#white students

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Activists spurred by affirmative action ruling challenge legacy admissions at Harvard

A civil rights legal group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of col

Y’all, I’m fucking SCREAMING. They said ‘keep that same energy!’ 🤣

[tubbsmccracken]

If You Really Want to Make a Difference in Black Lives, Change How You Teach White Kids

The latest episodes of police murdering Black people have my chest burning like a building set ablaze. My heart is hot, my stomach churns. My

[athousandgateaux]

The future leaders of this country (in principle, anyway) do not impress me as being the intellectual equals of the most despised among us. I am not being vindictive when I say that, nor am I being sentimental or chauvinistic; and indeed the reason that this would be so is a very simple one. It is only very lately that white students, in the main, have had any reason to question the structure into which they were born; it is the very lateness of the hour, and their bewildered resentment – their sense of having been betrayed – which is responsible for their romantic excesses; and a young, white revolutionary remains, in general, far more romantic than a black one. For it is a very different matter, and results in a very different intelligence, to grow up under the necessity of questioning everything – everything, from the question of one’s identity to the literal, brutal question of how to save one’s life in order to begin to live it. White children, in the main, and whether they are rich or poor, grow up with a grasp of reality so feeble that they can very accurately be described as deluded – about themselves and the world they live in. White people have managed to get through entire lifetimes in this euphoric state, but black people have not been so lucky: a black man who sees the world the way John Wayne, for example, sees it would not be an eccentric patriot, but a raving maniac. The reason for this, at bottom, is that the doctrine of white supremacy, which still controls most white people, is itself a stupendous delusion: but to be born black in America is an immediate, a mortal challenge. People who cling to their delusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water. A people still held in bondage must believe that Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make ye free.

James Baldwin, No Name in the Street, pg. 128-129

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Outrage At Ole Miss Over White Students Posing With Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Sign

Outrage At Ole Miss Over White Students Posing With Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Sign

“It makes it harder to say it’s not bad,” one recent black graduate said. “To say ‘I’m safe here, Mom, don’t worry.’”

Courtesy ProPublica and the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Ole Miss students Ben LeClere, John Lowe and Howell Logan pose with guns by a bullet-riddled plaque marking the place where Emmett Till’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River. The photo…

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[sbrown82]

“Your family’s last name and the size of your bank account are not a measure of merit, and should have no bearing on the college admissions process.”

– Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights

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Where Are the White Students?

A Chronicle of Higher Education analysis shows their numbers are dropping faster than any other group’s

"Where the white women and men at?"

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Today, busing gets mixed reviews. Busing did integrate schools. Funding for schools was more equalized across racial lines. A larger percentage of Black students were given the same educational opportunities as white students. Some students, both Black and white, later testified to the value and growth they’d received from a more diverse environment. But busing was often traumatic for students who were pulled from their neighborhoods and sent across town to go to school with strangers who were at times openly hostile to their presence. Busing was in many cases more damaging to Black students than white ones, as Black children faced violence from white peers and parents for simply trying to get a better education.

Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

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In the United States, Black students in the K-12 education system has been "behind" their white counterparts, more like an achievement gap. In 2014, 87% of white students graduated, meanwhile only 73% of Black students graduated. (Information given by the U.S Department of Education)