• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m pretty young and my mom has told me stories about when the token black kid was bussed into her Oklahoma school because of legal requirements. She’s not even retired yet. Passing a law doesn’t magically fix things overnight. It takes time AND community effort to enact social changes

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      I’m in my late 30s, and my older brother went to a different elementary school than I did because of the city’s integration program. I went to the school up the street in our neighborhood; he was bussed to the inner city.

      We’re not nearly as far from the effects of racism as the racists want us to believe.