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redqueen

(115,103 posts) Fri Apr 18, 2014, 12:46 PM Apr 2014

Six Words: 'Segregation Should Not Determine Our Future'

The investigative journalism group ProPublica, with reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, has just completed a yearlong project, Segregation Now, exploring the re-segregation of schools in the U.S., with a particular look at Tuscaloosa, Ala.

In partnership with ProPublica, The Race Card Project went to Tuscaloosa to collect resident's six-word stories about changes in the racial makeup of their city.

NPR Special Correspondent Michele Norris, curator of The Race Card Project, joined Morning Edition host David Greene to share what she and NPR producer Walter Ray Watson learned in Tuscaloosa.

Sixty years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling that desegregated American schools, Brown v. Board of Education, a yearlong ProPublica investigation found that many schools across the country are back where they were under Jim Crow segregation: racially isolated and under-resourced.

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http://www.npr.org/2014/04/18/304194508/six-words-segregation-should-not-determine-our-future

I heard Nikole Hannah-Jones discussing this yesterday morning on NPR and she does a fantastic job of outlining not just the situation as it exists today, but how it came to be. It didn't get this way by happenstance.

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Six Words: 'Segregation Should Not Determine Our Future' (Original Post) redqueen Apr 2014 OP

"It didn't get this way by happenstance" Tansy_Gold Apr 2014 #1

It's shocking how much we've regressed since the 80's. redqueen Apr 2014 #2

I was watching some 70s tv recently... cyberswede Apr 2014 #5

One self-kick redqueen Apr 2014 #3

I'll give it a k and r. Faux pas Apr 2014 #4

K&R. Jim Crow is like "Jason" from the "Friday the 13th" movies! bullwinkle428 Apr 2014 #6

Tansy_Gold

(17,860 posts)

1. "It didn't get this way by happenstance"

Reply to redqueen (Original post)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 01:04 PM

Apr 2014

No shit.

K&R.

redqueen

(115,103 posts)

2. It's shocking how much we've regressed since the 80's.

Reply to Tansy_Gold (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 01:17 PM

Apr 2014

And tragic that people romanticize the man who ushered this country back onto this path.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)

5. I was watching some 70s tv recently...

Reply to redqueen (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 03:56 PM

Apr 2014

and I was struck by how advanced the attitudes seemed regarding issues like equality, labor unions, censorship, abortion, etc. compared to now. *sigh*

The Partridge Family - "My Son, the Feminist" - December 11, 1970
Keith promises his feminist girlfriend that the Partridge Family will perform at an upcoming rally, which puts them under attack from the morality watchdog group in their neighborhood.

Maude - "Maude's Dilemma: Part 2" - November 21, 1972
Carol suggests that Maude should abort the baby, and that abortion is now legal in the state of New York. Maude can't gauge how Walter truly feels as he is publicly indifferent to the idea. After soul-searching and taking advice from Carol, Walter, Arthur and Vivian, Maude decides to terminate the pregnancy.

WKRP in Cincinnati - "Clean Up Radio Everywhere" - April 12, 1981
Evangelist Dr. Bob Halyers (Richard Paul), a take-off on Jerry Falwell, threatens WKRP with a boycott unless they stop playing songs with "obscene" lyrics.

Even the kids' show The Electric Company had sketches with interracial couples in them - not to make pa point, but just because it was normal.