Black people 'are expected to be America’s moral conscience—and we are unceremoniously punished for it,' writes Dr. Bettina L. Love.
o understand why Black children only get the scraps of school choice, we need to interrogate what the phrase “school choice”has meant in the years between theruling in 1954 and today. Initially, before Brown, Black families sought more choice in their children’s education. More precisely, they wanted access to schools that were better resourced than those established for Black children.
The sacrifice of leaving local public schools was made most evident in the lives of civil rights activists Ruby Bridges and Linda Brown.was just six years old in 1960 when she walked to school in New Orleans escorted by four U.S. marshals. On her first day, Ruby was accosted by two white women, one who threatened to poison her, the other who held a display of a Black baby doll in a coffin. For her safety, Ruby was not permitted to eat food prepared at school.
Aja’s mother searched for a better school for her daughter, one that would nurture her love of learning. Private school was too expensive, so Aja’s mother filled out an application for her nine-year-old daughter to attend Urban-Suburban, the “first and oldest voluntary desegregation program in the United States.
Listening to Aja describe her experience hit me hard. I had applied to that same program for high school, but I had been rejected. I thought Aja was lucky—until I spoke to her. When Aja and I met as teenagers, we instantly became best friends. We both noticed right away that I needed Aja’s help. We were in the same grade and the same age, but I was years behind her educationally. She was well read, and I had never finished a book. She began to tutor me. I needed her guidance in every subject.
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