Most of human history is the history of elites, of kings, queens, princes, prelates, magistrates, potentates, knights, earls, and squires, all of whom subordinated and exploited everyday people.
It makes it seem that exploitation of people are normal and occurs almost with history and seems to be something that minorities or less favorited race occurs too. The author is basically using precedented knowledge to make their point that this has occurred for awhile and its time to change it.
Their beauty is attacked: wrong hips, lips, noses, skin texture, skin pigmentation, and hair texture. Black intelligence is always guilty before proven innocent in the court of the life of the mind: The Bell Curve2 is just a manifestation of the cycle.
This also involves how western media portrays beauty standards and even influences beauty standards around the world. Not recently we have been having a lot more color added to media in advertisements and magazines but even so there is this beauty standard of lighter bodies and a frown upon on brown bodies.
Du Bois asserted that race in this country is the fetishization of a problem, black bodies in white space. He understood what it meant to be cast as part of a problem people rather than people with problems.
I really love this view point and never saw it like this. I didn't really think that their is fetishization and also how that people categorize and stereotype certain issues with certain races and that comment brings out how we need to change this viewpoint.
Just because you're running your own schools and governing your own schools doesn't necessarily mean that you get to keep all of your money.
I like this solution of private schools dispersing these shared taxes but some may disagree with this matter.
Property taxes and locally raised taxes make up about half of all education funding.
This brings up my point on how gentrification influences segregation and how it impacts the resources each school is given because of where they live.
"The other half are enrolled in predominantly white or predominantly nonwhite school districts,"
This reminds me of my high school in 9th grade and then moving to another high school that was predomintley white and how they were quiet opposites and how different it was.
This created a system of fractured communities — and a fractured system of education funding — that means even today, only about half of America's 50 million public school students attend integrated schools, Sibilia says.
I find this to very important in my paper to show how fractured communities impact the education system and the funding that goes with it. The statistic that only half of 50 million students are in integrated schools shows that we are failing at even integration throughtout.
Her team found that predominantly white school districts get collectively $23 billion more per year than predominantly nonwhite school districts.
Segregation in schools doesnt have to mean literally in numbers but the funding of certain schools and unequality of funding. This brings up my point on location and where certain schools are that impacts a students high school and resources high schools and other schools get there money.
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The decision is often framed as a landmark decision that transformed education for Black students, allowing them equal access to integrated classrooms.
Although the supreme court ruled in favor of Brown, this doesnt mean there are other ways that people go around this to make sure schools are somewhat segregated.
all men are created equal.
This quote is also an important quote Im include in my essay as it shapes our laws specfically surrounding injustice.
This practice heightens racial consciousness while discouraging students from thinking of themselves as part of one nation that encompasses members of all races.
I disagree with this statement is as our races and ethnicities make us America, without our varying cultures and backgrounds there would be no melting pot of a called of America but I understand where he is coming from as not viewing ourselves as being separate from each others races.
Sadly, there is evidence that segregation is a growing trend, especially on college campuses. A report released last year by the National Association of Scholars compiled hundreds of instances where college campuses have established or allowed programs or activities that are segregated on the basis of race, color, or national origin.
Maybe this is due to colleges asking you about your race, I have always wondered why colleges wanted to know what race you were and why that was important.
Brown v. Board of Education.
This supreme court case is one major one I should use to and refer back to in my essay to explain the importance on how segregation between races shouldnt be allowed and what made this happen.
neologism
This means a new word or expression
University of Michigan-Dearborn hosted two virtual “cafes,” or online discussion groups, that were segregated on the basis of race, with moderators also segregated on the basis of race. The cafes were advertised as opportunities for students “to gather and discuss their experience” on campus and in the world as members of a particular racial group.
I find this interesting as if this was publicly explained about how these groups are meant to be separated to show similarities in experiences but shouldn't the purpose of this be so others can hear other peoples experiences instead?
Because biases appear to be so hardwired and inalterable, most of the attention paid to countering them hasn’t dealt with the problematic thoughts, judgments, or predictions themselves.
This quote caught my eye because he talks about how people are so caught in their own views and biases that they believe they are 100 percent correct or since this belief has been with them for the longest the cant change how they think or believe.
hen people hear the word bias, many if not most will think of either racial prejudice or news organizations that slant their coverage to favor one political position over another.
I completely agree with this where this isn't 100 % true because bias can mean varying things and how we use these certain biases to analyze or help us with our critical thinking.
Rather, I am trying to rid myself of some measure of my present bias, which is the tendency people have, when considering a trade-off between two future moments, to more heavily weight the one closer to the present. A great many academic studies have shown this bias—also known as hyperbolic discounting—to be robust and persistent.
I believe we are all trying to recognize our own bias whether it is what we favor more or just what we are used too, I believe recognizing and trying to get rid of your bias is very important as you grow older and as you advance your degree, being non bias allows you to grow with your peers.
Democracies must advertise democracy.
I love this as it explains how a true democracy should be shared. Without advertising your democracy it allows those who are not educated to not be aware of ways they can be involved in their government. Simply not inviting those of your country.
A core function of democratic, electoral and parliamentary life is struggling to find ways to adapt its governance to the new realities of confinement and social distancing. Trusted nonpartisan processes must be reinvented and re-socialized, an especially daunting task in polarized democracies such as the United States.
Due to sudden changes in 2020, the author explains how covid-19 has impacted how elections were ran by all over the world and how in order to preserve the integrity of the elections many things would have to be adapted and invented to ensure this preservation.
Five particularly salient ones are: protecting the safety and integrity of elections, finding the right place for expertise, coping with resurgent populism and nationalism, countering homegrown and foreign disinformation, and defending the democratic model.
The author places the thesis at the end to explain what the five subtopics you will be reading to help organize the authors thoughts in a more concise way.