Re: Kozol's op-ed piece

[QCao009@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/13/2007 8:07:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
Csubstance@aol.com writes:

The  impact of segregation is pervasive. Every child who grows up without  
meaningful interaction on a routine basis is being perverted by the  effects 
of 
segregation, and the impacts might be worse for white children  than for 
black 
ones. (Reasons? Most black families prepare their children  to deal with the 
race 
issues, while most white families ignore them,  perhaps a function of 
privilege 
and superior social position). 

The  middle class hasn't waited for Brown to be implemented in massively  
segregated places like Chicago. We've had to carve out our own locations  to 
face 
the realities of massive segregation (Chicago has more than 300  all-black 
public 
schools, as I've repeated and reported over and over) and  the need for the 
education of our own children.

Sadly, most  American (white) children will remain as perplexed about racial 
issues  because they will not encounter the realities in any real form. And 
the  
realities won't be discussed.

Thank you, George, for sharing your perspective and bringing together the  
macro and the micro.  Danny certainly was brought up as a child of the  Global 
Village and afforded that unique experience which most other children do  not.  
The sad conclusion you have arrived at is even more alarming for boys  than 
they are for girls, and in this shrinking small world, it is no longer  
possible to "compete" effectively without learning to first cooperate.  The  question 
is not one of "re"-building as much as one of structurally keeping up  with 
archetypal issues and confronting the same ones which are now manifested in  a 
different symptom.  Segregation and desegregation have morphed into a new  
reality, and as you point out, those realities are not being discussed because  
our "leaders" are busy tearing up the structure in place.

 
Quan





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