I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.
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In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
We are a racially structured country, one-thirds to two-thirds of African Americans are born into poverty. They are at a distinct disadvantage from the outset, and the divide between the rich and the poor only continues to grow.
I just don't think that's a constructive use of the time of the Senate, ... If we're going to get into the business of censuring members for racially sensitive comments, it's not going to be limited to Sen. Lott.
A retired teacher, and the daughter of a teacher who spent her career in the one- and two-room schools of a racially segregated Limestone County, Maggie attributes her ability to get along with people of all types, in part, to a lesson taught by the Rev. Judson King, her principal at Trinity High School. Rev. King was reared on a sharecropper's place - in Georgia, I think, ... He used to tell us how when his daddy died, the owner put his family off the place the same day his daddy was buried. The person who saw them going along the road with all their belongings and took them in was white. Rev. King said, 'Always remember, not all white people are bad not all black people are good.'
We don't just live in a black and white world anymore. In recent decades, the color brown has become too racially charged for a responsible institution like Brown to use as its name.
He should be fired. When someone makes comments like that, that are so obviously racially prejudiced. We don't tolerate that in modern American society. We certainly didn't tolerate it in the U. S. Army and we don't tolerate it here. It's wrong.
That women have developed a preference for large lips reflects changing notions of beauty. Thirty years ago Cheryl Tiegs was the cover girl ideal with her blond hair, blue eyes and relatively thin lips. But the population has become more racially diverse, and ethnic beauties now grace magazine covers. Once upon a time we used to write a story about minimizing your lips, ... Now that would never happen.
I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
We want to show that one can support your nation fully and vocally without resorting to racially abusing your opponents as happened to the South African team in Australia.
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.
Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
Every institutional sector you can point to, I'll show you a racial disparity. When you have a racially structured system, there are more black people at the bottom because there's a dual system that sorts them at the bottom.