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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought I was WOKE because I went to all-black schools.  We all got along (and still do) and racism did not seem to play a prominent role at my school.

I realize now how misinformed I was.  I didn't see racism as an issue at my school because I am white and never experienced racism against myself, and I never saw my friends experience it because we all mostly stayed within the boundaries of our school's culture.  I was totally unaware that the sad state of our school was due to white flight and subsequent defunding of our public school system.  It didn't occur to me that, academically, I benefited far more than my classmates by being white and middle class.  The list goes on...  [/quote]

This is exactly my experience too. White woman, went to majority black schools, thought at least in my schools/social bubble, racism wasn’t a big problem. Until I realized the reason my schools were majority black and were underfunded/faced budget cuts, was due to white flight. Also, in looking back at my yearbook recently it hit me that the top performing academically kids were almost exclusively white and Asian kids even though the school is 85+% black.

All the white and Asian kids were in honors and AP classes it seems almost by default. Teachers would call on white or Asian kids for the answer and generally expect them to do better academically (I remember even a lot of the black teachers seemed to do this) whereas black students made up almost all the suspensions, detentions, often getting singled out and blamed for behavioral issues that white or Asian kids could’ve easily gotten away with...I think a lot of this is also classism at work not just racism but racism was certainly still a problem and where privilege was real even at a majority black school. Sad.[/quote]

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