The socioeconomic divide exists to this day. In the American Life Podcast, the school Michael Brown went to at Normandy, one of the poorest cities in Missouri, has a large population of lower-income Black people. In January of 2013, Normandy lost its accreditation from the state due to its lack of graduating students and school organization. Therefore, Missouri made a transfer law that gave the students permission to transfer to a nearby accredited school for free but Normandy only provided one transportation to the school, which was in a “white” neighborhood. In the American Life Podcast, Nikole Hannah Jones, an investigative reporter states: “Normandy officials chose a district called Francis Howell. Francis Howell was 85% white. It 's across
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Institutional racism is a system of inequality based on race. It mostly takes place in schools, courts, governmental organizations, etc. and links to socioeconomic racism. As in the case of Normandy, people in the government have a way of keeping schools segregated according to race, environment and income. Because Black people are prevented from getting a better education and growing up in less harmful environments at a small age, they continue to be trapped in societies with many social problems as adults. In turn, they have trouble providing these things for their children and the race as a whole more difficulty in raising their social status, education levels, and …show more content…
While the methods may be less obvious, socioeconomic separation and institutional racism still exist and a new form of lie, the myth of being “color-blind” when it comes to race, has come into play to avoid solving the issues at hand. Color blindness is the new “separate but equal”. While it may seem like an ideal solution to the problem, it is merely a thin cover-up that fails to consider the complexities. While most people would like to live in a world where race does not matter, we do not yet live in such a world, not while issues like socioeconomic and systematic racism are still working together to bring down one race while raising another. It is the time that as a society, we put on some color correcting glasses and get to work to make some significant changes to our governments and schools and raise a generation that can truly claim that color blindness is actually
Institutional racism is a system of inequality based on race. It mostly takes place in schools, courts, governmental organizations, etc. and links to socioeconomic racism. As in the case of Normandy, people in the government have a way of keeping schools segregated according to race, environment and income. Because Black people are prevented from getting a better education and growing up in less harmful environments at a small age, they continue to be trapped in societies with many social problems as adults. In turn, they have trouble providing these things for their children and the race as a whole more difficulty in raising their social status, education levels, and …show more content…
While the methods may be less obvious, socioeconomic separation and institutional racism still exist and a new form of lie, the myth of being “color-blind” when it comes to race, has come into play to avoid solving the issues at hand. Color blindness is the new “separate but equal”. While it may seem like an ideal solution to the problem, it is merely a thin cover-up that fails to consider the complexities. While most people would like to live in a world where race does not matter, we do not yet live in such a world, not while issues like socioeconomic and systematic racism are still working together to bring down one race while raising another. It is the time that as a society, we put on some color correcting glasses and get to work to make some significant changes to our governments and schools and raise a generation that can truly claim that color blindness is actually