Martin Luther King Jr. had an amazing and inspiring dream that I completely support. Unfortunately, we have ruined it. Do you want to know why some employers still care about a potential employee’s skin color? During and since the Civil Rights movement, employers have tried to give black people an equal chance. Some have worked hard and gone far. I applaud them. (Of course the African Americans that have accomplished this are often called “Uncle Tom” or a “traitor to their race” by less ambitious members of their race.) The unfortunate truth about the less ambitious members is that they often hold the attitude that an employer should not only hire them but that he should (or better yet, our best friend, the government, should) pay them regardless of the quality of their work. (The best part about the government is that it not only pays them, but it pays them at the expense of the hard workers of any race.)
I also feel the need to share how schools became desegregated because, although I do not think segregated schooling is right, this is what shows true racism. In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools could not fulfill their legal requirement of being “separate but equal” because they were “inherently unequal.” Zora Neale Hurston, a black author at the time, remarked that the idea that black schools were inherently inferior was offensive to blacks. That was the real racism.
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I am not sure if I completely understand how desegregation of schools was an example of racism. Were not better teachers recruited and more government funding than allocated to schools with white children, was not the desegregation giving each school a more equal opportunity to receive an education that was comparable to that of their peers? How would that decision be racism?
You make a lot of generalizations in this blog, which come across as slightly racist. Also, in 1954, black schools were signifcantly worse than white schools....
But that does not mean that Zora was against integration, although I totally understand what she meant. IMHO, she hated the idea that the answer to all Black people's problems was White people.
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