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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]we have come so far from the ideals of Brown vs. the Board of Education --- once upon a time, we decided to integrate schools, creating schools with diversity that matched the proportions of the overall population.

What happened to us? I'm sure there are people on this thread and others on DCUM who consider themselves good liberals who have found themselves convinced that segregation is normal and even desirable.

Even the premise of this thread bothers me. Why is OP taking the two extremes as options? [b]How can we make individual choices that result in more integration of schools, rather than more segregation?[/b][/quote]
We probably can't. It's up to us to dismantle systemic racism so that we level the economic playing field. We aren't necessarily dividing along racial lines anymore, it's the racism that has pushed minorities into poverty that is doing the job. In America, poor people tend to be Black because of our history and systems, etc. What I find interesting is when people think that having 60% of a school white is automatically awful, even when 60% of our general population is white. Or a PP who mentioned Asians... well, Asians are like 7% of the population so why is it automatically racism if around 5-7% of a school is Asian?[/quote]

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