The education system in America has long suffered from racial inequality. According to the Adequacy and Fairness of State School Finance System Study schools in predominately Black neighborhoods are reportedly more likely to be underfunded – resulting in fewer resources, larger class sizes and the hiring of less experienced teachers.
Black students are also victims of discriminatory disciplinary practices – being more likely than their White peers to be suspended or expelled for the same behaviors, contributing to the ‘school-to-prison pipeline’ according to a report by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) – that’s is, the tendency of minors from underprivileged backgrounds to end up, disproportionately, incarcerated because of harsh school and municipal policies.
In this clip, pan-Africanist historian John Henrik Clarke (1915 – 1998) claims the US public school system is anti-Black by design: the oppressors fear they might lose their grip on power if too many Black students flourish.
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