Race project

Hello, everyone and welcome back to my final blog!! I'd like to say even though how graded assignments can be a little annoying at times I have really enjoyed blogging my thoughts and reactions. As I continued to read The Shame of The Nation I found myself becoming more comfortable with talking to an audience that is larger than just my teacher. This book really opened my eyes to the harsh world outside of our small little town in New Hampshire. One question that I had the whole time when I was reading this book was, what can we do to help integrade schools more and help put an end to some of the segregation? In class we have recently been spending a great amount of time on dealing with race, bias, and segregation as a whole. In a recent example we saw it said that racial bias or racism isn’t just on one individual it is on a community as a whole. This is seen sort of like a trickl down effect where everyone in the community is affected. Well I think this is the same in the sens...

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog! This week I read another section in my book, The Shame of the Nation. As I talked about in my previous blog post this book is regarding the disadvantages African Americans have in public school systems. This directly links issues with school systems but also just general discrimination. In current events we see discrimination between school systems and African American children. One specific article I read was stating that in the United States black and poor students are suspended at much higher rates than their white and non-poor peers. This article brings up the idea, is it because American teachers are racist or is it because students of color and children from poverty and less money are actually at a disadvantage in their schooling. This is a very similar idea that Kozol brings up throughout his book. This article basically brings up the idea of how can you tell if students that are African American are being discriminated or are actual...