat Kilimanjaro -- source link