Three Quotes to Discuss from Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid

Matthew Williams

English 1100

29 October 2015
Prof. Young

1. "Perhaps most damaging to any serious effort to address racial segregation openly is the refusal of most of the major arbiters of culture in our northern cities to confront or even clearly name an obvious reality they would have castigated with a passionate determination in another section of the nation fifty years before—and which, moreover, they still castigate today in retrospective writings that assign it to a comfortably distant and allegedly concluded era of the past."  This quote  means that many people refuse to put their students in these types of schools.  These schools want to get rid of segregation in schools.  They want more types of people in the school. 

2. "Many educators make the argument today that given the demographics of large cities like New York and their suburban areas, our only realistic goal should be the nurturing of strong, empowered, and well-funded schools in segregated neighborhoods."  This quote means that the town should put more funds into the schools to make it better, so more types of people come to the school. 

3. "The bad times were seized upon politically to justify the cuts, and the money was never restored once the crisis years were past."  This quotes means, that the students are not getting the extra curriculum activities because of the budget cuts in the schools.  The students are not getting the right kind of equipment they need to have in school.