School Segregation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Public schools are increasingly divided by race and class. John Oliver discusses the troubling trend towards school resegregation.
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holy shit, the comments to this video are A LOT more revealing about racism in 2016 than the video itself.
Yeah and that is why I have deleted so many comments.
Irene Adler There isn't more racism today, it's just a lot more public thanks to social media
I wouldn't say racism so much as people trolling.
Aids racism is not a political view.
Dat Jo possibly. Hiding behind a username makes it easier to say idiotic and outrageous things.
I've found that funding for schools that score higher on tests is wrong. Why give to schools that score higher more funding when schools that score lower need it?
It's supposed to be an incentive to get lower funded schools to teach their students better, however i don't think it occurred to them that schools who can't afford textbooks can't teach their students shit.
But if you gave better funding to schools who scored lower than average, teachers would start purposefully failing their students so the school would get more funding and in turn an HD tv in the teachers lounge.
Best idea would be to find a equal ground to fund all the schools equally. But i found that even if we give 65% of the taxes earned in a district to the local public education system, if a school happens to be an a low income district they will get lower funding than schools that exist in high income districts.
The problem is, is that we are using an outdated format of public education and no one's trying to fix it. We're are one of the lowest in test scores among the first world countries and apparently this doesn't alarm anybody. We get people who can barely read in their adult age, i'm in college and i've met those people! In college! My education was so bad i can't even divide large quantities without a calculator, which is why i'm in the class with those people.
I think funding should be tied to student numbers. Not test scores, not county lines. Schools are one of the most important things people buying homes/moving care about. A school that's doing poorly is going to keep people from wanting to move there, which creates a downward spiral.
I know there's a big difference between St.Louis and LA schools. But my high school had a fund raiser to buy paint. My fiance's school had glass working machinery that cost thousands each month just to run the machines. Both public schools.
Need it for what? To bribe the students?
All things considered, that funding system is really messed up.
Lyle Schoepflin True, every child and teen has right to an education. I wish we have free education for college and healthcare but I guess that will never happen.
"You don't have to be intentionally racist, to do things that have racist effect."
Racism is about intent.
@@MrCmon113 it is about intent and effect. Both
Does that apply to you too?? Chinese, Japanese?? Or is it ONLY white people that have the capacity to be racist?
@@johnsprings3322 Racism of the kind being talked about here (institutional racism) requires power. Minorities can be individually bigoted, sure, but they lack the institutional power to engage in oppressive racism the way majorities can.
John Springs I bet you harbor no racist bias huh? Youre just fucking stupid.
I love how that one mom assumes her kid won't be the one selling drugs to the other kids. Parents seem to think their own child is an angel while every other child is a threat and none of them know their own child as well as they think they do. It's the natural parental blind spot that educators are unfortunately intimately familiar with.
her kids r probably gonna smoke that pack when they get into high school; nearly every teen does in current day.
Dude do you know how many white kids at my high school ( mostly white)sold weed? A Ton. Once someone sold it in the front row of my art class and the teacher ( staunchly Anti drug) did NOTHING. White kids can get away with anything!
Well no, they don't think _every_ other child is a threat; just _certain_ other children...
I know. We seen this during all those police riots in 2020. It seemed every mom thought their son was “a good boy”.
@@minivan5908 Nope. The first part is an assumption with a big lack of proof and the second thing is - among other things - totally out of time.
I am black and adopted. All my life I've gone to white schools. I was actually the only black person in my high school. Everyone was confused about the fact that I was smart and some people were intimidated by me simply because I was black. I always felt like I was a freak because my skin was dark and I got many comments about it. I think that we really need racial diversity so that this doesn't happen. I do have hope that things are getting better especially because of the internet where we meet all sorts of good and bad people.
gabriel semidey did i disagree with that?
True. Accept that American left and right both love segregation. Even American colleges have Safe spaces for racial segregation. If you believe being a white person on a black school is any different, nah. Nobody is looking at American left or right how to create a multiracial society. Both sides are very racist.
luka zupie sorry from my understanding is I'm sorry I'm not racist but I still don't want to be near people of color...
luka zupie To quote one of my favorite movies, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Racism is more than lynchings and burning crosses on somebody's front lawn. It's a much, much bigger problem than that, and includes basically everything you've said in this comment thread. You can say you "wish them the best" all day, but when those well wishes only apply if said groups are far away from you, you're racist. I'd like to debate this some more, but I must get back to work.
Hive Atlas same here. Asian immigrant growing in italy. Won a regional award, apparently I "stole" It only because I'm not white... but must of them kept quiet, so I think I'm doing my share for the problem :)
I actually went to a poor, racially isolated high school where 95% of the school was hispanic. I was part of the 5% white minority of the school but I loved that school. I live in the Coachella Valley and there are four different school districts and when I went to a white majority high school in a different district for a month my sophmore year, I saw just how much my high school was disrespected and racially profiled (one of the reasons I returned to my old high school after just a month). When I said to fellow students and even some teachers, where I went freshman year, I was actually asked if I was worried about gangs in the school and if I had been tempted by all the drugs (both falsehoods when it comes to the school). I wanted to punch them for saying that crap. Even after having graduated six years ago, it still gets to me and makes me realize that so much change is still needed. This main story is very relevant and I hope more people will listen to it.
Kids are sometimes assholes but in the long run they'll come through. I mean, I went to a well mixed school and I can say for it's low class standards you'll be excepted by your 5th beating.
Thankfully I had three and had to beat up the bully. Lost the first one though ... got revenge after :]
Seriously though, it's not the kid's fault but the people around them.
My high schools actully 90 percent latino. But because my area in TX is majority mexican. I go the the good school in a small town outside the city. The city school is on academic probation. Even though theres not that many white or black students we still get along, and most of the teachers are white and one of my principles was blac, and from other parts of the country. It's a really cool place and even though there are some bad kids like anywhere else the fact that theres even a small but sizable population of non Hispanics really helps confront our biases
A bad district is a bad district it isn't so much the racial make but really the effort put into education.
You probably liked that school because you were in the top 10% without breaking a sweat.
jawtek82 can’t tell if the blatant racism here is intentional, accidental, or sarcastic
@@frimi8593 No racism in my post. Let's let Brigette respond and tell us how she did academically at the POOR high school she mentioned, and we'll see if my guess is right or wrong. What's really racist is the government forcing poor Hispanic kids to all be lumped in together at a crappy government-run school, while wealthier (and likely more Caucasian) folks often have better options.
My moms favorite child was herself
"When I was your age I did my own laundry"
"When I was your age I could cut my own hair"
"When I was your age I packed my own lunch for school"
Note: the last one was when I was in 3rd grade
Also she said all these things while not letting me go in the front yard in my VERY safe neighborhood without her being within view
No one should be cutting their own hair. Even if they're shaving it all off. You will never get it even and it will always look bad.
Guessing she was concerned about kidnapping or ...? 👽?
Look up raisedbynarcissists on Reddit. It's much more common than people realise
@@SadisticSenpai61 Not to brag, but hairstylists are my biggest enemy, so I will not lay down my scissors and give up, I will swing and cut everything myself.
I mean packing your own lunch isn't very impressive but CUTTING YOUR OWN HAIR, Laundry, AND DOING THEM ALL AT THE SAME TIME is amazing.
"I dont want to see them stabbed or given drugs or robbed"
Wtf...what is the basis for that comment?
my money is on- personal experience
@@RogueBystander what? Personal experience of high school kids stabbing her while giving her drugs and robbing her? Thats idiotic. Sounds like hysteria and bias to me.
$20 easy says her son is already "taking a drug". Kid's probably taking it with people that look exactly like him.
The rich kids can buy better drugs.
@@RogueBystander I can't believe a person can be so blatantly and unapologetically racist. Hopefully our society grows past people like you at some point.
The little girl choosing a “good” and “bad” child is legitimately one of the most depressing things I have ever seen.
the only difference between them was color and she was asked to find a good child and a bad child. the question clearly WANTED her to reply in such a way. her logic is sound there is a bad child, she herself is a good child therefore the child least like her is bad. it never occurred to her to break out of the box the question put her in and say none of them.
FirstArchon not true, in similar studies when black children are asked who the “bad” child is, they pick the darkest black child. So yes, it’s legitimately really fucking sad.
@@FirstArchon exactly. a black child would probably do the same thing. hell. you could maybe ask a black child "who is the evil child and deserves divine justice" and they point to a white child. because that is how they are taught.
@@mayainverse9429 its not necessarily how their taught. the human mind likes to make the mistake of "like me is good unlike me is bad" you don't have to teach a child that they'll do that on their own.
I have seen on internet the same with a black girl hmm the same result
I know I'm 2 years late, but I live in St. Louis. I know people that went to Francis Howell Central.
Trust me, they are doing WAY more drugs than that mom thinks
I had that same thought and I don't even know the school or anyone who attends it.
I graduated from Webster Groves High School and it was the same there. Heroine is the big killer there now. Or ar least it was when I left Missouri 8 months ago
@@coreywelton8659 yeah, black people being integrated into a school in a predominately white neighborhood must've proven to be a great hindrance in the life of someone who, at worst, doesn't know the difference between an inspiring woman and a street drug and, at best, is too stupid or lazy to check their spelling.
@@mellowdrone you really need to learn how to read shit online. I never said it was a hindrance. Just remarking on how predominately white neighborhoods tend to have better drugs. Before you comment next time, make sure you can open your mind to the true context of the message as opposed to going off half cocked. It will serve you better in the future.
@@coreywelton8659 oh please, don't even start preaching to me about reading comprehension, you sensitive fucking teenager. It's not the reader's responsibility to infer that your "true meaning" is anything different than it appears to be. Which in THIS CONTEXT follows comments about drug problems being bad and/or worsening in the tace of racial integration. If you don't want to be misinterpreted, be more specific. But since you've already established that you're barely literate, I'll take the blame on this one.
Ok that kid in the "blackface" actually wasnt all that bad. His intentions were pure. He was just doing his best to look like Martin Luther King Jr. and there's nothing wrong with that. Blackface as a concept was made to make fun of black people and enforce negative stereotypes against them. But this kid wasnt doing that. Instead he was doing his best to accurately portray him, in a positive manner. While the technique has a racist history, this kid did it for the right reasons and i see nothing wrong with that. I believe MLK Jr. would have had a lot of respect for that kid for trying to honor his memory
The kid did nothing wrong. Nothing at all. I applaud his efforts. However, he should have been taught that white people pretending to be black people is something of a sore subject.
It's not his fault he doesn't know about minstrel shows and how much they did to hurt black Americans, it's the fault of everyone who failed to teach him about minstrel shows and how much they did to hurt black Americans. Collectively
Even John said, he didn't know any better ...
Just about anybody can read his pure intentions.
munageesi He probably isn't, and that shouldn't matter in the slightest.
Undertaker9711 even if he didn't mean it it still is offensive and hurts people of color. Is it that hard to understand?
even in my diverse school, I noticed this in the makeup of my advanced classes, which were disproportionately White. The remedial classes I saw on the other hand, were disproportionately minorities. The worst part? I often was in classes with both given the weird organisation of my school... and the minority students were no dumber than the kids in my advanced classes. In fact there was many times I found minorities sat in ordinary level classes who I thought definitely should be at a higher level, and plenty of white kids in my advanced classes who should NOT have been there. I concluded the white families were better informed and better connected to the administration at my school, which is a shame. Segregation happens even at the school level.
i mean its really a class thing, better connected and well to do people have more time and resources to fight for their children and earn them their place. It happens in europe in all white places between the rich and poor.
Most of my classes are iep so I wouldn’t say I have the best perspective on the percentage and stuff but my school is very culturally diverse. Some of my classes are majority white, some majority Hispanic, and other majority black. Most though are pretty even. I honestly think it is just chance sometimes.
I live in New York and I can tell you that a lot the students in specialized high schools are not at all intelligent. There are parents that pay to get their kids in and have people in the administration like you said that get them in. I have a friend that got into one like that.
god did we go to the same school? I was best friends with someone who was racially profiled and to this day i want to scream still, because she was literally smarter than me, and while they lauded my "intelligence" they treated her like shit JUST cause english was her second language (florida sucks- and every school administrator there is a buffoon and also a racist asshole)
did you go to my school? cuz it was the same there; not only that, but the administration actively discouraged black and brown kids from joining advanced classes. actively. i wished they'd fuckin namedrop those fucks who did that in front of the school. even asian kids, there were like, 5 in those classes. i was one of them. it's cuz of segregation in the elementary and middle school levels that this happens.
I love how delusional that mom is at the pta meeting. She really thinks her suburban kid doesn't have access to drugs...meanwhile her oxytocin prescription is mysteriously missing.
phanatic215 I wish I could get a prescription for oxytocin. All I get are these lousy hugs.
OxyContin, i think is what you meant.
I doubt she has a prescription for Oxytocin. I guess you went to a segregated school...
Ya know, kids these days.... getting lit on that labor inducing hormone. The parties these days are insaaaane
Kids like you are the reason why they have teen rehabs.
This country, and every country, will profit from a well educated youth.
Cool picture there mate
Dude hate to go all conspiracy on you, but no. An educated youth is a youth that can overthrow your oligarchy
meh prolly not, computers will likely do all actual work by the time that blackface kid is in the workplace.
Budget Hitman Not everyone would. That's why you need to ask who wouldn't benefit from this. That's where you'll find the source of the problem. What you said is true. Find those for who it isn't. They're the problem.
Wemdiculous true but if the kids aren’t smart enough to keep the computers running correctly then we’re all gonna die
The fact that those are all macs instead of normal average priced computers is crazy
@serendipidus1 Whats funny is that Google has usurped them in many places now. Chromebooks FTW
Yeah....tf??? I went to a white school in a rich area and we didn’t have fucking MACS!
HONESTLY! I went to a suburban school and it took a while for us to get macs, which are still limited
We had apple computers at my school in the 80's. They just leased them. They probably have long term contracts.
That's new York tho
"Hey sweetie, if you paint your face black, people will be offended."
"But I like black people"
"Okay, I guess it's fine then."
HOW WAS THAT THE WHOLE CONVERSATION??
Because it's the intention behind the action which counts. He wants to impersonate an important figure in american history, and he want to do it right. I his childish world there is no blackfacing, it's just imitating someone he look up to. The problem are the adults, seeing the blackface an automatically assume a bad intention behind it, like mockery or disrespect.
Thats the difference between the preassumpion of adults and the innocence of children. This was more a loose-loose situation.
Lusti I'm fine with the kid, because I do understand his intention. I think his parents should have stopped because blackface is disrespectful. Sooner or later he's gonna learn about the historical context and he'll either regret this or think it's perfectly excusable and not offensive at all. That said, I don't think people should hold this against him, he's a kid.
@@four_girls_in_search_of_awesom Thats exactly my point: How is a blackface disrespectful? If you do it to mock black people yes thats disrespectful. But is a blackface in comedy disrespectful? Is imitating his idol disrespectful? It looks like the context is important even here. I understand your argument about the historical context, but shouldn't we progress and judge people by their intensions more that always define something in a historical context.
I don't want do diminish the autrocities done to all people of all races. And i think we as people and as a society should always remember the methods and events leading to those autrocities. Just to not repeat them over, our ancestors paid a huge price to learn/teach those lessons to the humanity. But then, in a much lesser scale this is a boy, his intention is good and he should be allowed to blackface if he want's to. It's much more difficult to explain to him he can't do that because someone, somewhere in the past did something bad to another beeing. That doesn't help either ...
Lusti I see blackface as one of those things that we should leave in the past. Sort of like the swastika, it's pretty much ruined forever. The sad truth is, racism isn't all in the past. Sure, slavery's abolished, but African Americans are still a minority and underprivileged in many instances. Blackface is a symbol of bigotry, cultural appropriation, what have you, and it will be for a while, so I don't think it should be used that way. Maybe there are instances where it's okay, like self aware satire (Tropic Thunder is an example), but even then it's controversial.
Anyways, thanks for debating with me like a normal person. The internet's been so touchy lately, and you're a breath of fresh air.
@@lusti6511 r u black? If not then who r u to say whether or not blackface is offensive and whether or not people (black people in particular) should or shouldn't be offended. I don't blame this kid, I blame his parents. Whether or not his intentions were pure, there r decidedly negative connotations to wearing blackface. It has NEVER been a positive thing stop trying to act like we should just change history and forget completely what it initially stood for. It's all great if u anyone wants to respectfully emulate a black role model, but u can do so without painting ur face black. Its not necessary to get ur point across, and whatever good intentions u had will surely be lost in the execution. We as a black community do NOT (at any time) want to see someone caucasian dressed in blackface, whether or not it's meant to be positive. Its just not positive for us. And if ur not part of the black community, u don't get the right to say whether or not it's ok. That's not ur place to say.
John, you should do a video on rent/housing. It's so fucking out of control.
Yes
Malcolm Tyler Would you say the rent is
TOO
DAMN
HIGH?!
Malcolm I KNOW!!!!!
+Malcolm Tell that to a person in Dublin.
Malcolm tell that to someone that lives in Central London.
Am I the only one who legitimately does not see any problem with someone going all-out in their effort to look like a historical figure? Blackface was racist because the people doing it were doing it to make fun of black people. Painting your face dark for what is effectively a Martin Luther King Jr. costume is just making an impressively thorough costume.
Completely agree
Wtf.....
I came to the comment section looking for someone who felt the same. I am shock something like that is considered racist, like it didn't matter he really seem to admire MLK and respect and love black people, no, the only thing that mattered is that he painted his face.
This is why I'm glad to live segregated from this nonsense in different country where you can paint your face whatever you like without other people harassing you because of it.
Yeah, it's like racism has been redefined
I'm a white student from one of the Boston suburb schools that busses in inner city kids to go to our schools. My friends and I have talked to our teachers about the program because we've noticed it is not that great. I first became interested / aware of its issues when my sophomore year English teacher asked our (all white) advanced class if racism exists in the school. People were reluctant to answer, so I raised my hand and said "yes". I gave several examples -- from hearing the n-word used casually by white students to black students keeping to themselves. Most of the other students who spoke disagreed that there was racism and blamed black students staying in their own groups on them self-segregating.
My teacher brought up how five years ago, the students of color sat in the cafeteria for lunch at integrated tables. Whereas, now, black students sit at their own table either in the cafeteria or in one of the subject hallways for lunch. While other groups of kids also do not sit in the cafeteria, it's because they feel less welcomed or don't feel like being around the people in the cafeteria. It's a really small school (around 100 per grade), and while there are things that make it harder for black students to integrate (like missing out on sports and other extra circulars because they commute an hour+ to and from school every day using our public school busses, so they would have to find their own rides back to the city after practice), the program definitely used to be better.
My English teacher this year, told us (our all white, AP class) a story a local black student wrote about for his college application a few years back. He was one of the few students of color who actually lived in our town, and on his first day of school back in first or second grade, he didn't know what bus to get on, so one of the teachers directed him toward the metco (inter city) bus. He almost got to Boston by the time his parents contacted the bus driver to tell him his son lived in our town, not in the city. It was an awful mistake, and I understand how it could be made at a school like mine, but that story kind of underscores the problems with race even at a top public school in Massachusetts that has an integration program. Just sharing my experience.
I grew up in Western Mass. So segregation has been a problem across our state. I went to school in Westfield. I remember when Franklin Ave started to become integrated and all the white parents started sending their kids to other schools. They even built a new one to effectively lessen the impact of integration and used the cover of well you know we HAVE so many kids in our district. I feel like Westfield High is in bad need of being rebuilt not just the building, but the internal culture. Progress is being made since the days that I walked downtown Westfield and didnt feel like an outsider. Even now I see kids of color playing with white kids. Back in my day I remember white parents saying, "Don't play with the Puerto Ricans!" I think racism persists and many kids of color don't know if they can trust the white community as a whole and that only adds to distrust. Whites distrust Black and Brown kids and move out of the area if the school becomes more than 10-20% brown/black. If the school is 50-50% you start seeing the white flight kick off and 80-20% you have the poorest whites and the now impoverished district dealing with problems which start to build up. I never understood why so many white people up and leave rather than integrate with nonwhites. They lock their doors when they enter Springfield and avoid Holyoke. Always justifying it as bad neighborhoods. How do you think that makes nonwhites feel? It dehumanizes the community and in turn creates a self fulling prophecy. The world think I'm worthless and bad... Might as well prove them right. :/
it just feels so strange, to read the word "segregated" in 2016 (2019) but here were are
No matter how diverse a place may be, its human nature to be with your own people, or people thay look alike to one self. Basically social surrogation.
I'm from a town in NY and I can say it isn't that bad HERE (can't say anywhere else).
Although, my mother had to literally bitch out city hall, fight, and won on people with disabilities to attend a school since the school itself didn't make any accommondations which I had lead poisoning back then but was over it. I know this isn't racist but tells you what schools are missing time to time lol
2020
Segregation still going on.
justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/amid-coronavirus-crisis-oregon-county-creates-segregated-safe-space
I went to a very racially diverse school that was aware and proud of that fact. They were also proud of having the first Gay/Straight alliance in the county. There was over 500 people in my graduating class, about 1.8K in high school (I knew this because I was in Yearbook). We had very low rates of bullying. One time I saw a kid push someone's books out of their hands and a group of kids circled around him and shamed him for being a bully. Several students in my graduating class got into Ivy League schools and even those that didn't had very successful college careers and are now holding good jobs. Diversity helps emotional intelligence grow. It's an invaluable trait in all situations.
Sounds like a bunch of pussies tbh
Concord Academy?
Sounds like my school lol
"classrooms should teach children about the importance of self-esteem, not rip it from them"
*cough cough* high school *cough cough*
Golden Apple yup. I could not agree more unfortunately
yuppppppp
Yeah, i agree, to an extent, children should be taught that we should all try to be kind to one another and that we're all great and capable of great things, but we shouldn't try to make our kids think they're special or better than others. If you get a good grade on a test, you're rewarded, if you get a bad grade, you're probably punished, hopefully at home, cause in the future, if you get a bad grade from someone who's assessing you at work, there won't be a second test to bring your grade up
Honestly that’s a lot of schools in America not just high schools.
"The hard truth is: you don't have to be intentionally racist to do things that have racist affects."
Effects.
RealityCheck1993 ł
L5940 what a foolish statement. Race only existed 400 yrs ago (thanks white America).
Bengal tigers don't discriminate against white tigers. There is no factual basis behind your statement.
Just another cognitively dissonant white person's justifications
I see that you forgot to add a time stamp. 11:56
Also... effects are the consequences and affect is pretending to have or feel something.
RealityCheck1993 intent is the most important factor to any action, the reactions to unintentional negative things are reacted to waaay out of proportion.
This sure aged well given the Trump "go back where you came from" comment this week.
Was that the shithole countries thing?
you mean someone telling a socialist from another country trying to turn this country into their home country to go back to where they came from?
are you saying you would never tell a Nazi to go back to where they came from (germany) really?
Mana Montana lol damn you are delusional.
@@mayainverse9429 Wait, Would you tell a Nazi to go back to Germany!?
@@mayainverse9429 You can keep your US BORN Nazis, we Germans don't want them and you couldn't send them back anyway, bc like I said - they are not Germans, being a Nazi does not mean you're German.
Also, the people you're talking about are also BORN IN THE US, so please shut up kindly.
DON'T SCROLL to the rest of the comments - you will regret it
It's floated up above yours, I'm afraid, but thanks for the warning :(
Mason Wang how dare people disagree with "progressive" dogma??
Don't continue reading. Different opinions are below. You may be offended! Save yourself before it's too late.
Yeah dont take the red pill
Are you afraid of opposing opinions? Online? Saddening
I was the only white kid in my Sunday school class and my first kiss was with a black girl. My school was on the edge of 1970's integration and I didn't experience an all white class room till college in the 1980's and that was a horrible experience. The things the other whites said who never knew integration was shocking. Seeing all the other whites' discomfort with my Creole girlfriend was sickening.
artsHscience creoles are gorgeous
+Lloyd Zed Ehhhhhh, I mean it's next to Texas (I'm pretty sure he's from Louisiana considering he's talking about Creole, cause I don't hear to many people besides Louisiana people talk about Creole) but wrong state so nah.
Lloyd Zed Sure, let's go with that.
I am white.
I grew up in a town in South Carolina that is predominantly black.
Y'all act like it's a thing of parents not caring, and kids not knowing how to act, and that might be true to a certain extent. But shit, the average SAT scores were like 1046. There were a lot of kids who made good grades. Only a handful actually dicked around and did nothing. There were some violence and drugs, but let's be real, that's fucking any high school in America at this point. Any white people that think there isn't already drugs and fights at the mostly-white schools are naive.
Halfway through junior year, my mom got arrested, leading me to go live with my dad an hour away, where I went to a different school, with mostly white kids. Just as much violence. Maybe even more rampent drug usage. Grades across the board were probably more or less the same. But I tell you what, the difference between the funding was night and day. Everybody had their own iPads, you didn't have to pay extra money just for simple things (lockers, parking permits, school IDs, etc.)
The teachers actually had time to do their jobs. And it makes a difference. The school I went to before, there were either teachers that were brand new, and maybe did care, but were really just trying to make it through their peer evaluations. Or, they were teachers who've been there for 30 years, and are just waiting to retire, and had pretty much checked out. The school itself was nicer, from aesthetics, to actual upkeep.
I'll agree that the problem isn't as simple as John Oliver was making it...but it sure as hell isn't as non-existent as a lot of y'all commenting make it either. I went from a C/D student at one place, to an A+ student at another, not really changing my attitude much along the way. That's not a coincidence.
BUT, and I am a liberal, but what John's describing is more classism than racism. Yes, I realize the two go hand-in-hand more often that not, but with that being said, the big problem is federal. Education receives a mere 6% of federal funding, and considering it's to educate our future, I feel like that's a little low. So when districts only have so much money to allocate, yes, they're going to put priority over the quote-unquote "nicer communities".
and I feel I should add, this wasn't no damn decades ago. I graduated in 2015.
And what excactly does this prove? That violence exists on both white and black schools? Obviously, nobody has argued otherwise.
Please do explain because I am lost :)
That to say giving opportunities to lower income kids, no matter the ethnicity, does not just suddenly bring down the entire school's performance...like those crazy ass parents in St. Louis were saying. The problem is more classism than racism, though the two can, and often do, go hand in hand.
And also, if there isn't going to be an increase in drugs or violence, the two "big ones" people like to use to say this sort've thing shouldn't transpire, then exactly why do certain people care? The same amount of tax-payer dollars is going to buses either way, so it's not financial. If things don't get any worse, it's not environmental. So...what is it?
+Nico By
Did you not watch the same video I watched? Or did you not watch it at all and just waded into the comment section full of preconceived opinions?
Because when a large portion of the video is discussing how people are using dog whistles as justification for segregating schools, pointing out that those dog whistles exist at the same degree at the school the people is fighting to keep segregated is an extremely valid point.
I find it interesting how when the parent was talking about how she wanted her child to not worry about being “stabbed “, the fact that most school shootings happen at predominantly white schools never crossed her mind.
The fact that the color of someones skin decides if we should care about them or not. I don't get how our species has managed to do so many great things but yet couldnt.seem to comprehend that we all human no matter where your from. The best argument being... Competitive behavior makes everyone better!(Only in theroy
She's a racist dingbat.
I'd rather deal with a minority person with a knife than an angry white person with an AR15. Statistical, mass shootings are predominantly a white man crime.
That's why she said stabbed.
Black kids cant take daddy's gun to school, cause daddy is in prison for having barely enough weed to get high on him 12 years ago.
They only own a shiv made out of old soap and newspaper shreds.
@@TheShatarEUisMyHome I'm reminded of that scene in My Name is Earl
God, I regret looking at the comments.
Agreed. I tell myself "never again", but I keep on making the same mistake.
Be careful, you might have to see other viewpoints that are different from the one you agree with.
I find it amusing. The people that complain about John not being funny, or entirely wrong, or lying, or making things up, or a liberal hack, they are here week after week pissing and moaning about his popularity. Yet, they are part of the reason he is so popular. If they'd stop watching he'd be less popular, but they can't help themselves. And their flailing comments give me another reason to come here. They can be as funny as the videos themselves.
Oh yes, God forbid that people express their own opinion and combat the lies and misinformation that Johnny McOliver spews out.
Feel free to go back to your safe space and pretending that reality doesn't exist.
+Remy Lebeau R U triggered?
they never mention asians in these stories. hmmmmm
That is because it will make the black kids look bad, since they bully the Asian kids the most.
Irate People nah it just makes ignorant racists like you look bad :/
You obviously aren't Asian, or you would know that black kids bully Asians the most.
Blacks beat the shit out of Asians that dare to go their school. But thats not racism because only whites can be racist.
Are you really that stupid? Srsly anybody could be racist
“Heavens to Betsy! That really fried my grits! Sir, you are a scoundrel without valor, without valor i say!”
Oh, he must be Georgian.
He forgot "bless your heart" and "I'll pray for you"
Never heard the grits one. I'm gonna start using it.
I've heard "kiss my grits!" Lol.
Also, why Georgia? Other than the last sentence, it sounded like what I hear it SC pretty regularly. :P
Carolinas/Virginia to me
The amount of times that I’ve heard “goodness gracious” or “heavens alive” from my aunt. I restrain myself daily from throwing a printer at her
I have a brother named Dylan AND THIS IS SO ACCURATE HE ACTUALLY IS THE FAVORITE. It got too real for me there 😂
man i was looking for this comment
Is he your lil brother? He must has to be :p
why can't the government take all the tax money and divide it equally among all schools. instead of letting the rich neighborhoods funding their rich schools and the poor neighborhoods end up not funding their schools. wtf is this?
Shh, you're not supposed to make sense when talking about politics.
ptegegn1 because people keep voting Republican to stop things exactly like this from happening.
A lot of the time it's because the poorer schools don't do as well. And since everyone likes being on the winning side, or backing the winning horse, they send more money to the schools that are doing better. But the inverse of this is also true: in my parish, the school board and system sent boatloads of money to the mostly black schools BECAUSE they were mostly black and had lower scores on a bunch of standardized tests while denying most funding to my school, which was better integrated and had much higher scores. From the POV of most of the people (and teachers) in my school, they were wasting money to fund an unappreciated education, instead of giving it to a school with kids who could do so much better with it.
ptegegn1 because a large portion of the tax money is already spent housing and feed a large portion of the black community.
ptegegn1 thats called socialism. Fucking communist
Yeah i dont get why people are so surprised that Racism is still here. This stuff didnt happen 200 years ago, as much as how some people choose to act like it is. It was very recent and now those same people are voting trump
Who?
Gumba Chris *Hitlery
Racism only became prominent when Obama became president.
Ah! ad hominem, the favorite tool for the intellectually deprived individuals.
not really it was just more quiet but those assholes were still and are still out there. but when trump gets elected they are gonna start poping up again.
I'm from Italy, and i know what the surname "Capacchione" means: is a dialectal way to say "person with a big head but small brain".
Holy shit lol 😂
So it's like "capoccione"?
@@landochabod7 Well, sort of. Capacchione is from the south of Italy, often changed in "Capucchiò", and is a playful insult. Capoccione in northern Italy can also mean a smart person, or a man who's in charge of something, and is often traslittered in "Capoccia".
@@grazianogiacobone4321 Ok, thanks. Being from northern Italy I'd never heard "capacchione" until today.
Cheers from Milan.
@@landochabod7 Zio, io sto a Molino Dorino.
Why not just fund schools with State taxes instead of property taxes instead of all these complicated workarounds?
Because rich people want their school districts to be far superior to everyone elses so when their kids grow up they will be in charge of society with a good education while everyone else has a poor education and will be the pions
You expect the politicians in those states to care enough to do it? No they are more focused on making people think they are disenfranchised so they can keep power.
That is how Canada does it and it works well. I can't imagine having my child bussed out of our area for school, that seems insane.
@@morganhillfightclub2996 Exactly. It's really about maintaining power and a class structure that benefits them. I'm from St. Louis and was bussed out to suburban schools starting in the 3rd grade, and I kid you not the 2nd and third graders out there were learning what the 5th graders in the city were learning.
@@morganhillfightclub2996 No because whenever people try to fix poor neighborhoods the locals scream 'Gentrification!' You don't give a homeless man $20 because you know how he will most likely spend it. Why would you give a government cash injection to a low SES, low educated area? Surely the solution lies in actually making fundamental changes to the culture that sustains such poverty i.e. rapping, gang membership > going to school and learning
I wonder what would happen if you asked our two presidential candidates how to fix segregated schools...
CLINTON: "Well I personally believe that segregation in our schools today is a major problem, which is why I believe that we need to deal with the threat that is Russia immediately."
TRUMP:" Let me be honest with you, school segregation is a problem in this country that especially affects states like Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. That's why we need to build a wall around every school and make minorities pay for it. And did mention that I will win the Latino/Hispanic/Muslim/African American/Asian/Women vote?
i don't think trump knows that many states.
SolSmoke teleprompter maybe?
Racism could have been over. The media has kept it alive for money. I'm not just taking about the right leaning media. The left media also fans the flames and tries to get people to believe that cops exclusively kill minorities despite the fact that overall police violence has been steadily going down since the 90s and deaths by police are well rounded across all races
I'll fix that bit:
"... affects states like California... and all of 'em!"
I think psychology kind of proves that racism can never be eradicated.
I'm white, and I wish I was exposed to more people of color growing up. I live in Maine, and acccording to the census, the population has never dropped below 95% Caucasian. I wasn't exposed to anything outside of what I saw on TV, so as I got older and actually started meeting and making friends with people of color, I became really worried that I might say or do something that would come off as racist without me meaning it to. I'm still really worried about that today. As I've gotten older and considered how isolated I was growing up, I feel like less isolation would have helped me a lot in terms of social interaction & understanding and considering the struggles people of color face today. (I feel like I explained that last part in a weird way, but all right...)
Katie Martin I think you should explain this to your friends of color and ask them to tell you if you ever say something racist or offensive without meaning to. :)
How did make it okay to call blacks colored people again???
that's incredibly racist.
Virginia SuperSand They said people of color, not colored people. People of color(poc) is a widely accepted way to refer to people of different races since this person wasn't just referring to only African Americans but all different races(Asian, Latinx, insert every race that isn't Caucasian). Please learn how to read first before you start calling people with good intentions a racist.
Virginia SuperSand it's called "people first language." Saying colored people was offensive because it boils them down to just their descriptor. Instead when you say people of color, you emphasize that they are people and that their color is one part of them. It's the same reason it's better to say "people with disabilities" instead of "disabled people." There's so much more to them than their disabilities
It's also more inclusive than just saying "black people" because it casts a wider net of people, who may or may not identify as black
This video is even more relevant and and still needed today.
Where that little boy is concerned, he didn't know about the history, he didn't see it as bad he wanted to portray some one he respected, he honestly did it with love in his heart.
My names Dylan and I have two other siblings, and this just made my day 😂
do you do your own laundry tho?
Yeah, do you do your own laundry man?
To be clear, it is actually Dillon who is the favorite. Common mistake, because of the sound.
@@james.randorff is that Randorph with a "P-H" or an "F"?
Wow. Cool
I was doing hw but then...
literally same
dang me too
Mitchell Lazarow I graduated last year. 😎
I was having sex but then...
Edgedable good for you, tell your sister I said hi
My friend's mother had the privilege to be sent to a mostly black and Latino school when she was a kid. She said the black girls repeatedly tried to light her hair on fire. Eventually she pretended to be Puerto Rican so the Latinos would protect her during the routine brawls that occurred.
anyone can be racists,there are just as many if not more black and latino racicts in america then whites,propagandasts whores owned by mtv like douchey oliver here dont understand reality there fake liberal trendy virtue signaling propaganda whores period.
I went to a public school and the teachers literally taught that only white people were capable of racism because they were the majority and in power. And that minorities literally cannot be racist because they weren't in power. It's this type of shit John Oliver line of thinking that creates more problems for minorities. The fact is: If you were to ever take the bus in LA you'd know that the only fights you see are between Black people and Latino people. They hate eachother. It's designed to be this way
That's very unfortunate for her. Keep in mind these schools are no different from schools anywhere else in which the students are usually fuckheads. It's not surprising that a group of kids are mocking someone for not looking like them, because this is something that occurs in all schools. Bullying is present across the board, your mom's friend is no outlier. This also applies to +Skchalivetlnd and +Kyle T. The point you're making is that kids will be assholes to other kids. Kids do stupid things. Don't sit on a high chair and pretend that you didn't do stupid shit in school.
I live in Europe and went to a school where until I was 10 there wasn't even 1 black child. I can tell you that kids will always bully others. If not for their skin color then for how they act, what they like or just because they feel like it. Skin color is just so easy and obvious for children. So as a white person getting getting almost bullied to death in a white school I can tell ya racism is just an easy way for people to let out their anger. They will find something different about you and the moment they do your life becomes hell.
+KyleT & +BackStreetsBackAlright Amen to both of you. I really like John Oliver, but there isn't an impartial or fair bone in his body which is why he will always be a step down from Jon Stewart. Like him or not, he would on occasion hammer the Obama administration when they did something that he thought was wrong. People like Oliver will never admit just how strongly racism exists in the African American community. I don't know if it's denial or deliberate, but when you a black mob going through the streets of a major American city advocating violence towards whites, that's a problem.
My son (3rd grade) has gone to mostly black schools since he was 4. It breaks my heart that his schools have all had fewer resources, but his teachers have been amazing, and he doesn't see race as a factor when making friends
It doesn't matter what I do, if I succeed its because I'm white. If I fail it's because I didn't take advantage of my privilege. If I'm racist, its because I'm white. If I'm not racist, I'm still racist because I'm white. I am so fucking tired of being told I suck because I'm a white man. That shit is making me want to say fuck it, and just be racist. I'm gonna be called one anyways.
In a country that systematically oppresses minorities, if you are of a Caucasian background, you probably have it better off than most other ethnicities. If you fail, its on you and I know for a fact that a very minuscule amount of people (and politicians) actually believe white people are inherently racist. I don't understand how none of this is obvious.
Tallbartender Yeah... That just makes you sound kinda week to me. Caving to the thoughts of others. If you know it's not true either ignore it or try to logically fight that misrepresentation.
Poor lad! I have news for you ese! Judgement like this happens for everyone. Man, woman, black, white, purple.
Everyone gets judged wrongfully! The white man usually has it even easiest. So stop crying about this and take responsibility yourself in stead of wasting time nagging, blaming stuff on that.
I mean I wouldn't go as far as to think that we should just say fuck it and be racist but I definitely agree a lot of people unreasonably assume every white male or female is more privileged than everyone else and is inherently racist. That's a stereotype. Its completely messed up to just assume a minority is poor or is a criminal because that's obviously not something that's true. The whole don't judge a book by it's cover thing goes both ways.
Yes I am sure life is really hard for you. Boo hoo hoo. Grow up!
this isn't white guilt, you shouldn't feel personally responsible for this, but yelling " white guilt!!1 " every time someone of your complexion does something wrong rather than face the issue is stupid
you as white people, us a people, should try and help the system
You should stop blaming everything on whites and also stop making up issues where there are none. POC need to take responsibility for their situations in 2016 not just finding a way to relate it back to the whites again. I can say as a white person, we are sick of this bullshit and it is coming to a boiling point. Wouldn't be surprised if there was a race war in a few years...
You're the problem.
Video Editing Guy Thank you for proving my point. Have a racist day :)
Video Editing Guy Yes you did, their point was that you're problematic and your attitude is proving her point.
Good old, malcolm X. Always telling the truth.
Big fan of Malcom. Most people don’t know how radical he was. Almost the polar opposite of MLK Jr. in every way.
@@TheDanielLivingston you should go look at more of MLK's speeches including all of his "I Have A Dream" speech and you'll see more similarities between the two than people think.
@@sterlingw.8821 I've watched the I Have a Dream speech a few times through...can you explain more on what you mean?
@@TheDanielLivingston
Malcolm was a lot less radical than people think he was, especially after his hajj where he saw black west African Muslims and Bosnian/Albanian Muslims treating one another as brothers. He became less of a black separatist but retained his militant more views. Martin was also more radical than people give him credit for.
Great video, but this comment section is the worst thing I've ever had the displeasure of viewing in my entire life.
Really I thought the video was uninformative! It explained next to nothing, played videos from the 60's and had a old black dude talking about racism he faced has a child! WTF does any of that have to do with today? It is illegal for those schools not to allow black kids that live in the district access to those PUBLIC schools! This video was bull shit!
The video wasn't supposed to be a complete detailed history and in depth discussion on segregation, but a conversation starter. Whole books have been written about this subject, if you're hungry to know more than go research. If you want to change something, don't waste time here on RUclips, go call some politicians, start a movement, join a movement. The video was meant to be amusing yet thought provoking to ease dormant and desensitized people into the idea of making a change.
(The point of the older videos was to provide background and history while -I believe- also showing how very little has changed about racism psychologically in our society)
Sarah L First off there is not segregation in 2016! Its fucking illegal! This has more to do with unfair school funding laws and where you live! This also affects poor white kids, in poor white communities! This is all about race baiting and you fell for it!
C'mon Jacob. I suggest you read about "white flight" and "desegregation". Whites had already moved to the suburbs with their wealth before legal housing discrimination and segregation ended in the 60s. In GENERAL, white people control most of the wealth in America for systemic reasons.
Move to a black neighborhood for a few months and get back to me.
I've always found the expression "chocolate and vanilla" weird when used to describe contrasting colors. A Vanilla pod is dark brown and the vanilla seeds are black. :S So, well, they're basically the same color.
SO what you're saying here is not that this is a school segregation problem, but a community segregation problem. To which you never explained why the communities are segregated.
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The poor can't live in other neighborhoods because they can't afford it.
TheFinalChapters because with poorer schools mean poor education which means low paying jobs which means they can't afford (mostly) to move up above what their parents make which means they will settle in the same area repeating the cycle. Or was that subtext not clear enough for you?
sukrpunch So it has nothing to do with race or segregation then.
TheFinalChapters you missed the part where it was the black community school zones that were under funded and how when desegregation cam in all of the sudden the money followed the white children to that school?
sukrpunch Obviously a poorer community is going to result in a poorer school. That has nothing to do with race, merely wealth.
When I did my gap year in the US, it is one of the things that marked me the most. I came from a very diverse city and school. I had never been in a class with only white people until I came to the US. I would ride the school bus and drive by the other school in the area, a much poorer neighborhood, most of the kids were Latino and African American. I really thought it was so strange :/
(As a foreigner I didn't receive any racism in that school, but I'm also white).
You wouldn't receive racism in a white school, if you are white as well, regardless of whatever nation you're from..
@@sashacooke263 that's not true. If he is jewish or irish he could've in the south
Marco Polo the Irish thing doesn’t really matter in the south anymore.
@@marcopolo2028 do most even know about the whole Irish thing
@@sashacooke263 I assume the point is: it‘s not about where you‘re from but what you look like to those people
That school swap thing was sad
I thought the inherent sexism of the situation was sad. That ''school swap'' contained a rape threat.
its kinda messed up really. SOmebody must have made it to expose the system I guess?
@@L5940 are you talking about that fictional puff piece film section with the blonde haired girl attending a school swap that was obviously a fear-mongering scripted piece? or did i forget something from this really dense video?
Alexander Moehl- because they were forcing kids to buss to alleviate segregation, or because of the inherent racism in allowing kids to attend segregated schools? (i find it best to ask these questions since i'm often surprised at the answers to what people assume to be obvious).
@@slavesforging5361 I think Alexander was referring to the once-a-year, one-day-only school swap between city and county.
Northerners in the civil war era:
"Slavery is an abomination! It's evil!"
Same northerners:
"Ew, get away from me!"
Thats just like me with weebs ahahaha :'l
No the north was racist just less so.
Piano Fry They we’re both equally racist just in different ways .
They right with the first and wrong with the second.
What up, late night homies
Bitch it's 7:30 here! The fuck do you live?
JL Junio 2:30 AM here in Toronto
JL Junio 1:37 am texas
JL Junio same
Anywhere in the US? It's 2:44 AM here
The child that gets more exposure early on, ends up being more mature, practical & open minded later.
I've seen this with a lot of army kids where the families keep moving across India.
Genie #GlassLamp man isn’t it just great going around the internet and intentionally wasting your life on dumbass shit like your miserable do-for-nothing life?
The reason Northern schools are more segregated, while Southern schools are not, has to do with affluence. Whites in Southern states are closer in income to the poverty line, just like minorities. While Whites in Northern schools are more middle class, which means the real estate is more expensive, thus excluding poor minorities. The property taxes in those affluent areas are also more plentiful, therefore schools are better funded. That's the problem with local funding. Centralize school funding to balance it out a bit more.
I feel like property tax to fund schools was either the work of an idiot, or the work of some very intelligent racists.
RageAgainstTraditionalUS that always confused me as i always thought that Southern Whites would be richer since Northern Whites are descended from poor immigrants from Europe while Southerners lived there for generations since before the US in wealthy plantations and farms.
+GhostInTheShell29 or maybe its about anti-communism. a sysyem where everything is divided equally. so I guess you're pro-communist American. Gratz on being the minority in a democratic system.
+Saad BK You think that because you are uninformed about economic statistics.
Money4Nothing
What do you mean?
Are you inferring that the Southern states are actually wealthier than the North?
I went to 2 schools in upstate ny, and have been going to a school in louisiana for a few years now. In new york there was one black family in the whole town. I was awkward when talking to and about black folks because I was never exposed. I just didn't know how to act, I didn't want to be rude in any way. But when I moved to louisiana, that awkwardness wore off. I didn't need to learn to coexist because we were different, I needed to learn that we were so incredibly similar we naturally coexist.
This doesn't really make sense as Im re-reading it, but I hope my point gets across. All that seperates white people from a black folks is a few phenotypes and centuries of us being dicks to them for no justifiable reason. Thats my highschool kid perspective
Leon LeBlond I understand perfectly because that’s pretty much what I wanted to say. My God we are people and we all need the same thing to survive 😘
Same thing with me. I didn't have any kids that were non-white in my school until after 8th grade. Then there were 2 black kids and maybe a handful of other minorities... Out of 1,200 kids. 1 of the black kids got bullied so badly that he left our school :/
Do you realize that blacks are a MINORITY in America and that's why you will see less Black kids?! Is it so strange to you to see less Asian kids in your school? Is your school racist against asians?
Leon LeBlond I really like your perspective!
SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
i think the root of the problem is housing and funding... and unconscious bias
Why did you not address the colleges made exclusively for black people? Is that not segregation because they want only black students no Latinos or anyone else?
Do you have an example of a black college that denies admittance to white students?
SaucerheadTharp Look up black colleges and the acceptance rate for both Latinos, asaians, and white, it is observable
lakamokolaka
Ok. But that isn't evidence of white students being denied. The easiest explanation is that whites, latinos, and asians aren't applying to attend.
SaucerheadTharp
Neither is john oliver video either, but it still labeled segregation now isn't it?
lakamokolaka
Wait...you think black students don't go to white schools because they don't apply?
I'm white and I see my own White privilege and know that I myself have my own implicit biases, I just wish all white people in American knew that.
I wish all people, regardless of race, gender, etc, could see it.
You are merely a boomerang bigot taking a dump on people for their skin colour. You are a racist, that you are racist against whites, and you yourself are white means nothing. There is no white privilege. When black communities make fun, call the black "uncle tom"-s and try to drag down the other blacks who try to have normal lives, jobs and education, its not the other peoples fault that they have a culture that holds them back.
You mad bro? You seem triggered.
Blake H. What white privileges are you talking about.? Please do everyone a favor and stfu
Blake is PC bro... He'll throw down.
that parent who almost singlehandedly dismantled Charlotte's racial integration was named "Capacchione"
This is the most entitled and pretentious sounding surname I've even heard
Man, sucks for the kids and I can't believe this is still an issue. I was raised in an area with a lot of immigrants from all over the world (Canada), and I don't even remember having any discussions about race with my peers. We didn't even notice it; we all played and got along! The only people who would even bring it up were certain parents, but even they were the minority. I miss those days; a bunch of people working hard and living in peace. Why are we regressing to stupidity?
Polina Sutyrina If only have of all the people out there thought like you ://
There are so many other important things we have to focus on in life like
cure deceases
preserve the environment
explore other planets..
Just why the f are we killing each other for so many years?
I would never harm anyone. I just don't get it.
There are so many possibilities to compete with other people -> sports
Somedays I'm a dreamer... I know but I'm not the only one, right, John?
Polina Sutyrina holy shit we have the same name
Race absolutely shouldn't be an issue, but we're forced to talk about it because unfortunately America never really progressed. We still have a shitload of racists here.
Polina Sutyrina BRO I LIVE IN NEW YORK ITS TRUE ACTUALLY EVERY SCHOOL I GO TO THERE IS BARELY ANY BLACK TEACHERS JUST WHITE TEACHERS I WAS DO FUCKING SHOCKED YALL
I should let you all know, whether you lean left, lean right, or lean beef (sorry, bad pun, I had to), that the issue isnt necessarily white schools getting more money, Jon Oliver has made videos about the education system before. The main issue should actually be, as he pointed himself, that the american education system would rather invest in football stadiums and using drones to blow up schools in the middle east.
Canada dosent have segregation problems, and we are much higher on things like literacy than our neighbors, because we put importance into education, not sabotaging other peoples education because "if america cant be number 1, it should at least not be last"
Education in America isn't sub par because of football stadiums and war (welfare entitlement spending is 2 trillion, the military is only allocated 660 million). Education is sub par because school districts force integrate schools with inner city problems. Inner City schools aren't shit because they have no funding, it's because the inner city culture doesn't value education. Education in the American suburbs is very good, and rivals private schooling. The problem is schools within metropolitan areas, where the county controls the school district and gerrymanders lines to educate by the lowest common denominator. My city does it. I work hard and live in an upper middle class suburb, but my children would be forced to go to a school in the city, rather than one in my suburb because it's "fair". It isn't fair to the children who are being cheated out of a decent education because the school wants to redistribute education and tax dollars. Education tax dollars should stay in the area where they are paid.
+Neil McCauley Lmao, so basically what you're trying to say is you think its the poor community's fault that their schools are underfunded? LMFAO smh
So your saying that It's okay for children to just be cheated out of an education because of where they live and there is no point in trying to make it so there are more children with good educations that can function well in society. Glad, I don't want kids.
Quick question: Any idea why inner city schools don't value education?
You seemed to have completely left out historical context.
Also, public education in suburbs being "very good" is relative to other public schools in America. If you don't think there's a severe lack of attention being paid to actual education, then you're likely a product of it.
So if your suburban school is so good, would you have any objection to having city kids bused to it so they can experience a good education? It's not the kids' fault that their parents can't afford to live in the nice suburbs. Doesn't a true meritocracy require equality of opportunity?
I'm sorry, but who is teaching this "White folk are better than you" class? Uncle Ruckus (no relation)?
*****
So the anecdotal people around you are garbage. Super.
tom toms well we've got a middle eastern chap in our class, he's great fun he plays on the stereotypes by making jokes about them. He's not bullied and I dare say that he's friends or at least not enemies with all of those whom he knows(except for the teacher, he's a bit rowdy sometimes). And frankly the schools racial composition is as bout 760 to 19. But no one does try to cause unnecessary harm.
tom toms "I never in my life have seen a white person getting discriminated against in school" ...Why? Are you clinically blind? ...Or perhaps you're just racially insensitive to the plight of white kids.
One time I had a Phish fan give me DMT and play the didgeridoo while I tripped and went to another world.
It’s weird how accurate that Phish joke was.
There were only 4 black kids in my high school, I was one of them and it was terrible.
i was a white kid in a all white school and it was very bad.
Flame Beats I live in a major city.
I went to a school that was mixed and it was great, black and Latino kids were the only ones that stood up to the white bullies (except for one bully because he was huge and scary) who picked on mostly white kids including me.
Maybe bc you were a complete loser bro
I went to a all white/asian school
Also, I'm guessing people in this comment section would like to get rid of affirmative action. Guess what, integrating primary and secondary schools is a great way to making it obsolete.
While I think that's a pretty good suggestion, it still doesn't speak to the institutional racism that still would be in play when it comes to how students are treated. Teachers are not blind and have been known to favor certain students and ignore or berate others. The lesson of how to deal with the issue of racism is still going to exist and still needs to be addressed directly if we really are going to destroy it.
Dean Anderson True. The actual function of interacting with students would be unchanged. I was only trying to address the unfairness people feel around affirmative action, which is sort of necessary given the disparity in elementary and high school education.
But hopefully once you give everyone equal educational opportunities, the amount of students of color in college will rise, and thus teachers and institutions would eventually change their mindset and cater to their needs while challenging their biases.
I guess my problem is I see people purposefully maintaining these issues. In a perfect world, yes racism would have ebbed away. I guess in a "perfect" world, it would never have existed. But the point is, white people have all the advantages. THAT is their "normal." So, when something comes along like Affirmative Action to help balance the playing field, even a little, that is seen as an "attack." This is just one of the dozens of reasons why the conversation about race in America is so difficult and why you hear about white people complaining about "being punished" because they are white.
This is challenging, but if we can't resolve this, there's not much hope for any humans anyhow.
Dean Anderson I feel you. There will absolutely be push back on basic solutions for equality (this comment section is rife with them). Racism won't just be defeated passively by putting people together, but it is the first step. Protests then policy and cultural change are the ultimate goals.
So you don't care about sending kids across the city and not having any parental involvement in their schools?
Or you do support gentrifying communities to help increase diversity?
You are, of course, against segregating college dorms because that's wrong, right? No POC-only dorms or clubs, right?
Unlike most people in this comment section I went to school in a liberal dream of busing city. And it sucked. For the white kids. The black kids. The hispanic kids.
No one's parents came to stuff because it was all the way across the city and especially the poorer parents couldn't make it to any events. Teachers still wouldn't stay at these schools because they're still based on property taxes and sending middle class kids to the ghetto doesn't magically give that school more money.
Also, please tell me where Oliver's kids will go to school? A posh, private school where they'll get a great education or a wonderfully de-segregated, failing public school with metal detectors, no teacher retention, no AP classes, etc?
Be honest.
That test they gave the girl was total bull. "Who's the bad child"? Imagine giving that to an adult and saying, "Which of these people are you most/least likely to be friends with?" Based purely off skin colour, it's probably going to be the child with the most similar/least similar skin tone to you.
John Jekyllson the correct answer would be "what bad child"
The question was asked to a child not an adult, you cannot expect her to respond outside of the options given.
I took an IQ test as a child, and for a lot of the test they ask children questions and base the results on how they answered the question. this is because while you can't expect children to be able to things like pattern recognition involving math, you CAN expect children to think "outside of the box". children are kinda known for being creative after all ;)
she didn't hesitate answering the way she did because it's ingrained in her that that's the answer. if she actually thought that "none of the children were bad" she would have acted as such.
Actually... they famously did that test with black children as well and they too named the darkest child the "bad child" or the "ugliest child". It's not science. Oh wait, no, it is. It's psychology.
They also found differences between countries - the USA is pretty bad in comparison.
Dumpknoedel psychology isn't a science
The problem is the Supreme judges who have been around since slavery whose parents been around since slavery still have that segregation in their blood
Racism doesn’t go away because some people die. You must change the system to get rid of systemic racism.
There are no 154 year olds on the Supreme Court
Lol at 8:58 I died laughing because my older brothers name is Dylan... I always knew mother loved him more
Audrey Hebert I don't know him and even I like him
Audrey Hebert everyone has that older brother the mother loves more
I think people naturally self segregate. On the micro level, your family is obviously the same race as you, and a lot of people choose same race friends. On the macro level, entire countries with unique culture and customs and everything keep together and separate themselves. It doesn't mean it's a bad thing or they hate others
+awarebrah but that doesn't mean it's okay to discriminate against people because they're black/any other race. To me it's only natural to want to be with people of your race because no ones going to be racist against you.
At least, I think that's how it is. I'm white.
You do your avatar proud.
how does that relate to skin colour though? I mean, would two US citizens, both born in the country (with even their grand-grand-grand-parents being born there as well), one white and one black, both coming from working class households and both raised and living in the same region, really differ that much "culturally"?
This is a good proposition. But we have to remember that not everyone has choice. The wealthy have the luxury of choice, the poor do not. No matter how much you want to 'self-aggregate' in a good public school district, it doesn't matter if you can't afford the real estate or the property tax.
That's psychologically correct. Everyone is naturally more sympathetic towards people that look like themselves.
That mom really just let her kid go out in blackface instead of explaining that is inappropriate. YIKES.
@@strangelyukrainian7314 obvious troll is obvious. You already know why it's wrong and you are bringing up a bad faith argument just to court controversy and drama.
How was that kid more inappropriate then any other actor on TV?
If a actor is portraying a Indian he wears skins and feathers after getting a good tan.
If a actor is portraying anyone, that actor dresses and tries to look and act like the person he is portraying.
That kid did exactly what he had to do to be recognized as the person he was portraying.
If he had not blacked his face he would have looked like Hitler instead of King.
If anyone was to blame, it was the teacher that made him try to look like a black man.
@@TheCanopyco you know that blackface isn't ok when it's on TV either, right?
@@TheCanopyco It's equally inappropriate for an actor to put on brown face to play a Native American on TV. If you are casting a character that is a real person, you should always cast someone who is from that actual race (unless you are trying to make a statement like Taika Waititi playing Hitler in Jojo Rabbit where the point is to explicitly disrespect Hitler).
The teacher didn't force that child to put on blackface. The kid could have just put on the suit and the fake moustache. I blame the parent who didn't explain to her child that it's not appropriate to put on blackface.
Most of that "inappropriate" stuff is just pandering to people that want to be offended so that they can manipulate you. It's inappropriate for a white kid to play a black kid, or to tell any race that they can only play the parts that match their race. So, do you let the black kid play the part of a famous white guy, and if so how you going to do that without painting that black kid white. No matter what you do those who want to be offended will be offended
because that gets them what they want.
btw this is all about race and in no way about class RIGHT???
not it's the whites again. Boys I can feel a ...... *race war* a comin'
Bob The Almighty Destroyer of Worlds and Bringer of Rectal Fissures I know, right? You'd think that John Oliver, a man who spent most of his life in the UK, where nearly everyone is pasty white, and class is far more of an issue than skin color, would get this.
Bob, he specifically said that race is often tied to class.
I guess you slept on the part where he said these two social markers are inextricably linked?
Yondaime No I don't remember everything he said. I'd disagree with race and class being inextricably linked, but they definitely are linked. Still class is the more important factor here not race.
I still don't get how blackface is always racist, no matter what. I only consider it racist when you attach stereotypes to the character you are portraying. Otherwise, it is like wearing a wig or dying your hair for a role. Are white voice actors voicing black characters racist implicitly? In normal everyday life, it is certainly at least questionable, but in acting, blackface really shouldn't be considered a hate crime in itself.
You understand something that alludes many: Racism is a matter of intent, not action.
That's one of the few things in this video that left me baffled. The kid did absolutely nothing wrong, he's portraying a historical character and from what I saw he did it reasonably well.
Whites haven't had the same experience of being mocked that way. It's truly demeaning to those who've been on the receiving end. The kid (more like his parents) needed to learn that you wear the character's clothes, not his skin color.
Rented Mule It's not the kid's fault, it's the mom's. She knows better. And no, intent doesn't matter. Ignorance isn't an excuse.
Robert Downey Jr did it and it wasn't racist.
Does he talk about the SJW's at Berkeley and others demanding segregation?
No.
I thought the whole video would be about this, literally discriminating entirely based on race, but no, focused on an issue that really has nothing to do with race, but class, because FuckWhitePeople agenda.
No, because he's not Alex Jones.
EDD Fire
If you truly believe that this issue has nothing to do with race, I'll suggest you go and reevaluate American history from the beginning
+Tyler Swagar THIS
A MILLON TIMES THIS
of course not. He wouldn't want to stumble upon the uncomfortable truth that liberals are behind this. they are making "POC" unberable to be around, cooperate with and live with by filling their heads up with all this drivel about white people being evil and how it's OK to act like a cunt to them
A month or so ago a girl in one of my classes said her language arts temporary sub remade a seating chart and put white kids on one side of the class and colored kids on the other, and said she’d be keeping an eye on one side of the room. Big oof, most of those kids reported that teacher, she just got a warning and she changed the seating chart
I live in Kenya and 5:09 had me in tears LMFAO😂😂😂😂😂
KIMZ AUTO lol😂😂same
Seems the show has a lot of Kenyan fans. Watching from Kenya too and that come back was golden
Haki. Me to 😂
same bro
eheeeee...he mentions Kenya quite often...either Kenya is the only African country he knows or he's been eating some Kenyan Samosa from Nakuru 😈😈
And even West Side Story didn't work. They freaking whitewashed that film!
Yeah I found about that from their "How Is This Still A Thing?" segment earlier this year.
LOL, it's a remake of Romeo and Juliet
For never was a story of more woe than this of a white boy and a white girl with too much make up
Internet Hate Machine yeah and Romeo and Juliet were based on Tristan and Isolde and that was probably based on vis and ramin
Annie. Nuff said. Get rekt.
I started my school days in NY, and there was 1 black kid, I moved to Florida at 8 years old and my school here was a cultural melting pot...everyone insults southern culture as more racist but that's not my experience
For some parts it is true and for some parts it isn’t also even though Florida is geographically in the south it isn’t really considered you know “the south”. If you know what I mean. In florida the more north you go the more southern it gets in my experience. Source: Me. I live in south florida been to north florida a couple times.
That was my experience in Florida as well. "I've always wanted to spend some time in a city so nice they named it Jacksonville" Ash vs Evil Dead.
Damn straight, my nigga
Yeah, I live in NC myself, and I don't know why we get such a bad rap to this day. 55% of blacks in the US live in the south, and our middle class where I live is mixed. Every time I visit another part of the country, it seems more segregated and there is more racial tension. It's not even a big deal if you grow up with all kinds of people.
But that's the narrative and they are sticking to it.
I attended a high school that was around 4% diverse. Almost all students, teachers, and staff were white. It was a rural white conservative echo chamber. Any opinion that wasn’t the major got shut down and I was often harassed for my political opinions. I wish my school would’ve been more diverse, it definitely would’ve helped mine and other students world view.
Let's talk about that kid's black-person makeup (it's not actually blackface, which is the way white actors painted their face to look like dark clowns). What that kid wore was more dignified and was meant as an homage rather than to offend. Like wearing a costume for Halloween.
So is an action inherently racist just because some people used to do something similar for racist purposes? Doesn't intent count for something? Or is it that white kids are only allowed to portray white role models and black kids are only allowed to portray black role models?
My opinion is that if you go around calling actions (and words) racist *regardless* of intent, then you're still encouraging the segregation of races. Only black people are allowed to say and do these specific things. Only Mexican people are allowed to say and do these specific things. And if you happen to not be black or not be Mexican then you are excluded from participating with those groups when they eventually start saying and doing things that would be racist for anyone else to say or do.
That kid will probably never demonstrate his admiration for anyone other than a white person again, lest his actions be deemed racist.
I was looking for this comment, I was about to make my own because I wasn't finding it. I don't see how people can't see that by making it wrong to do your best to accurately portray a historical figure, you're drawing attention to race and making it a bigger issue than it needs to be. There is nothing wrong with what that kid did, he was trying his best to look like Martin Luther King, and he clearly respected the man to try so hard. He wasn't turning black people into a joke, he was trying to represent them accurately.
Pebkio Nomare I think the offense comes in because his parents/teachers didn't teach him about the past. He's portraying a figure from an era where blackface was socially acceptable and used to mock blacks. And he painted his face black. Maybe in the future it will be less of a big deal...
"What that kid wore was more dignified and was meant as an homage rather than to offend. Like wearing a costume for Halloween."
Do you see the contradiction there, or...?
GTFOH. Ignorance can't excuse mistakes. This is 2016. His parents knew that was wrong. I never buy the "I was unaware" excuse. Black face was not created to depict clowns. I'm an African American scholar. Black face was created to push Black stereotypes of our supposed inhumanity and stupidity. Have you never watched an old film w/ an actor in Black face? Since when do clowns walk around talking to people, acting subservient, killing white people and raping white women?
To be fair to that parent whose child didn't get into the school she wanted; It seems as though she lost her spot in the school strictly because a quota needed to be met. I would be upset as well. If my child had performed well enough to be accepted, but was refused for the sake of diversity, I wouldn't believe that is right. School admissions should be based on merit alone. If there are 500 openings for students, the top 500 should be accepted. The end goal of eliminating racism should be that people be judged only by their character. Telling these institutions that X/500 people should be white, Y/500 should be black, etc, is the opposite of that goal. In my mind, assuming the girl had the grades to be accepted, she lost her spot in that school simply because she was white, which looks like systematic racism if you ask me
Alex Hutcheson those students had to perform just as well to get in as well, often with less resources. That's why the quota exists, black families don't have the resources that father did to find that school and spend time with the raffle. A lot of times they don't even know about the opportunities.
The quotas exist so we can catch up, they're not there just because
Mr Trash my little brother is extremely intelligent, but would fail an exam like that due to severe ADHD. He performs well overall in class, but one bad day and he'll fail a test, as in in the 3rd grade one day he failed a test to get him to move on to the fourth grade, a little while later with no prep he aced it just because he was able to reign it in that day. This means he could get screwed over if he had a bad day for one of those entrance exams.
***** In the US the disparity is huge. My own school had caving in floors, boys and girls shared locker rooms and we were offered a fraction of the classes and the predominantly white schools.
Alex Hutcheson Well she lost the lottery to be accepted in the school. While there were seats reserved for black kids, all of the kids picked were random.
***** In the US it's not happenstance, systemic racism is the root cause for the racial wealth disparity
this comment section is unreal... but to add some positivity thank you for addressing the topic of post war classism and racism in the us. its rarely discussed or even acknowledged. so to see it is super refreshing.
Seriously. I don't know what I expected when I scrolled down, but I was hoping for something better. Instead it's nothing but white people claiming that black people are the problem, black people vilifying white people and claiming it's not racist if they do it, and zero accountability on both sides... Have we learned NOTHING?
Alexander Haley yes! Gosh the comprehension skills of some people are soooo low! I knew I shouldn't have read the comment section ugh
the only thing i learn about "racism stories" is that there are only 2 race in this world and asian and any other groups are not important as black people to be on the news. :/
kid, by the time your balls drop you will be forced to rethink things, as you will then be a white man, and at the top of the hit list.
All of us, white, black, Latino, Asian, American Indian, are being screwed by the Military-medical-prison-msm-industrial complex. Let's unite. Vote for the candidate who recognizes this and is bringing us together.
Bernie 2020 brother!
Am i the only one who gets excited when the see Dan Girwitch in the graphics?
yes
Nope! Still a fan of him since the CollegeHumor days~ :3
Nope, it's fucking awesome seeing how far he's come. Good for him, because he's kicking ass
DeadpoolAndFriends dude, I was just about certain that I was going to be one of the only people that noticed...
I knew a Dylan, he was a drug dealer
yo whaddup
He would never take off his jacket
man's not hot babes
Dylan sold me drugs
My first name is Dylan, picked up some herbs from my uncle, you want some?
My name is Dylan and I can confirm Oliver's statement.
ohstate411 what
fuck you dillan
There can only be one
I showed this to someone called Dylan, and he may have gone insane about it, saying his parents hated him. So John Oliver... I never thought I would say this, but... You got me punched in the face.... WORTH IT
John Oliver and team: keep up the great work! Your efforts are clever, witty and much appreciated.
To sum up, there is no "segregation" in schools.
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americanv8ss Are you brain dead dipshit
FreeKickerz_Portland I'm not
TheCatLord what about be a rapper...
americanv8ss go back to school. their are 2 types of segregation De jure(spelling?) and de facto. De jure is legal segregation de facto is situational segregation that is not legally enforced. Most middleschools teach this.
John Oliver for fucking president.
Afraid he can't. He wasn't born here.
No! You don't have to be born here! You're right! There's hope! Mm, no, but politics would probably ruin him...
Elizabeth Lingurar you do need to be a natural born citizen of the United states, it's in the Constitution
bobthehobo231 he's not even a citizen as far as I know
Elizabeth Lingurar it kinda already is.. he cant get off the fucking topic anymore
This happens in the UK, maybe not by race but by income, I came from a poor home, the richer families went to better secondary schools, my parents couldn't pay for the bus fare to the better rated schools. It turns I went to a really caring school who wanted the best for all pupils, not just good exam results. I was fortunate but a lot of people I've met in my working career do make assumptions on me based on my heavy working class accent, they will assume i'm stupid because they never came across working class people during their education.
Such disparities due to income difference is present in every country whose education system is not strictly socialist. As long as private schools are present, they will be better than government schools, because if they are not, there is no point in them. This is one of the cornerstones of capitalism. As long as you earn good money, you and your children will have better opportunities. This is not so much a problem as racial segregation, because almost all believe racial segregation is bad.
My hometown is 90% Hispanic and this explains why we're all assholes.
SinnedNogara There are very little where I am. My poor son has yet to date a Latina. I wish I could be a asshole, lol
Do you live in Nogales, Arizona?
Can confirm. And my hometown is more like 70%
Facts=/=racism :P
GuerreroMisterioso95 Las Vegas, NM
It benefits everyone for us to all grow up with people from a diverse background. I grew up with black people because the white kids made fun of me and the black kids were nice to me. I grew up seeing them as people just like me. I think that kind of understanding is missing for a lot of people and it really is to their detriment and to the detriment of a civil society. I think that we need to purposely start coming together and talking to one another about what it's like to be us. We need to raise people's consciousnesses about what it's like to be someone else. We need to humanize people to other people. We can do this but it all starts with listening to our fellow human beings and believing them.
I cannot agree more, I'd give a thousand likes if I could. We need to TALK, and that's what schools are supposed to be for. Educate, encourage communication, understanding, through class discussions. Education is the biggest issue that needs to be addressed in the US. If we could just talk, civilly, about what it's like to be ourselves, whatever we may be, then we would really cut down on hate and crimes in this country.
I also believe if the government would regulate schools (their funds, budgets, teachers, curriculum) then the inequality between different schools would greatly decrease, so we wouldn't have to worry about sending our kids to a "good school."
I just really believe that everyone deserves a good education.
Me too. I think they should make all college and school books free so that everyone has as much chance as they want to go to school. That would probably make for a more diverse student population too.
"It benefits everyone for us to all grow up with people from a diverse background."
rhetoric with absolutely no basis in facts.
Do you have any facts that prove otherwise? Further, do you have any facts that show there is any harm in people from different backgrounds talking to one another? If you want other people to provide facts, maybe you should provide some of your own to back up your opinion.
Amy sure thing love.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2013.02433.x/abstract
if an academic paper is not enough chanceloor merkel herself admits to how europe is sucha a cesspool the way it is today-
www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/12/14/angela-merkel-multiculturalism-is-a-sham/?.5cd0fa3cd129
But please go on about your utopian dreams cause of which we all have to suffer.
Tired of this same white shaming BS. If people want to live with their own kind let them. Hello? Pursuit of Happiness? The races ARE different. It is called reality.
fastacker2 well ot should be called unity, you know the United States of America ring a bell?
fastacker2 Holy crap you're too ignorant for your own good. Their own kind? Damn. And sure if you want to just hang out with white people go ahead. But when systematically white are put in one school and minorities in another and then more money and resources are given to the school with white people, that's just fucking wrong.
Jon Colonel the only part that is wrong is white schools getting more funding. kids should be going to their local schools with their local community, regardless of the racial makeup of that community.
Shaun Dreclin I agree with you to a degree. Kids should be going to their local school but as John Oliver mentioned in the beginning, their are other systems outside of the school system that work to segregate whites and minorities. White and minorities are not naturally segregated. They are intentionally segregated by the systems in place.
+Jon Colonel but those systems are all long gone by now, I'd assume? Yes there are remnants of them i.e neighborhoods that were white only back in the day still are majority white, but there is nothing stopping black people from moving in now.
Lol my Kenyan self laughing at that pencil joke 😂😂😂
It's not _racism_, it's more like tribalism. Most people are naturally drawn toward people who are like them, and that includes race and even interests such as certain music genres or video games. I absolutely despise rap, and I don't relate to much of African American culture in general (especially of the urban/ghetto brand); therefore, I am less likely to have a large number of black friends. While we focus on the supposed racism of white people, there are a lot of black communities that don't care to have white people in them. A lot of East Asian people stick together. My girlfriend is Vietnamese, and where she's from, the northern and southern people generally don't mingle. But here in America, they work together and help each other out as one community (at least in Charlotte, NC). That's not racism; it's tribalism. And I am so tired of people getting hated on by acting the way that they were naturally made to be because it doesn't fit in with the made-up rules of society.
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"it's still racism, but let me call it a different, obscure name so it seems less offensive... tribalism! yeah, that's what it is. okay now let me generalize the fuck out of black people implying they all passionately enjoy rap music and are not at all individuals."
Just admit you're racist. Jesus Christ...
M. Strain Jr. So right!!
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I think the reason for little funding to these schools is because those making these decisions don't want to throw taxpayer money at kids who don't want to learn. The culture there is so different, that it feels like trying to help is a waste.
It's like trying to help the homeless by handing them money and food. While there are some homeless people trying to get out of their situations, most of them have gained this mindset that they are trapped where they are, so they simply accept their situation and will never get out of it no matter how much you want to help.
It's hard to want to help a bunch of kids who are being raised to believe that the whole world is against them (especially white people) and they will never amount to anything.
Again, I'm speaking in general terms, and my words are more out of pity than judgment. Sure, there are plenty of African Americans who are intelligent and do indeed have a love of learning and bettering themselves. But I think the idea is that in certain urban communities, those are far fewer than you'd find in more upscale white communities.
*****"We're better now than when we were made and we should act it instead of looking for excuses."
This is true. However, many of our laws and forced social norms are based on the idea that we are better than we actually are. That's why an estimated 1/3 of all Americans have some kind of criminal record and the U.S. has the highest ratio of inmates to general population than any other country in the world (including North Korea).
Sunday night last minute homework then my ritual wait for john oliver video to post and ignore my homework for 15-20 minutes.
Carlos Rodriguez same lol
vick3d what do you mean?
+vick3d I thought you said you were a member of the "Green Party" despite race-bait trolling on Secular Talk videos? It seems you're just a bitter, resentful, white teabilly. Doesn't sound too "Green Party" to me.
Carlos Rodriguez you could get hbo and spend 30 mins ignoring your homework
why not just make all funding for schools equal? it's not that fucking complicated.
Yeah. It does sound easy.
The problem is, wealthy districts don't want equal. And they have more political voice.
Kev it's. It easy dumbass. It's based off of how good the fucking students do. You're not going to have equal schools when one school is full of yards and the other one is full of
Smart people.
just. fucking. try it. you might even make through your proposal of the bill before it gets steam rolled out of existence. For fucks sake I live in a county that sprung up 3 or so years ago because the majority of the tax payers here didn't want their money going towards the poors and blacks instead of their kids. and it's not like they even spent that money to better the already good schools here, it all ended with like a half a percent tax decrease.
hornylink i'm well aware of the futility, just highlighting the fact that people want it fixed, but won't do what's necessary to do so, i.e. hypocrites
Schools are funded by head count per day and by performance on your states standardizes testing metric. With this taken into account if a school is part of a lower income neighborhood then statistically the scores are lower also you will see an increase of missed days thus resulting in lower funding for that school. By shuffling kids around you increase income of the school and, as said above, increase exposure to people who are different. It takes all kinds.
As for making it equal across the board then you simply cannot you will have schools that are highly populous and thus under-funded and the schools which are lower in population will be over-funded resulting in more of the same if not exacerbated results.
Lol I’m watching in 2019 after recently graduating high school thinking, “that’s odd, there was plenty of diversity in my school (Florida)” and the he got to the park where it was largely New Yorkers
In my town we have two high schools within relatively close distance to one another. One, the one I go to, has a pretty bad reputation. My high school is considered ghetto and people from outside the school assume it’s crime ridden. It has this rumor because it’s closer to the hood. We have more P.O.C. at my school, a majority in fact. However, we actually have great teachers, great college prep and career prep classes, and amazing resources. (And great students, hello! )
Last year the county was considering rezoning. Some of the kids from the posh school would’ve had to go to my school. Their parents raised hell at the school district because they didn’t want their kids coming to our “dangerous school” and they feared they’d get subpar education. Neither of those fears were valid and it was extremely offensive to the students and staff of my school. This is in Florida by the way.