Plenty of slurs at mine in the mid-late 00s. Poor whites who were local and poor blacks bussed in from the city so you had a nice equal representation of resentment and desperation.
Blacks had closer schools to attend than ours, but if they didn't bus them in on "minority-to-majority" (M-M) busses our poor white school out in the country would've been completely white which is apparently bad. And yes, civil rights era practices were still going on into the end of the 2000s.
There was general racial tension and usually it was the blacks causing all the trouble, they'd fight amongst themselves and every so often they'd feel this or that white slighted them in some fashion and they'd get a group together to jump the unfortunate white kid in the halls. Bomb threats or lockdowns at least once or twice a year, mesh or clear backpacks, drugs. The government's integration policies just brought the level of everything down. I'm amazed we didn't need metal detectors.
Plenty of slurs at mine in the mid-late 00s. Poor whites who were local and poor blacks bussed in from the city so you had a nice equal representation of resentment and desperation.
Blacks had closer schools to attend than ours, but if they didn't bus them in on "minority-to-majority" (M-M) busses our poor white school out in the country would've been completely white which is apparently bad. And yes, civil rights era practices were still going on into the end of the 2000s.
There was general racial tension and usually it was the blacks causing all the trouble, they'd fight amongst themselves and every so often they'd feel this or that white slighted them in some fashion and they'd get a group together to jump the unfortunate white kid in the halls. Bomb threats or lockdowns at least once or twice a year, mesh or clear backpacks, drugs. The government's integration policies just brought the level of everything down. I'm amazed we didn't need metal detectors.