cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4870654
1964-1970 should say progress. Then 1970-2024 should say police wage war against being black in a city.
Real question from someone outside US. Why does the “segregation” is not “apartheid”?
Seeing this as a black person in America invokes an irrational amount of anger within me.
Jesus Christ, what tone deaf motherfucker thought this shit up?
2020-Present: The president is a segregationist, but that doesn’t matter because Trump exists.
Researchers at Stanford University and the University of Southern California found that racial segregation in the country’s 100 biggest school districts, which serve the most students of color, has increased by 64 percent since 1988. Economic segregation, or the division between students who receive free or reduced lunch and those who do not, increased by 50 percent since 1991.
Wow that sure is some nice progress you got there
School busing for the purposes of desegregating school districts was something that developed in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement; and white people fucking hated it. They rioted all over but especially in places like Boston. In other parts of the country private evangelical schools (not explicitly segregated but de facto, as these were and still are often nearly 100% white) exploded in popularity.
The courts were able to keep these desegregation programs in place through the 70s and 80s, but the white folks were relentless in trying to get them overturned and by the time you get into the 90s, they had been pretty successful in rolling back this one meager form of progress.
It’s from Vox https://www.vox.com/24156492/school-segregation-increasing-brown-board-of-educat
The actual study was released by the Universities as an interactive map https://edopportunity.org/segregation/explorer/
