This isn't true! I mean come on! Maybe back in the 60s...

[conny63malies]

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Not any schools that are public. Private...maybe. As for racism in the south...well..there are parts of the country where things are still scary. In Colorado you get the occasional yaywho who is just an individual racist with a few equally ignorant buddy. I think a lot of the country is like that. Then there are creepy pockets of hatred you run in to every once in a while and as you drive away you vow never to return...

Its the same everywhere. you know, some schools are sort of segregated. Iknow of schools that are 100% white, mostly in small appalachian towns. At the most you got a handful of asisn kids from a local restaurant owner, there are also schools that are almost 100% black in mostly poor neighborhoods. I know a school in Pine Hills Fl that only has 3% white kids eventhough the state average is 46%

 

[Illia]

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Yep. Honestly how many people truly realize there are LOADS of schools out there which are filled with about 90% or more of just ONE race? In a normal city?

 

[justafewchickens]

I've lived in the south all my life. Most of the racist people I see have moved here from northern states. Really surprised me, cause EVERYONE says we in the South are all racist and backwards. Some people still think our toilets don't flush! Lots of conservatives here though, but they would rather segregate based on money and class, not race.

 

[Moochie]

Like Korea Town? And Thai Town? China town and Little Tokyo. (I'm partly asian so I know of these places). That is kind of strange that LA does that.
Going to a school on an air force base, I see mostly of one race, yeah, and tons of other people.
Hmm, well people will be people. No doubt about that.

 

[Royd]

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Call me cynical, but I suspect that your teacher was displaying prejudice and bigotry, while trying to show everyone how erudite she is.

 

[Ridgerunner]

It is a whole lot better than it was, but kids learn hatred and bigotry from their parents. I don't think we will ever totally get rid of it, but it is a whole lot better than when I was growing up. And certainly don't believe the myth that it is only in the South. I see a lot now pointed toward the Browns that was once pointed at the Blacks. Some things never change, they just get redirected.

A lot of the current segregation is more due to economic conditions than race as far as the schools, South, North, East, or West. There are factors other than pure race involved. White flight was a real thing. But I noticed in New Orleans that when the Blacks got better off economically, they also left the poor neighborhoods. Again, more economic than pure racism, but racism was often involved. But it was called White Flight for a reason.

I do not for a minute deny that a lot of the private and parochial schools came about because of racism. It was not so much pure Whites versus Blacks but White girls and Black boys. Some people were really freaked about that. But pure bigotry regardless of sex was also a part of it.

I could tell you some stories of what I experienced as a white male from blacks back in the 60's and 70's. Don't think that the Blacks were not as upset as the Whites over a mixed marriage. One guy I met in Basic Training from Detroit said he had not seen a white face in person until he joined the Army. He was a decent guy. Also, I could tell you of some actions by whites that were really despicable. I'll not deny that the Blacks had it worse, but race relations were not really pleasant for anyone. We were a lot closer to a race war than a lot of people now realize. At least we are beyond that now.

But for your teacher's basic premise that segregation if schools is now in public schools in the South. I detect strong bigotry on the part of a certain teacher. That teacher is at least three decades out of touch.

 

[dainerra]

some schools in the south DO still have racially segregated school functions. Even though this article is from 2009, as far as I know the prom is still segregated.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24prom-t.html?pagewanted=all
Racially segregated proms have been held in Montgomery County — where about two-thirds of the population is white — almost every year since its schools were integrated in 1971. Such proms are, by many accounts, longstanding traditions in towns across the rural South, though in recent years a number of communities have successfully pushed for change. When the actor Morgan Freeman offered to pay for last year’s first-of-its-kind integrated prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi, his home state, the idea was quickly embraced by students — and rejected by a group of white parents, who held a competing “private” prom. (The effort is the subject of a documentary, “Prom Night in Mississippi,” which will be shown on HBO in July.) The senior proms held by Montgomery County High School students — referred to by many students as “the black-folks prom” and “the white-folks prom” — are organized outside school through student committees with the help of parents. All students are welcome at the black prom, though generally few if any white students show up. The white prom, students say, remains governed by a largely unspoken set of rules about who may come. Black members of the student council say they have asked school administrators about holding a single school-sponsored prom, but that, along with efforts to collaborate with white prom planners, has failed

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I can tell you that my town here in AR is HUGELY racist. My brother was called several slurs when he was visiting last year. I've seen people walk out of McDonald's when they hired a black employee. They refused to eat food that was touched by a black person. I could go on and on and on with incidents that I have actually seen and the things I hear people say daily at work.

Of course, I'm only a short drive from the birthplace of the clan, so that might be it.

 

[pdbantam]

Could chickens be the answer to world peace? I mean, we gather on here from all over the world and we manage to get along. Maybe everyone needs a chicken

Anyway, I'm a teacher in south Mississippi and I couldn't name one school that is racially segregated. That would be very illegal. I don't even know of any private schools that are segregated. If one has enough money, the doors are open.

 

[chickened]

There are many organizations that are segregated other than schools but not officially, segregation is merely separation by races usually or ethnic, religious. It is what goes on in those arenas that becomes bigotry. It is a constitutionally protected right.

 

[goldtopper]

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Sssh, then everyone will figure out that diversity cannot be forced.