How Black High School Students Are Hurt by Modern-Day Segregation | NowThis
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Students at Block High School in Jonesville, Louisiana, are still facing segregation and inequality every day at school, more than 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.
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More than 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education ended school segregation at American high schools and public schools, African American students are still suffering in a modern-day version of segregation. There is no doubt that education in America is not equal for all, especially when you compare education in America vs other countries. Take a look at public schools in America and you'll see there is still school segregation today. Despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, racism and inequality are everywhere in the U.S. We went to Catahoula Parish and Jonesville, Louisiana, to visit Block High School which is feeling the effects of modern segregation. School facilities are dilapidated and full of mold. Teachers are forced to teach subjects they know nothing about. With a predominantly Black student body, it is economically and racially segregated. Just 13 miles away is Harrisonburg High School in Harrisonburg Louisiana which is the polar opposite. It's mostly white and has 'beautiful facilities.'
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Such a shame because that girl at the end of the video seems very intelligent and has really good critical thinking and long term planning abilities.
Yup. It sucks when kids who are above average get stuck in below average places.
William Todd Ik
I know! As a current college senior, I feel like colleges need more students like her to bring in diversity and promote leadership. Someone give her a scholarship for college prep classes.
@@Fumi007 They are not stuck. They can get out.
David Lafleche She is stuck she’s a kid
That superintendent doesn’t care. I can see it in her eyes.🤦🏾♀️
Angee Nix yes so said girl.
Yeah she was getting ready to retire and didn't give a s**t.
David Anderson another racist right here
David Anderson no it’s you people who destroy it, tell a baby he’s X and he’ll grow up as X. Race has nothing to do with behavioral issues like this, it’s made from the culture that the black community has been given not inherited. The moment we can truly see each tribe as the same can we not profile each other and look at everyone as individuals not a group. In history everyone is always opposed to people they perceive as different but can we tell the difference between these tribes now one wears a hat one doesn’t so because this fact we can alienate the other people as not like us
I even suspect she's probably "pocketing" some of that money for "herself" and "her family". I hope that also gets looked into as well. The people of that district deserve way better and the fact she is suposedly already retired by now is even more cause to look into how much she was payed on her way out.
Public school in America is just sucky in general. This is why American's education is just going down the drain.
Raja hey I’m pretty smart
@@just-living1511 but not everyone is and thats mostly the systems fault
rc car true, but you can also blame the students for not taking advantage of the free education that is given even though the educational system is bad
Francesca Bailey What is there to take advantage of if the education system is bad? “Take advantage of expired milk. Other person: but it’s expired and bad for my health. Other person: but it’s free.” Is basically what your saying.
Lyrical Lemons preach
I heard this from somewhere - "The United States of America is a 3rd World country with a Gucci belt."
Yep.
mhm
As someone from a 2nd world country from eastern europe, yes, that's pretty much how we see it...
The world is third world
@@bleuebrade3655
All the best strippers come from Eastern Europe. Play your cards right you might even become FLOTUS
I live in Louisiana and this is 100% real.
Same.
I’ve heard about it
Time to move or home school.
@Victor theres no other explanation other than blatant racism and that's as a social worker who works heavily with the public school system and has multiple degrees in sociology social work and legal studies. Theres multiple direct connections between race, lack of funding in predominantly black schools, over criminalization of black people for lying about their address to get their children into better school zones, and theres the fun fact new prison sizes are built off the classroom sizes of predominantly black 1st grade classroom sizes. The excuse is black communities dont pay as much taxes and the school zones are funded based on that however can we EVER expect minority communities to pay more taxes and make enough money to do so if they arent given true equal education? Especially sense EVERY educator knows theres a direct correlation between a lack of education and poverty which leads to criminal activity.
@@insomthegreat not everyone can afford to do either that's the entire issue.
Yet we're going to spend $8billion on a wall
Oh so the no child left behind worked out great didn't it?
Even worse, we’re giving Paris money to rebuild a church.
@@ana-je5py what else is new? We have been in debt since Andrew Jackson.
The United States of America puts it's priorities into the wrong places. Immigration is very very important but not over the education of our youth.
Dra O yeah, now that’s freedom right there, really a true embodiment of the American dream. Look at what you’re saying, no one can take you seriously.
people swear systemic racism doesn’t exist but it begins with our children and how we educate them or lack thereof.
Teach your children that they can strive to be anything and the color of their skin is not an obstacle.
Like MLK said its not about the color of your skin but the content of your character.
It’s not racist, I’m half white and went to a broke school, with predominantly white people, it’s the environment not the people
There is no systemic racism.
You wouldn’t be able to use the internet if you were black and there was systemic racism
@@chips1215
So basically things aren’t systemically racist?
Or everything else is systemically racist except the internet?
I don’t think you understand what the term systemic means.
@@chips1215
In a systemic racist system the oppressed party would be limited by the system. The system we live in is anyone with money can use the system. If you have no money expect some systemic racism. Poor people no matter their color have more in common than they do with any wealthy person.
One school is getting 20,000 but the other is getting 7,000 how tf is this being allowed
it's not always so cut and dry as they make it out to be.
Sudhir Kakar do not assume that just because a population of black people are not responsible, the entire black population is not responsible. You seem to have no idea how degrading and racist you are being by grouping one culture together and basically calling them a bunch of uneducated poor sluts. The reason it is like this is because of the ongoing rigging and racism in America, try not to be so ignorant next time you try to come up with something smart to say.
This thread is disgustingly racist and the participants don’t have the self-awareness to realize that their positions are discriminatory and that its people like them Who perpetuate educational and social inequality.
@Sudhir Kakar very well said!!!!.
White privilege in action!
I used to live in Louisiana and it’s not just these districts but most of the schools in Louisiana are just straight up wrecks
Alex this I bigger than Louisiana. Look at every eastside and southside schools in every major city.
ricecristi You’re absolutely right.
Damn
Parents has to participate and go to the PTA meetings. This is how determine if money is needed...I heard.
That explains a lot.
Heartbreaking. We can put money towards wars and bailing out banks.. but we cant fix schools and the water in Flint..
Thats local and state government's duties
@@SS-gh2ix oh, okay, Flint is forgiven , and gee I'm sure that helps all the people that have been poison from lead for the pass few years and as I'm just as sure that 77 million dollars went towards actual repair and damages. My bad.
@@ericanthony402 it's a moral duty, and I'm sure that local and state governments are so good at that.
@@SS-gh2ix and after 5 years of begging, dying and kids filled with Lead poisoning, years of using bottled water to drink, bath and do laundry dry they get a forgiven 77 million, why don't we just run the streets and celebrate! Meanwhile....
@@evanhuff8254 so everyone there should suffer because they made a mistake. What about America first what about helping your fellow man.?
I didn’t realize other schools were like this. I realize how lucky I am to have access to the public school system where I live.
Tori Hoover 🤦♀️
Emily Thomas why the face palm
XVI I just.. white people. Is all I can say that’s it
Emily Thomas all i’m gonna say is the school I go to and the area I live in is not a predominately white area. About 80% of the population here is hispanic or black. That’s south florida for you. It just happens to be a nice area but it has nothing to do with white people.
Tori Hoover I live in a predominantly black school area too and mine is one of the top three schools in the state I am also very lucky I will never complain about my school again😭
Systematic racism. I’ve BEEN saying it.
SHADOW BANNED literally not even black but go off.
@Sudhir Kakar well this is where conservatives show their stupidity
@@shadowbanned2170 where conservatives show their stupidity
Sudhir Kakar the saying “local population” stops having the same affect once you realize that these two schools are one street away from each other (also known as the same damn community)
SHADOW BANNED get out of this chat
“it’s been going on far too long and you a little too late” - that’s a word there.
Actually its 13 words
pin this
@Sherloid by Sherloid your name is sherloid 🏌️♂️
@hate waitin You Musty 💯
Integration was a bad idea for blacks. What needs to happen is we need to file lawsuits to get more funding. If we can get more funding we can boost schools in black communities and create black scholars
Man if I had the money I would definitely fix up that high school. Everyone deserves an education.
Maaan Ellen just donated 50,000 to my kids school (which the district has ignored for decades) and deep in my heart i would rather these kids have😢 this is heartbreaking
If I were as rich as Bill gates, I would be giving so much money to the worst public schools to help them out.
jjray the gates foundation already exists, he donates more than you’ll ever make in your life, but obviously every celebrity won’t open their wallets because they likley already do donate but they need to keep their lifestyle aswell
@@ajhare2 The school system would need to change too even I believe what you're saying is a wonderful idea but the whole system needs to change.
@@ajhare2 Zuckerberg did give millions to one school district that was just as bad and the money just disappeared. The money didnt go to where it needed. Unions and administrations absorbed the tens of millions.
It shows how bad the system is when a student thinks they're more prepared to fight wars then go to college.
Welcome to the hood
The Army generally accepts all recruits initially. College does not.
i go to this school lemme tell you somethin, THIS SCHOOL IS MAKING ME PHYSICALLY SICK
layna lacy I’m so sorry. This is not right.
I appreciate it boo'@@ybur6760
That’s not fair to you
You guys need to keep protesting cause it will never change unless we starts to make a difference
Obviously they don't teach english
It might make you sick again.
And there she gave the exact answer they wanted: I'll probably just join the army.
I know - the irony!
Exactly. Americans think the majority of minority military men and women are there because their patriotic, when it's mostly just a way to get out of these types of situations
The poor are just pawns.
first last - so when is your fat lazy ass joining ?
Yep. That's what I was thinking the whole time.
Shameful! Those poor children. That young lady wantedto learn and was denied the chance. All the while, she was attending school! Talk about irony! Bless them all.
Then why isn't her father doing anything about it?
@@davidlafleche1142 are you kidding me? Why should her father do anything in the first place, it is the responsibility of the state to provide education. Why? BECAUSE IT IS FOR THE INTEREST OF THE STATE. Sure, online learning is there and you can get education if you look for it hard enough, but the point is that they should not, people in poor or devastated countries might, but not someone who is born in the richest country on earth. See where I'm going?
@@CogitoErgoSumFortis No, Jesus says it is the responsibility of the father to provide for his children. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6, KJV). The state keeps taking more and more money for "education," but actually gives it to lazy bureaucrats, not schools or teachers.
@@davidlafleche1142 no one cares about your Bible verses. It's not the father's fault why these children have such horrible education.
@@davidlafleche1142 it's the states fault for not giving enough funding to these schools.
My jaw actually dropped when he said, "moral character" :O
The culture certainly would be much different, but that's no excuse for not consolidating the schools and giving them equal funding. It's ridiculous.
@@turtletail313 Culture?? which culture? the American culture, blacks and whites literally have the SAME American culture.
Duke Temz agree but, what even is “American” culture?
@@theduke6174 I just spent 15 minutes making the perfect rebuttal to your comment but I accidentally deleted it so believe whatever you want to believe I guess
Some of these people shouldn't be teachers if they're calling students animals.
Shame on Betsy Devos, the superintendent and anyone who has not paid any attention to these students
Yea a great start to fixing this issue is starting at the top, she’s no good for Americans
Yeah blame the republican when it's the democrats who are running the state. They voted for them, now they suffer.
schools in new york city are the same way for minorities. this is a national issue that needs to be addressed.
What schools? if you don’t mind me asking bc they seem way better than that
alex barter no they are not
I graduated from Jamaica highschool. We had lead issues, roaches and no facilities or uniforms for our sports teams. My soccer jersey had electrical tape for the number 6 I used to rock lmfao. Systematic oppression in our education system is real and yes even in queens
I go to school in queens and the schools are not this filthy and disorderly.
Nyc is the richest city in the states theres no way this can happen.
I’m joining the military to become an officer after college because I want to, people shouldn’t have to pick the military so they can make a living...
I mean trade schools are great options and are cheap and you will never run out of work and lots if employers will pay to have you trained so there is one option besides the military
some people have no other choice
Jonni true that needs to change
Clorox Bleach yes but sometimes it’s the only case
And cuz “they want to”
It’s not making a living, people. Come out and are broke asf
Then you got people saying "everyone has the same opportunity"
When some have to work harder than others
ruclips.net/video/dAUCZH-r3KQ/видео.html harder and with far more respect for the ones who would.
The main girl in the light blue hoodie is smarter than what she realizes
@S. O. this is infuriating to the highest level.
My cousin is a junior and hasn’t learned one thing at her high school. She FaceTimes me in class and the teachers aren’t teaching and everyone does what they want.
Jake Luxford I had students making collages in math class 🤦🏾♀️, some were juniors and still hadn’t taken algebra 1 😡.
ricecristi oof
Jake Luxford Seems cool. Nvm
Hi! Nice to meet you. Now please leave not at all. They don’t even have access to the same things their white counterparts do. But nobody cares about poor people. They act like somehow it is deserved. I do what I can, to mentor and tutor and get a lot of these kids in college, but The systemic problems are too deep and too big for the few people who have limited resources, yet give everything to help.
ricecristi 👌
No taxation without representation. If you’re paying taxes-you should have what you need in a public school.
No because the school sistem gives you money for how many people you have if you have 150 people your not going to get as mutch money woth 1000 kids in a achool
bob.Evans. Not exactly
bob.Evans. All schools should be equal or as equal as possible.
Since when do blacks on welfare pay taxes
All the time. Who's to say most of these kids have parents on welfare anyways?
again I ask “when was America great” ?
No schools in “the greatest country on earth” should look like this.
I really hate the school lunches, stupid Michelle Obama making rules on the school lunches. Trying to make schools food healthy even though it's not healthy
Edward Landa okay bot. Lol
@@Mr.Insomniac it's not Michelle's fault, its the school district's fault. They choose the cheap way out and give you horrible food rather than good healthy food. Where did this misconception of it's "Michelle's fault" come from?
@Ana Maria that is because of a parenting problem and how the schools have trouble keeping them focused. When will America learn that putting kids on a chair and making them listen to lectures or read chapter books not work?
Schools focus on the cheap way to teach students and give standardized tests that does not help the student whatsoever but only cause stress and make them feel like dropping out is easier than completing school.
How would I know this? Because I've been paying attention to the careless students in my school.
@Ana Maria girl no. Stop
Very true. As a black woman who went to school at a white school and a black school, the difference is stark. The white schools are prestige, everything new. The black schools didn’t have a/c or heat in the winter, textbooks were scarce, windows broken, mold you name it. I didn’t even learn Geometry because my teacher wasn’t certified to even teach it! As much as I loved it, I was the smartest in all my classes because they were severely behind the white school I had come from. Something has to be done
That's because Black schools are run by Democrats and refuse school choice! The conundrum is, why do Black people continue to vote Democrat, when the Democrats haven't done a damn thing for Black people since the War on Poverty begun in the 60's? Democrats have been promising they were going to fix the problem in the inner cities and yet nothing, but thank you for your vote!
The school appearance speaks volumes, the condition says what you think of them.
@Peridot Sapphire Deny education is the first wall.
What THEY think of YOU! that's the fxcking problem
She's going in the Army and still won't get respect for serving her country and also as a means to get a leg up......
Shayy Baaebaae what do you mean for a country who has never and will never care about her? After serving in the military you get benefits search them up, that’s why we have a military budget.
Tk Hannibal she will be getting free food education if she serves long enough. And what do you mean she won’t get the respect for serving her country?
Shayy Baaebaae it will never be for African American people? And you say that’s facts right? It was never meant for only African Americans it as meant for all races. That area the state just gives that amount of money for that education. It’s the state that doesn’t give enough money, not the United States as a whole.
Jay sun when America became America black people were still inslaved even tho we use the quote all men are created equal we had to have a war to end slavery and even then black people were treated differently than white people and after all this time there is still police curtly Todd’s black folk, white people who still judge us etc. there will be no true equality in America for blacks,gays, or trans and that’s the sad truth
@Shayy Baaebaae you know not all military jobs are infantry right
Woooow!!! That's messed up!!!☹
As for the young black lady. Even tho she said she hasn't had a good education. She seems pretty smart to me. Good for her.
*I can't believe that School segregation is still going on!*
*THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! The school segregation NEEDS TO END NOW!*
@Sudhir Kakar *You're a racist human for saying that!*
Sudhir Kakar it’s funny that you’re saying this about a minority in a majority community, since your name tells me that you are most certainly a minority. It’s also a bit tough to be a “good successful parent” when you are born in a generation where people like you refuse to believe the world that, believe it or not, tends to repeat its own history.
Sudhir Kakar Do you know how many white people will say the exact same thing about you? “Segregation works” huh? I guess segregation would also keep you in the war torn country you came from. I mean, it could work...
Well its the south
@Germania Kuoni that's great! Because I choose not to have ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOU!! or your future racist children. So piss off, fraulein.
This is outrageous. I'm so tired of the injustice in this country.
That school onlly has 150 people in it sp there budget is alot less then the pther schools sp there going to get bairley any money its not racist its just that little schools arent going to get as mutch money two spends
bob.Evans. it’s still not fair to see these kids get a horrible education.
cara j. Having awareness is good so that the state can actually put money into their education but using federal tax abundantly for a states education system is not fair either. I find that federal tax should be used for the people as a whole.
SHADOW BANNED typical white guy, praised so much for no reason that their head explodes because of the size of their ego 🙄
And don’t fucking call us blackies
this is America
Patrick Henry we rather fight to change it rather than leave. Go back to Europe if you don’t like it
One state of the Union, anyway.
We'll agree to go back to Europe, if none of you are allowed to leave Africa and have your technology and culture reverted back to how it was in the 17th century.
@@shawnfredericks5563 that's absolutely untrue lol. The VAST majority of imperial wealth came from trade for luxury items, like silk, pigments, spices, drugs, tea and cacao... none of which are from Africa.
Europeans bought their slaves, some Africans got rich.
Moreover, the entire bottom half of Africa was in the Stone Age when we found it. Countries like Liberia were NEVER colonized, and remain among the poorest still. Africa is still stuck in a malthusian trap, and it's only by the grace of white men that its population cap has been allowed to increase.
@@shawnfredericks5563 How do you think that came to be? White people brought it back from the new world. SMH
Makes my school look like heaven
This is sickening and extremely disappointing.
Yeah...Keep giving CORPORATE welfare to big corporations...Keep giving them tax breaks with hollow promises that they'll bring jobs and revenue into these poor areas. And this is what you'll keep getting.
@Josh D Right?
Or keep giving welfare to people that cant handle money and thos is what you'll get.
@@isai4779 Yes. Because fixing our infrastructure, and ending systematic corruption isn't also an option, right?
@@TheChickenRiceBowl give me an example of systematic corruption
@@isai4779 He didn't give you an example I wonder why? wink wink
I hate this. Honestly makes me sick🤮
Sudhir Kakar The parenting responsibility? Don’t even try to bring that up, the girl with the two braids seems to have a perfect capability of achieving in school. Do you know what the problem is? The racism that is still happening in some parts of the states. Get your head out of your ass and also out of the 1800s 🙄
Yes it does
It’s infects their skills and intelligence
@Sudhir Kakar Lack of parenting responsibility? Wow I didn't know parents were responsible for the school's conditions.
No Darling! Don't fight for a country that doesn't fight for you!
I'm sorry you're going through this
You understand that going in the army will give her a job and education to use in the future? If she doesn’t she won’t be able to be successful.
@@Jbolo123 you understand as a BW she stands to face even more unseen prejudices that she has NEVER dealt with and can't even fathom. If she thought Louisiana was racist and sexist, the military is even more so. And she's stuck for at least 4 years. Notwithstanding the mental and physical toll it will take on her body. I pray she doesn't go but finds another path to get out....signed an ex BW marine
You libtard pigs disgust me.
THIS AND FLINT DOESNT HAVE CLEAN WATER
YEY APPERENTLY WHAT WE NEED MOST IS A WALL
All schools are equal but some are more equal than others.
- Napoleon, Animal Farm
Lindsey yessss
ArkhamDeluxe I love your ROBLOX game man
They should be more then ashamed! They should be fired and not allowed a government or education job for their racism 😡
They aren’t government employees, what are you speaking of?
deadass, they're not goverment employees
Umm… ok… you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about.
Josh_Gnu it’s not racism u bimbo
*RacIsM*
It's so unfair, sad, terrifying and stunned.
This is systematic racism that Trump claims doesn't exist.
It's school funding based on tax revenue.
Greg Dubya based on tax revenue of the surrounding area by the school, which was probably redlined.
@@sunnyou5832 why we need school choice. The very same school choice that some say is racist.
@@sunnyou5832 ikr I don't understand the idea of equal money like I live in a majority Chinese area my taxes should fund the majority Chinese school not some other school
The superintendent gave her answer by skipping out. Terrible. My heart goes out to the families and their children. It's just plain wrong!
They do not want African American students to get good a education, in fear that it will elevate more black scholars. I wish I had the money to help. It is going to be up to the communities to step in, why can't companies like Lowes and home depots donate yo help renovate these schools, companies get together and help, because the local government does not care about these schools or students.
Meanwhile in europe everyone has free school and "free" college
@@ap17l93 it is really said how power and money takes away from the need of people in the US, I am sure these kids parents that work oay taxes just like everyone else yet, their state officials have passed them over. The world is so divided, black/white, poor/rich.
@@kymtv9137 One thing life teached me it was, no matter what background/colour/gender you are, you can be great in life you just need to prove yourself and not be the victem ( sorry for bad english)
Not true
@@kymtv9137 not true stop making excuses
Think this is bad? Just wait until public schools go private.
Is that actually happening?
What are you talking about? A private company cares about their investment, not like the government who can always outbid competition. @Ed W You are brainwashed by big government.
@@almanac520 but private schools cost a lot of money. Money that theses poor people of Louisiana dont have.
@@almanac520 if Schools are private how are the kids their assets? They will never work for the school so it would be cheaper to collect money and then cut corners on Education. They have no obligation to teach them at that point.
Private sector Schools wouldnt be like a company that would invest in the workers bc students are not working for the school. It's not the same.
@@jaridkeen123 no you're wrong. Competition provides better results.
The similarities between here and my school is disturbing and it's even more disturbing that I find it to be normal..
Unpopular opinion:
it’s about economic classes not skin color.
True, but there is a thin line to that, yes, it is about economic classes, but when you have a majority of african americans in poverty....it's when you start to ask yourself if race has SOMETHING to do
They try to make everything about race
Nathan Haskell well hunny it is about race because black people are more likely to be in poverty....
Yeah right, the system was built this way and yes it’s not about skin color, it’s because african Americans are the children of Israel. Systematic racism is very real
Rural lousiana and not about race? 🙄
That lady dissed every question they asked about why the school wasn’t being cared for
Just like someone else we know, not mentioning any names.
She simply don’t care
Our ancestors didn’t wait for people to fix things for them, they *MADE* it happen. You have to take what you want in this world by force because people will not help you or hand you anything especially if you’re black or brown. Racism never died and the social constructs that followed never died. These communities were left like this intentionally knowing that blacks couldn’t afford to move and couldn’t afford the upkeep. You have to invest in your communities though. Even if you spend every last cent, you have to. Even if you have to do it yourself you have to because these kids are the future. Give them some form of motivation. Begging for change never made it happen. 🤷🏽♀️
We integrated and Brainwashed now our ancestors were segregated thats why we were united our problem we think we free but we not we work in the land of our captors just cause the chains aint on our necks n feet we think life is great we free nope we not but its time too be United Babylon we in last days our ancestors are crying in they grave of stupidity we do daily and they suffered died brutal deaths not for this B.S. of today
Amen
well said!
If it's a poor area it will likely stay like that. The ones who make something of themselves will move out and the ones who are struggling will move in. The motivation for most is to get out of those areas since they're more likely to be riddled with crime and gangs.
Take things how exactly? Where do children take an education? Where do the parents of children take an education for their children when they're impoverished and disenfranchised and greatly punished even when they do simple things like lie about where their child lives for example so they can go to a better school. Its EASY af to say "take what you want" and not have any real plans as to how entire communities can do this.
You do realize that this is due to living in a low end community and your school funding is based on tax money that’s why
It's not just blacks its people of lower income in general
Is there anything we can help if we live in a different state?
colleen colleen donate your money to their education. It’s really nice of you to do such a thing :). Personally, I like it that there are those who give money on their own will rather than being taxed heavily unwillingly without recieving any physical benefits for it.
colleen colleen no, change is hard to do and people don’t really give a shit no matter how hard you try to change people views on things
But like.....racism and segregation....that was like.....forever ago.
That TOTALLY doesn't happen today...
- a rich bereuacrat (probably)
Oh, come on!!! The Civil Rights Act of 1964 happened in........like the 60s. That was like, 200 years ago and everyone KNOWS that all racism and bigotry and racially based systemic issues went away the next day.
Jeremiah Dalton between the rich and poor it does and zoning for school can still be racist
Koko Chanel do you expect them to put a higher funded school in a poor neighborhood? People do what makes sense.
Not sure anyone claims racism here. ( yeah I am ). Are you not aware that all whites schools are not the same? Not sure why people are using the physical condition of the schools as an excuse. If you switched the physical schools that these kids went to do you actually think the output would change?
Fff why are liberals so slow? It is culture and iq
@@jerrypeters2095 you madlad
i go to a public school and it’s exactly the same, mold, ceiling tiles always falling, flooding in the bathroom almost every day, expired food, teachers teaching 5 subjects and 6 grades that they aren’t qualified for, etc etc.
This breaks my heart. These children are our future and they haven’t been given a fair shot when it comes to their education. I would bet my bottom dollar that some of them have the most brilliant brains but haven’t been given the essential tools to develop them. It’s sad that even still we’re going through this. Smh.
They have a gofundme/block-school-building-and-books-fund if you want to help.
We as a people need to do better for our own. We need to start by having black teachers, builders, financial advisors etc so we do not have to depend on white people for the things we need. We are POWERFUL people and need to take care of our own. We did it back in the day and need to do it now. What some need to understand is if we did segregate ourselves we would flourish to our potential.
Or maybe not many black people engage in finance or jobs in education as much as white people so it would be more difficult to find them especially in a white majority country?
@Felicia
Finally, many blacks are waking up to who we REALLY are before being taken into slavery, the true Judahites/Israelites of the Bible. MLK didn't know this but the entire biblical narrative consists of Israel (you know them currently as "black" people) being taken into slavery (scattered among the "nations"), held captive under oppression and hatred, killed with impunity by their oppressors, and then freed in an ongoing cycle as they continue to rebel against their father who is in the heavens (outer space and/or beyond as we would call it). It's all prophecy. It's always been God vs. Satan, Israel vs. the nations, The church (which is actually Israel under different terminology) vs. the "world" (actually the "nations" under different terminology), the children of God/children of light (the Israelites) vs. the children of the Devil/children of darkness (the people of the world), the sheep vs. the goats, the wheat vs. the tares, and on and on. In fact, the rest of the nations are actually judged by the Lord BASED ON how they treated HIS people, his brothers and sisters (your so called blacks).
The current White World Order is scheduled to be the last people under Satan's power, to hold them in the lands where they've been scattered through slavery (Trans-Atlantic slave trade). White people's cup of captivity/slavery, oppression, injustice, murdering with impunity (getting away with it), and hatred is almost full, then they will receive their recompense and punishment as will all nations that had their hands in it, according to the measure they participated.
Ultimately, compared to the "black" men and women that will be arising in the future, especially the messiah himself, you're gonna wish you were still dealing with MLK, hahahahahaha. The comments that the young black girl in the video referenced her friends who went to the other predominantly white school heard are indicative of the sentiments and dispositions of whites here in the U.S., and pretty much worldwide, as a collective group. That's why in order for there to be peace, godliness, goodness, fruitfulness, etc. on the earth, white people as a collective MUST be rendered powerless and their White World Order destroyed once and for all. Obviously many actual white people would be destroyed in that process, but as it is written, "the cities (plural) of the nations (plural) FELL" and "the slain of the Lord will be many".
YT Responses your a troll right lol. “White people Must be powerless” I’m white and I’ve done nothing to hold black people back ever, keep blaming I on your race for why you won’t succeed
@Natural Gaming I’m black and the people in this comment section are actually idiotic. Suggesting that segregation is still prevalent when it’s ILLEGAL
Kyle E this statement is really not true. I don’t think a single black person has woken up and said “maybe segregation was better.” During that time, most high schools for black kids probably looked exactly like Block High School. They didn’t have equal opportunities in education, and that’s the same thing happening with schools like this. The only reason these people are talking about building our own black schools with better education, is because the government and the system obviously isn’t going to help us.
You can tell they want to learn and want to teach. They are just having resources denied to them because of systemic racism. Point blank period.
and people argue that "its because the neighborhoods don't work hard enough". Like wtf African-Americans have been breaking their backs for this godforsaken country and y'all are complaining about them not working hard enough? WTF. They've been denied basic rights for centuries
@Angel S which means that we have massive disparities in our education system. This means that the national government needs to step up.
Sometimes i feel like American people are so ignorant i feel ashamed of what they do/say to black, asian, and Mexican people like that really hurts me. It actually changed my perspective over white people they can have anything they want they can do things they want. I know there's american people who don't do anything that i just said. I just feel like most of us don't feel equal around each other. Each day i keep wondering if this will ever end. Sometimes I just wonder if I should even live. Anyone who sees this message please don't take my message as a
Offensive thing it's just my opinion.
I get your point... I think about this all the time and it makes me sad, but I just changed how I look on people through looking more on what’s really is inside and neglecting whatever their skin color or appearance may be... I don’t know if this thing, so-called inequality will ever change, but I do hope for everyone's betterment.
I understand completely.
Make her
MN what
Blacks, Asians, and Latinos are also Americans. Maybe you should just express your view to its full extent by saying "White Americans". However, I would like to argue that Black, Asian, and Latino racially discriminate just as much as white Americans do.
Why are people blaming Trump for this. This is a state issue, not a federal one.
Do you know who the secretary of education is?
@@greenhornet8262 are you cerified to manage hundreds of thousands of schools and divy out the money? NO
State test scores dictate funding. Survival of the fittest.
Garrett Howard your just giving more justification to marginalize black and brown kids. Test scores don’t determine funding, where you live determines it. That excuse doesn’t make sense even that were true. Oh, a school underperforming I test scores, less give then even less resources to help them out. I’m sure less money will solve that. Gtfoh
@@greenhornet8262 thats how state fundi g worls dude. Try going to a city hall meeting bud. Its been like this for decades. Why would u spend more resources on schools with higher dropout rates?
To get those kids back on path? Sure we like to think thats how things should be but it isnt. Survival of thevfittedt bud. Not survival of the weak
Garrett Howard survival of the fittest? That philosophy doesn’t work in schools. How it goes now, minorities don’t even get a chance to be part of the fight to survive. I can tell these situations these kids deal with dont effect you. So I understand why you respond with such an ignorant statement. White privilege at its best
This is the result of capitalism. Profits > social justice
Trust me... things would be 100 times worse with communism or socialism
@@duckster9320 Care to explain why?
Veronica Rodriguez communism has killed millions and millions of people and it’s always resulted in starvation and dictatorships
@@duckster9320 Care to provide sources?
Veronica Rodriguez it‘s common sense and also North Korea, China, USSR, East Germany, Venezuela
I'm born and raised in Senegal, I can definitely say I grew up in much better conditions than these poor souls.
Land of the free my @$!
Sudhir Kakar Do refugees automatically get rich when they come to America? Because if not I’d recommend you’d hold off on having kids, since freedom leads to failure.
When attending public high school in Harrisburg, Pa in the 90’s they didn’t even have books for us as students. Teachers were from outside the city and did not care.
Sad that only 22 grand to fix a school.
I feel sorry for the kids who go there
22 grand for three schools.
20 grand for the rich school.
@@samanthapeters8314 so if you spread that one school that gets 20 g money around to the other schools, now you have 4 schools that will be too broke to do anything. So do you have one good school and 3 poors schools and hope that the one good school can attract federal money are just have 4 poor schools.
Only seven grand was given to the black school that 22 Grand is for the whole community schools in total
Schools in Nevada are just as bad that’s why we’re 50th 🤦♀️
Dolly Showboaty very true
Children shouldn’t have to beg for change in their schools from adults
I hope y’all follow up on this with another piece
The pentagon just approved $800 billion for defense budget for 2019
Have a nice day!
its a state issue not a federal states can apply for extra grants a special ways but as a citizen of LA most of our school are like this
There is a high school in my county and its basically segregated. Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, etc sit apart at lunch. Idk much info about this high school.
A study done said that’s just natural instinct
Wow..That’s so sad! 😭❤️ I Hope everything comes out okay, and that their stuff gets repaired!
That just made me grateful because I'm always complaining about how my teacher is getting me in trouble but now I'm like ur complaining about how u getting in trouble but at least having education I never thought of it like that
Fatima Rodriguez I’m going to try to stop complaining about school after seeing this! Good luck to you as well
Why is a run down high school in a run down neighborhood surprising? Idk about you guys but demographics are crucial here.
Salvador Amaya so is the political party that runs that district...
White flight is the same where I live in Conecuh County Alabama
the two schools are in the same school district but receive wildly different funding
take a wild guess which one gets the lion's share of the money.
@@toddpa-c3826 political parties dont inherently run the districs just by existing, schooling is seperate from politics
Its ALL about the money, the budget. If your in a low income town best believe your education will be low as well.
Not always true. I lived in a poor area at some point, but the school was revamped/renovated with several extra learning programs (Saturday school so kids falling behind could catch up) new computers, classes, books, multiple libraries, etc. It's because the community & district, albeit poor, knows it's worth investing in schools.
empresstina876 the town was low income, but how come one school was obviously prioritized over the other? Hmm...
Lottery revenue for schools is a sham as well. It allows state governments to cut taxes to the bone and place more of the school funding burden on the lottery.
Thank you, it's not always about race. Poor people have poor services.
Local property taxes pay for the local schools. If the property taxes are low, the schools are not funded.
This is nothing new in the south. I grew up in Mississippi only a few miles north of Louisiana. All the schools in Southern part of county were decrepit. We had the same issue were teachers were uncertified and buildings were unsafe, the elementary had to be shut down because of this however it was turned into the alternative school aka where you had to go for ISS. Majority of students were black, Im white myself. I think there was maybe 10 to 15 white students altogether. The northern part of the county however was a slightly different story but that was due to a much higher income of family lived there. They had their own problems though since they had to travel to our school for vo tech. It was a little weird though looking in school books and seeing when school was segregated. Some of the stuedents became teachers that now work with each other. The problem was not racism but state unwilling allocated funds for education. Our teachers were frustrated by this. It was ridiculous thinking students had to travel 30+ by bus mins just to go to a class. The problems not segregation and racism but the southern leaders unwilling to allocate funds for education.
I went to a school 50 miles north of NYC and we had similar conditions. The teachers we had in our middle schools were teaching English and science or math and history. We didn’t even have sports because they cut the programs
that meeting was so small the parents dont even care.
Patents are(highly likely than not) trap in a demanding labor force earning at best medium to low wages with long hours because so.
@@diasporael7563 most of then only have a mom that doesn't work with no dad around. there are statistics available so we don't have to guess.
Their parents went to the store to get some milk they’ll be there soon
@@frankyflowers Oh Absolutely, my statement could at best be interpreted as an outlier scenario or idealized what if. The data will also show mom working 3 jobs and the father being 'institutionalized'.
@@frankyflowers even if they did have a father, still at work
My kids goes to school where the majority is black. My youngest was made fun of and bullied over his color but I was told it wasn't appropriate for us to file a claim since we were white. He's in the same school board but different school and doing well now. His friends are mixed and they gain so much from the coeducation. I wish no child gets to experience discrimination based on skin color or financial background.
I was a student in one of these poor rural schools from Elementary through 9th grade. We had teachers that taught multiple subjects, we had very little funding, repairs or replacement of old worn items required advocates to plead with the county for funding. We were not a segregated school. Everyone went to the same school. We were taught to love and respect each other. We had some of the best teachers, coaches, and staff any student or parent could ask for. I'm very thankful that I grew up in one of these poor schools because we were taught a lot with very little.
THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THOUGH!!
ik, and they say the wealth gap aint an issue
Not the richest , The STUPIDEST country in the world.
Loool
Were poor, we have no money. we have a debit we can never pay back. How exactly are we rich?
For many in these type of communities the military is their only escape college is really not a choice and it sucks they never stood a chance.
I am becoming a teacher if I ever had to work in the school like this man I’d fix it myself and buy textbooks for my students in the classroom this is such a shame for no one fixing these problems
This genuinely made me tear up.
Its changed from seperate but equal to seperately funded but equal.
YES
@Sudhir Kakar so you have to be rich to have kids? Only the rich upper class that can afford private school should have kids, these dirty peasants who pay taxes shouldn't expect their public schools to adequately teach their children.
@Sudhir Kakar sorry that the backwards policies that it looks like you support like free trade, low minimum wage, the expensive cost of going to the doctor and the cost of going to college to try and improve your life in the first place has left them with basically no money to contribute, nice try. So you're going to call poor people moochers for wanting proper education but youre just going to ignore the biggest moochers in this country which undoubtly is the big corporations that lobby our politicians for special treatment and corporate welfare, our oil companies and military industrial complex that lobby our politicians to go into unnecessary wars so that they can make their profit off the deaths of our young soldiers and the deaths of civilians, those are the moochers, not people who want education. Live without the labor they produce for a month and very quickly you wouldnt see our economy looking as pretty.
This is a cultural difference. Check these students homes. I guarantee the students homes look similar to their school.
I went to school in a bad part of Memphis. This gave me flashbacks.
Every teacher I had taught an average of three classes, I didn't have a history teacher for an entire year, there was asbestos in our main building so we had to take our classes in trailers outside, the majority of our teachers came from a program from out of state.... I could continue. People don't understand just how much an improper education can trickle down in your life.
What school you went to ?
When we look at problems on a micro scale, we are ignoring many factors that contribute to the whole. Yes, a parents socioeconomic situation can impact the children they have, thus resulting in a child being at a predisposition of socioeconomic struggles themselves. But only seeing the poor, struggling-to-make-ends-meet parent and considering the fault to be solely theirs is illogical. Your statement of parents being at fault for a child's lack of a proper education is similar to the rhetoric used towards the homeless who 'should just get a job'. You're essentially blaming the life of a poor child(something they have no control over) on a parents lack of wealth (which, again is something that isn't easily changed).
You seemed to have missed the meaning behind my previous comment. I was born in Memphis, a city that is known for its stark contrast in people living below the poverty line and those who are living with ease. I was neither impoverished nor was I rich, but I received the same sorry excuse for education as all of my classmates did because of many factors:
Memphis city schools are allotted very little money for upkeep and teacher salaries in portions of the city that are predominantly minority populations. Another aspect of this is the crime in the city which has always been ranked as one of the highest in comparison to cities across the U.S. As for your statement on parents not being able to afford their children but still having them anyways-many poor cities aren't given proper sexual education courses in schools (I never recieved one or had the option to take one). Thus, why there is such higher teen-pregnancy rates in lower income areas. I could go on and on.
You may have not intentionally made this comment directed at me and my circumstances, but you show a clear lack of understanding for the bigger problem of wealth and educational disparities across the U.S. Modern day segregation still impacts the lives of many in the south and across the U.S. In America, there is an immense educational disparity between rich kids being more likely to be enrolled in private schools that are able to better prepare them for a better college, and schools like mine that weren't even able to grant me a standard education-according to overall educational standards.
Research stratification and race, socioeconomic factors, as well as educational ones. This may open your eyes to just how complex inequality is in the U.S. and how it is influenced and driven. Consider the bigger picture rather than fixating on what appears more evident.
@Sudhir Kakar
That’s why my parents worked their a$$ off for me to have a better public school system soon as we immigrated here
This is weird 'cuz my nation is a developing 2nd world country and our schools are mostly doing OK building-wise. It' s weird because you always hear about the powerful and great west and then you see this. That building is unacceptable I wish all the luck and determination to the students and their parents. The pay for schools is unjust everywhere and I always wondered why that is.
@Sudhir Kakar I guess it really depends where you go to school... but still I think there are some problems in the system when your teachers have to work two jobs to get by, again depends which school :/
@Sudhir Kakar we know you have strong feelings against black people, but argue more with logic than feelings ok, I know it's very hard for conservatives to argue with facts because they argue with feelings about things they hate
Yeah you see what the US wants you to see. Most of us are poor.
Well I have a background in Accounting so this report raised some issues but didn't answer all the questions. #1 what is the student population at each school? #2 Why do the parents and students at Block High school expect the other parents to support them when they don't want to pay for additional funding for their school? #3 Why are children being asked to do their parents job? #4 Do they understand that if they accept support from another area there will be strings attached? The money will not be free money parents in the other school will expect a say in how Block is run if they are supporting it with no clear benefit. The report tried to make this sound like it could be a racial issue but it sounds like an economic issue. In the end if they get the money from somewhere else it won't be a "Free Lunch".
Interesting perspective. However, it does seem coincidental.
When you have oppressed a single group of people for hundreds of years without reparation you end up with a group of people who have been systematically economically disadvantaged. ADOS are expected to perform at the same level with individuals who have acquired hundreds of years of generational wealth gtfoh. Proverty=Racism
This is America in 2019
I'm not at all surprised that someone with an accounting background can't grasp the socioeconomic context in which the numbers they stare at exist. Typical.
I feel you did not carefully read my statement. I was looking at it solely from an economic perspective. If I assume that each student is given an equal amount by the state. Then you could argue the system is unfair and that the state should give extra money to the Block system. But I saw no evidence in the report that the Block students were paying for the other students. From a tax perspective the argument would be the other way around. It would be argued that it benefits the other areas of the state to give a disproportionate amount of money to the block schools relative to their tax base in the long run.. I am not speaking about morals. I am speaking about realities of this system we live in.
You need enough money to make the system function. I am not arguing about fairness. For one school system it is unfair that they have poorer facilities and for the other it is unfair that they should be asked to support them.
Sometimes I don’t realize how lucky I am until I see videos like this.
its not racial segregation but wealth segregation if you can call it that
We used to have dead birds in our AC units.
Why do we need to pay money to get to a good school? Singapore and Dennark doesn't use money to determine what school you go to.
Democrats are against the schol vouchers though
@@alexejnovak8693 Democrats, are you out of your mind dumbass?Republicans are the ones stopping progress because of "socialism" like stfu
Yikes, my school has pretty good conditions but I’m allergic to something in the building. If I tried setting foot in that school, I’d end up in the ER.
Thank you NowThis. Tell me where to donate.
I’m currently in school to become a teacher and this just breaks my heart. I don’t know what to do or how to feel about this.
Watch American RUclips videos on why teachers are leaving their jobs.
@@samanthapeters8314 yeah ive been watching some, i know that teachers do not earn too much money and im ok with that. im in it to do what i can and help students. but this inequality is really going to kill me once i get to experience it in real life. i just know its going to be my biggest struggle.
I live in Louisiana and this is very true🤦♀️🤦♀️
Thats not segregation thats just low school budget
This is absolutely ridiculous!! No school should be in that condition in this country in 2019!!! Period!
its a small fucking town. supply and demand.