It wasn't too long before that where schools had a boys entrance and a girls entrance with separate classes for each. I'm not even 50 yet and the schools I went to were built in the 50s and 60s. And they had big stonework above the doors that says BOYS over the doors on the east wing and GIRLS on the west wing.
They had to have armed guards walk children into classrooms and make sure they felt safe. If it was allowed to happen gradually, get people used to the idea, it would have been better. Or make integrated and non integrated schools. But they know what that would psychologically do. "You mean I don't have to do that? Okay, I'll go to school there." Then the haves and have nots appear as schools fill back up again with one color and not the other.
Instead what did they do to everyone? People that don't look like you exist and they want what you have, we're going to make sure they get it by force. You must accept it. District lines now dictate what school you can go to, and it may mean not even be the one you were in just weeks before this.
Yea, ideally I’d love to see everyone linking arms and singing Kumbaya but I understand the reality I live in. Like you said, the more I look at history the more I think it should’ve happened gradually. I also am opposed to forced integration or segregation so if people want to associate then great, if not that is fine as well. There is a guy named Chad Jackson who has done videos on the exact point you are making
Integration was forced onto people in the 60s.
It wasn't too long before that where schools had a boys entrance and a girls entrance with separate classes for each. I'm not even 50 yet and the schools I went to were built in the 50s and 60s. And they had big stonework above the doors that says BOYS over the doors on the east wing and GIRLS on the west wing.
They had to have armed guards walk children into classrooms and make sure they felt safe. If it was allowed to happen gradually, get people used to the idea, it would have been better. Or make integrated and non integrated schools. But they know what that would psychologically do. "You mean I don't have to do that? Okay, I'll go to school there." Then the haves and have nots appear as schools fill back up again with one color and not the other.
Instead what did they do to everyone? People that don't look like you exist and they want what you have, we're going to make sure they get it by force. You must accept it. District lines now dictate what school you can go to, and it may mean not even be the one you were in just weeks before this.
Now tell me how that was the right thing to do.
Yea, ideally I’d love to see everyone linking arms and singing Kumbaya but I understand the reality I live in. Like you said, the more I look at history the more I think it should’ve happened gradually. I also am opposed to forced integration or segregation so if people want to associate then great, if not that is fine as well. There is a guy named Chad Jackson who has done videos on the exact point you are making