"One More River to Cross"-
Recognizing the Real Injury in Brown:
A Prerequisite to Shaping New Remedies; from The Institution of Education.Recognizing the Real Injury in Brown:
Charles Lawrence
Lawrence argues that Brown vs Board of Education was a failure because the courts didn't realize that African Americans were scared of being segregated in schools. The only reason why segregation was started was to make African Americans inferior and have no power at all. The court system had no idea of what they were doing when this was brought to them.
1) "Black children will remain 'less qualified' until we gain representative influence in both the institutions of preparation and the institutions for which they are being prepared."
This is a great quote because there is absolutely no reason to have black children be called "less qualified." People need to change the way we think about black people and their children. They are just as qualified as white people are. Teachers need to teach them just how they will to other children in their class, it shouldn't matter the color of their skin.
2) "The first is that segregation's only purpose is to label or define blacks as inferior and thus exclude them from full and equal participation in society."
This is saying that segregation is the purpose of blacks not being able to have the equal opportunity they should have in society. Blacks are being labeled as inferior people that are unable to do anything that they want to do. They are scared to go out in society to get a job and to live life freely.
3) "Once it is understood that the injury results from the existence of the label of inferiority, it becomes clear that the cure must involve the removal of that label. The mere placement of black and white children in the same school does not remove the brand imprinted by years of segregation."
I thought this quote was very powerful because it says a lot, it is saying that African Americans are scared to be in schools with white because they have been taught that they are inferior to everyone else. There is no way they can get that out of their mind from all the years of segregation, its been drilled into their heads that they will live and be like this forever.
Conclusion:
I believe that there is no way to change the way African American's think of them selves in schools after being segregated for many years. They have been put through so much and the court system didn't realize what the right thing to do. The court system wasn't even sure what to do which is unprofessional. African Americans who went to school with white children just played with them selves because they were drilled into their heads that they are not good enough and that they are inferior to everyone else and won't be successful in society with everyone else.
1) "Black children will remain 'less qualified' until we gain representative influence in both the institutions of preparation and the institutions for which they are being prepared."
This is a great quote because there is absolutely no reason to have black children be called "less qualified." People need to change the way we think about black people and their children. They are just as qualified as white people are. Teachers need to teach them just how they will to other children in their class, it shouldn't matter the color of their skin.
2) "The first is that segregation's only purpose is to label or define blacks as inferior and thus exclude them from full and equal participation in society."
This is saying that segregation is the purpose of blacks not being able to have the equal opportunity they should have in society. Blacks are being labeled as inferior people that are unable to do anything that they want to do. They are scared to go out in society to get a job and to live life freely.
3) "Once it is understood that the injury results from the existence of the label of inferiority, it becomes clear that the cure must involve the removal of that label. The mere placement of black and white children in the same school does not remove the brand imprinted by years of segregation."
I thought this quote was very powerful because it says a lot, it is saying that African Americans are scared to be in schools with white because they have been taught that they are inferior to everyone else. There is no way they can get that out of their mind from all the years of segregation, its been drilled into their heads that they will live and be like this forever.
Conclusion:
I believe that there is no way to change the way African American's think of them selves in schools after being segregated for many years. They have been put through so much and the court system didn't realize what the right thing to do. The court system wasn't even sure what to do which is unprofessional. African Americans who went to school with white children just played with them selves because they were drilled into their heads that they are not good enough and that they are inferior to everyone else and won't be successful in society with everyone else.
1 comment:
I really like the last quote you picked. I think it is really powerful and meanigful to the argument of the article
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