![]() ![]() In the least funded schools, teachers dole out antiquated textbooks that say dinosaurs were large frogs and slavery was just an early American unpaid internship program that got out of hand. In schools with the most funding, students are given laptop computers and trained how to succeed. I mean in the future, the door is shut in her face. (I don’t mean she has a face from the future or even a futuristic face. A good education creates opportunities a bad education shuts doors in a child’s future face. Let me repeat that number so it echoes in your head: twenty-three billion dollars! The following should go without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway because I’m kind of a dick that way: Education is important.Ī kid’s entire life can rest on the type of early schooling he or she receives. Overwhelmingly white school districts received $23 billion more than predominantly non-white school districts in state and local funding in 2016, despite serving roughly the same number of children. A recent report found a $23 billion racial funding gap for schools. Three studies prove just how many millions of gallons of fetid, systemic racism still fill our country. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work like that. What systemic racism? ‘Black Panther’ was one of the most popular movies ever, therefore, racism is over,” they claim. More often, it trickles along beneath our collective consciousness, quietly infecting everything.Ī lot of people try to claim systemic racism no longer exists. Rarely is racism truly visible to the naked eye. It runs under our streets, our buildings, our society. Whether we’re currently engaging in a national dialogue about it or not, it’s still there. ![]()
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