Jonathan Kozol's Essay Still Separate, Still Unequal

In To Kill A Mockingbird Mr.Ewell shows prejudice against a black man named Tom Robinson. Prejudice is frequent in the story and it is used on a innocent man. A poor white girl accuses a black man of raping her, which leads to a trial. The residents of Maycomb think black people don’t matter because of their racial superiority complex which comes from slavery. HARPER LEE Harper Lee wrote this because of prejudice back then when she was little.

For example, when Bob Ewell sees his daughter trying to harass Tom Robinson, an African-American man, he calls the police. When questioned about what he saw, Bob Ewell replies saying, “I seen that black boy yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella” (Lee 231). Bob knows it was his daughter that attempted to “rut” on Tom Robinson, yet he

Cause-and-Effect Analysis In his essay “The ‘Black Table’ Is Still There,” Lawrence Otis Graham revisits his junior high school several years after his departure and is appalled at the enduring existence of the all-black lunch table, which is comprised of only African-American students. His essay examines the causes of his personal shift regarding the issue and the causes as to why the black table remains. As he is growing up, Graham belongs to the single black family in an all-white neighborhood. He is the solitary black child at his school that participates in predominantly white activities and institutions.

I feel that he wish he had another history to tell his son; to embrace some kind of hope in his son's future; to tell him that being black does not put his life in risk from being taken away. Coates knows that when his son soon or later will eventually start wondering about why he is being treated unfairly or different. He will begin to see the police brutality among his racial group; how many blacks of different ages get killed by the police just because they

In the Novel “A Lesson Before Dying” by Ernest J. Gaines shows the discrimination between the African Americans, the Whites, and the Mulattos are based on a social hierarchy. This is shown in different chapters among the Novel and will be explained in detail. Firstly, at the beginning of the novel “A Lesson Before Dying” we automatically read in the first couple of chapters that the Black ethnicity is at the bottom of the social hierarchy. One of the main scenes that comes to mind during the book is when Miss Emma, Tante Lou, and Grant go to see Mr. Henri Pichot.

But, Staples opts to inform all members of society about the pain, and anger caused by the stereotypes that they place on others. On the other hand, Dickerson is addressing the Black males, continuing to live up to the existing stereotypes and she makes it apparent in “Who Shot Johnny?” Dickerson’s anger, fueled by the Johnny getting shot and the traumatic experiences she suffered through during her younger years, push Dickerson over the edge. As Black males or the ones “Who Shot Johnny?” were responsible for her pain, she declares that “he got my 17-year-old sister pregnant … without ever informing her that he was married” (p. 272), “he snatched my widowed mother 's purse” (p. 272); “he made my neighborhood a ghetto” (p. 273). In the light of this, it is no wonder she concludes that these people are “assholes” (p. 273) and verbally flips them the bird.1

People of the town including children refer to black people as “Niggers”, and raised to think of black people as lower class individuals. “To Kill A Mockingbird” has a strong message towards racism, this is learned from Scout & Jem as they mature throughout the novel and are constantly being exposed to demeaning segregation in Maycomb County. In giving Scout a lesson about racism, Atticus also does the same for the readers of the novel. This happens when Scout asks Atticus what the term ‘Nigger-lover” meant, after being insulted several of times and not knowing if it is an offensive word or not, but had a slight feeling it was when Atticus was being called at. A quote from the novel: "nigger-lover is

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch defends a black man named Tom Robinson who was accused of raping a young white woman. Atticus was maybe not wise to defend Tom because of the consequences that tax his family, but it was the right thing to do. The consequences of defending a black man did cause good things in the children like early maturity, but it also did cause things like traumatization. As Atticus has explained to Scout many times about this, He is doing this because he values equality and justice. He believes that everyone is equal and therefore just because Tom Robinson is black, doesn't mean that he should not defend him.

Everyone has been teased at some point in their lives. When this happens, we can be tempted to act differently than how you usually do. This happens in Dreams from Father by Barack Obama, Sixth Grade by Sandra Wallace, and My Mother’s Food by Nora Keller. In Dreams From Father, the narrator, Barack Obama, is an African-American who goes to a new school, but it very different compared to his classmates due to his ethnicity, which causes challenges for him, like being teased. From Sixth Grade, the narrator, Sandra is an African-American student who is also different compared to her classmates because of her race and how she acts, which also causes her to be teased.

The word nigger was first created by the Spanish and Portuguese meaning black. It was mainly used in the mid-twenties to victimize all black people by the whites to show that blacks were their slaves and they were inferior. Because of this, the black people still gets called “niggers” as a term to discriminate them. Even though the word nigger is offensive language, texts that contain this word should still be thought to high school students. Some reasons why suggest this is because high school students are also called young adults, which means that they are more mature than younger kids and those who know what the word nigger means will not go out and call the dark skinned people by that term.

In the article “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Education Apartheid” author Jonathan Kozol argues that segregation is still a major issue in our education system. Kozol talks about schools where minorities make up the major student body. He states that schools with namesakes tied to the civil rights movement are some of the most isolated schools for minorities where white students make up less than a third of the student body. Kozol proceeds to talk about these schools where minorities make up the student population, he says that these are some of the poorest schools they are old and in need of repairs and new technology and supplies. He says that the education of these students has been deemed less important and that they are not

He returned a few years after he left the school and still sees the “Black Table”. To him this is a serious problem, and I completely agree with him. One of the reasons that this is a serious problem because it will make colored students inferior to others. Some blacks have a white student as their friends, and this table shows that blacks are still under others and the whites are above all. Almost like a caste system for races.

As a piece of the unequal education area this is a perfect representation of blacks channeled thought the pipeline and not being able to gain their freedom and liberty from their wrongdoings. People send their children to school to learn and to improve themselves and also their communities. However, the desks that these students sit in are now counted by the state prison to determine what percentage will make up their inmates. There are various factories centriole to inequities in the black education field, for instance unequal punishment, more stagnation with the juvenile justice system, and other circumstances create the ideal circumstance that leaves blacks without the same educational opportunities as whites. In the US News

Two parts that stood out to me was the story of effects of Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination on black children and the effects society has on people who are transgender. Andrea Jenkins referred to a story of how the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. had on the education of black children. After the assassination, she and other black students were sent home on that day and were not allowed back. This fits well with Lorber’s examination of Multiethnic / Multiracial Feminism. A source of inequality for MEMRF are the patterns of privilege.

Schooling for the students Schooling systems have been the same since anyone could remember. What might need to change for students to get the equal amount of education as the “gifted” students? Will students still benefit from the lack of renewal in the education system? According to the authors from chapter 4 "How We Learn" Alfie Kohn, John Taylor Gatto, Bell Hooks, and Kristina Rizga, explaining in their essays published in "Acting Out Culture" by James S. Miller.