{"id":55062,"date":"2014-05-19T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55062"},"modified":"2014-05-19T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:15:48","slug":"nation-magazine-essay-shows-america-has-tired-of-school-desegregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55062","title":{"rendered":"Nation Magazine Essay Shows America Has Tired Of School Desegregation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nation is a left-wing magazine and yet it has produced an even-handed look<\/a> at the new racial segregation in schools, eliciting comments like this:<\/p>\n

I attended Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley, CA in the early \u201970s. I\u2019m white, and the school was 50% black. My mother, being a good liberal of the times, enrolled me in a special program that was 90% black. My experiences showed me the following:<\/p>\n

1. Blacks are incredibly hard on other blacks, vicious in some cases. And I\u2019m specifically referring to black adults treatment of black children. Being a kind, meek, intelligent black child in a black neighborhood must be a terrifying experience if you don\u2019t have anyone to watch over you. I\u2019d wager many are destroyed psychologically by the experience.<\/p>\n

2. As a white person in a black community, you have basically two positions available to you on the social fabric: non-entity or target. If you keep your mouth shut and keep a low profile, you\u2019ll be lucky and just be a non-entity. Imagine that. That was my *best* option socially. But at least my mother got to feel like a good liberal. . .<\/p>\n

As an adult, I don\u2019t wish blacks bad things, but I sure don\u2019t want to live in their neighborhoods either, which is a feeling I bet I have in common with a lot of black people too. 25 years was enough, and, as an adult, the best moment of my life was to move into a neighborhood where I didn\u2019t have to worry about my car being stolen or vandalized or people randomly hassling me on the street because I was white. Enough is enough. Call me a racist if it gives you a morally superior boost, but I know you haven\u2019t walked the walk. It\u2019s all theory to most of you clowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nation is a left-wing magazine and yet it has produced an even-handed look at the new racial segregation in schools, eliciting comments like this: I attended Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley, CA in the early \u201970s. I\u2019m white, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55063,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55062\/revisions\/55063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}