Segregation Nation: How US Schools Remain Divided

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[@elliot_729]

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[@ground_news]

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[@strangejune]

This doesn't make sense to me. I remember other advertisements saying "find the bias of your news, left or right" and I was trying to figure out why I would willingly read coverage from someone that would literally rather I not exist. Like, thanks but no thanks?

[@neglectfulsausage7689]

Florida A&M is a nearly all black college, and it produces black supremacists or anti-white people like ibram kendi. They dont attack their students for calling white people aliens or demons. They praise them and help them rationalize their arguments better. On work crews, if you try to integrate gold brickers, you dont raise the gold bricker out of being worthless. It actaully drags the whole crew down and they stop performing as well. The same is true of attempting forced integration. All the potentially successful kids will just get worse and worse. No amount of rubbing green pieces of paper all over children will magically make them smarter, more competent, or more driven to succeed. And if all that didnt clue you in, search on the browser for "blacks want safe spaces from whites at college". They want segregation because they cant succeed comparable to white or asian or jewish competency, and so "this must be a component of racism and therefore we need our own space to be with ourselves". Check out destiny youtubers "uncomfortable study that ended affirmative action". When they pushed a mass amount of blacks into college on free rides because "they could just do better with more support" the drop out rate was insane. Genetics is no ones fault. But cold winter or harsh environment genes will weed out the less competent people very rapidly leaving an overrepresentational pool of competents. The same is exactly what Eric Weinstein said on Triggernometry about Jewish people: "We had to be highly competent for people to leave us alone as an ethnic group". this exactly why they're now blaming "whiteness and colonialism in math" for why blacks are failing. Because "the math must be racist if blacks can't do as well statistically within math. We must reshape and reform math to talk about.. what exactly? In order for blacks to start doing equal to white peers in math. Except all of this is predicated on the notion that "if there isnt 50/50 representation in schools it must be because racism". Because there's plenty of black geniuses around, but if you're 13% of a population, you're going to be wildly underrepresented in merit Only based systems for intelligence, because there's so many more from other ethnic groups.

[@acedwards819]

@@strangejune Ground news was founded by some tech bro dickhead who doesn't care about politics, just money. Think of it as wartime profiteering, seems pretty fitting given how party fighting is

[@darkstarr984]

I went to a university in Tennessee for one semester. There was a plaque about the first Black student at the university, and a plaque memorializing that *this was the only city in the South that desegregated schools without rioting.*

[@mawsh5399]

I attend a Tennessee university, the ROTC building is named after the guy who founded the KKK 🙃

[@TamRoxPox]

The bare minimum of not being racist is worth a statue.... so dumb

[@NotBamOrBing]

​@@mawsh5399not sure what's more dystopian, the ROTC building being named that, or the existence of ROTCs being a thing

[@NotBamOrBing]

Had to google the acronym to find out what it meant and immediate WTF moment

[@WaterDefysGravity]

whats so bad about it genq@@NotBamOrBing

[@thelongerrun]

Discussions about segregation always center around public/charter schools, but I can tell you from first hand experience that things get even weirder and more horrible in the private school world. I think that doesn't get talked about as much because the prevailing opinion in US discourse is that private schools can do whatever they want. However, it's worth examining that private schools are already providing a kind of class segregation. When that is paired with racial segregation, private schools can have an outsized effect on creating a racially homogeneous elite.

[@iversiafanatic]

Private Christian schools don’t require teaching licenses in many states. They also don’t require a history of working with children. I dunno how that works but I’ve interviewed as a math teacher for a few and they made me go, “uhhhh… how is ANYONE ok with this? I’m leaving.” It’s just too sketch on all levels. It also makes it obvious what their REAL education goals are…

[@Brain_CellsAre_Lost]

@@iversiafanaticAs someone who has gone to one for 7 years and is still going, it’s REALLY obvious. And it sucks because we have to go to mass every Friday

[@vitasomething]

i mean class seggregation is sorta inherint to capitalism

[@pigcatapult]

I was a special ed kid (ADHD, undiagnosed autism), and the thing about special ed classes is that they’re typically very small, because there are usually only a dozen or so kids in the whole school with sufficient disability to need it. The year I went to a public high school, my special ed classes were packed to a full thirty students: Every seat not filled by a disabled kid was filled by a black one. The campus got increasingly whiter the further you got from the corner with the special ed portables.

[@coyote2733]

I graduated from Little Rock Central High School last year, and not only is Little Rock still full of these white flight schools with majority white students to this day, but Central High is also segregated. There are classes taught by AP certified teachers with lots of degrees, and they’re all white/indian/East Asian students. Then, there are classes taught by coaches with limited knowledge of the subject they teach, which are full of black/latino/indigenous students. We may all be in the same building, but we still never see each other. The segregation still exists, but has just been changed to the classes you’re in and the quality of education you get. Counselors have been known to discourage BIPOC students from applying for colleges and to withhold scholarship recommendations to BIPOC students. Our principal prides the school on its inclusivity and constantly cites the Little Rock Nine’s attendance to prove it, but still keeps down BIPOC students as much as possible.

[@iversiafanatic]

This is actually a really fantastic point, and you’ve got me thinking a lot. This happened in my majority white school growing up in liberal portland, even. The best teachers all got put in the IB courses which cost a thousand dollars to take. Even though the school encouraged everyone to take them and said they’d supplement the cost, I didn’t see basically any Latino kids in my classes, despite being the majority racial minority around our area. I didn’t even think about til now, but I was struggling with math til I joined an IB course with a great teacher at that highschool. I study math now, so that really influenced me. Having tiered education really leads to segregation if the more passionate and educated teachers are focusing on the college prep kids, aka white and with generational wealth that lets them buy tutors at younger ages. It’s not on purpose, but that’s how the system is.

[@Gingerphile00]

you aren't owed access to white spaces, african. white flight is the escape of the abused, from their abusers.

[@Savariable]

Just in the first 6 minutes I came to the realization that I dont think I saw any black people at my high school except for one person who was mixed- I just never thought about this before and its horrifying-

[@sovietdoge.7369]

At my school, there were about ≈2000 kids, and about 20 of them were colored.

[@henryfleischer404]

I had a similar realization about my first elementary school. There was one black student, and he was constantly getting in trouble. I have no idea if he acted differently from the white students, that was over 15 years ago.

[@solarleaf2029]

I live in a school that’s the complete polar opposite. I’ve only seen about 2 or 3 or so white people; most of them are POC.

[@derpycows671]

I was one of the few black people in my high school. Being othered goes about as well as you'd expect

[@loganmcadoo1271]

Yall need to get more inclusion in yalls schools all of the schools I've been to in Oklahoma are very diverse and there are alot of pocs here 😊

[@DinggisKhaaniMagtaal]

Only 6 min in but as someone in grad school for policy and international development and as someone who taught English in Mongolia for a year, there is something I constantly think about connected to internalized racism that I thought I’d add in an international context (which I have also heard sometimes from members of indigenous communities in the states too). Our conceptualization of society has some pretty broad implications that can cause very similar internalized prejudices in people on the historical, cultural, and geographic “periphery.” I saw a lot of internalized prejudice in my Mongolian students because the country, by our international and “universalist” standards, is “backwards,” with having a tradition of nomadism and pastoralism that gives off a perception of technological and infrastructural lacking. Now having made friends with some African grad students in my program, it’s safe to say this is pretty common in the “developing” world, because our “universalist” concepts surrounding things such as governance, health, and education, are ironically narrow in such a manner that nonwestern culture that does not fit into this mold can only be valued as glorified museum pieces for “preservation,” which is an incredibly stifling thing to do and one that inherently values our Western-derived conceptualizations of society over indigenous ones. Luckily there is a growing number of indigenous scholars in the US and Canada that have been working to expand out of those limitations in such a manner that hopefully means a reclamation of indigenous governance and organization that does not exclude internationalist ideals. It’s always going to be though on us to change the binary perceptions on the “universalist” side of things. I do hope for my Mongolian students to see a country that doesn’t have to sacrifice the valuable concepts of nomadism and pastoralism just to “keep up” with international standards, even if being able to do both will require somewhat novel creativity, which I certainly know they are capable of! Just my personal ramble.

[@amarsaikhangan-erdene3173]

Hi fellow Mongolian here (I'm assuming ur mongolian too) I have nothing to say just glad to see I'm not alone watching this video.

[@justinwatson1510]

I think that if you go and ask individual nomads or substance farmers if they would prefer maintaining their status quo or getting to participate in an economy that would afford them the higher quality of life and longer life that comes with modern technology, I think a lot of them would prefer the latter. The problem is that my godforsaken home country won't allow anyone access to the global market without also opening themselves up to being exploited by the wealthy parasites who run our country. I absolutely agree that there shouldn't be value judgments made based on how people choose to organize their society nor their relative level of technological development. Americans nor Europeans are not superior to any other cultures because of our technology, and we certainly aren't based on our governments, economic system, nor our religions; if anything, I would say we should be ashamed of ourselves for the centuries of armed robbery, kidnapping, and forced labor for profit and the disgusting racist beliefs we adopted to rationalize stealing from and subjugating the rest of the world. We are going to have to pay for that one day, and the longer we wait the more we will owe.

[@DinggisKhaaniMagtaal]

@@justinwatson1510 I think we are mostly in agreement! The issue, as you said, comes more from our knowledge and economic systems created what are essentially arbitrated exclusions and binary decisions. The current international status quo, as it stands, is that you either “develop” or you keep your traditions at the cost of quality of life. We don’t have to throw out all modern technology because of the exploitative system it developed in, but it’s good to critically engage with how we interact with and conceptualize our ideas of governance, economy, and tech. What I would hope to see, or have my grandchildren see, would be spaces where a people doesn’t have to give up one for the other essentially. Cuz yeah, I’ve talked to some nomads and they would rather have their children get a good education and have the ability to choose their lifestyles, but as you have also regarded, there is a big feeling of pressure to “modernize” in the face of pastoralism, which while it is a pretty hard way of living, it’s also pretty damn rewarding and has created such a colorful set of beliefs and standards that really deserve to be valued. Ive talked with some younger people in UB and some of them like the idea of expanding remote learning so kids can stay in the countryside if their family chooses, for example. It’s definitely a very complicated and all-encompassing conversation, but it’s also one I believe holds so much opportunity for mutual learning. But yeah, it sounds like we are mostly in agreement, especially on the exploitative history of the West and its continued legacy

[@DinggisKhaaniMagtaal]

@@amarsaikhangan-erdene3173 Thank you! I’m actually American haha but I’ve lived in UB for about two years total, on and off. I’ll be back again this summer too haha

[@Gingerphile00]

you right, wed don't need 'international standards' and that includes the social justice hogwash that people like you espouse. white people have a right to their own spaces and to be left alone by hostile out groups.

[@KaiM6969]

This your daily reminder that you should be educating yourself constantly. Not only when a specific month calls for it.

[@thag_simmons]

worth noting that ruby bridges, the first black child to attend a(n otherwise) all-white school in the south, is still alive. famed american artist norman rockwell was called a "race traitor" for painting ruby in "The Problem We All Live With" as centerfold art for Look magazine's issue on january 14, 1964. martin luther king jr. was a fan of star trek and personally convinced actress nichelle nichols to stay on the cast after season 1. these events are far from dead and buried.

[@eeveearoace]

The middle school I went to was as predominantly black - probably about 75% to 90% black. However, I always thought it was more diverse than it truly was because the AP classes were more white than the non-AP classes - probably about 50% black. I never even realized it until my teacher explicitly called it out. Not in a black-people-are-dumb sort of way, but in a systemic-racism-causes-black-kids-to-underachieve sort of way.

[@Gingerphile00]

the only systematic rascism is against whites. not some 'invisible backpack' but literal law and cultural norms that discriminate against white people. africans are highly tribal and favor their own, a majority african school wil have a pro-arican bias, the explanation for the failue of the african to measure up is based in genentics, not some invisible anti-african bias that only exists in the minds of african supemacists

[@SageRexWasTaken]

@@Gingerphile00 you got sources for any of these claims?

[@sunisdeadly]

​@@Gingerphile00Source?

[@isaac6077]

@@SageRexWasTakenwhats affirmative action dumb dumb

[@AlonAltman]

Just wanted to say: Your B-roll game is legendary!

[@c82401]

One of my best friends lives in deep south Georgia. He went to his high school's NINTH integrated prom, and he graduated in 2019. Segregation is absolutely still a massive problem, thank you for making a video about it

[@gothicanimegirl44]

The rim world music is calming but puts me slightly on edge which is honestly a perfect combination for this kind of video. It is calming enough to prevent people from feeling blaimed but on edge enough to make you focus on every detail. Which is what you want for this kind of video.

[@PersonstuckinMichigan]

It makes me very happy that my school, somehow, seems to have as close to an even split between white people, people of color and even a decent east asian population.

[@cats9994]

Same my high school was quite diverse.

[@bclubofawesomeness2894]

are. are asians not ppl of color.

[@neglectfulsausage7689]

Why does that make you happy? Do you think there's 50/50 split in population in the U.S. or globally? There isn't. Would you be happy to go to a school in China where "there's 50/50 white vs chinese people so I love it". Your statement is nonsensical.

[@neglectfulsausage7689]

I mean, imagine, claiming that you believe ethnicity and genes dont matter, but also you're happy that you see equal representation of those ethnic groups and genes around you, because youre Totally Not Racist, right? You talk out of both sides of your mouth.

[@PersonstuckinMichigan]

@@neglectfulsausage7689 Uh. White people make up about 60 percent of the population. As far as I'm concerned, my school hits that pretty much on the mark. Do some basic ass research please.

[@jerseyjess7826]

the Charlotte bussing story has always made me so angry. the unmitigated gall of that father to put until motion the destruction of so many other children's education and then move so the ruling he wanted didn't even benefit his kid... 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@BrianS1981]

It's like the coach who kept fighting in the courts to be allowed to abuse children under his care by forcing his religion on them until he won, whereby he flat out refused to come back and take up the job the school was now forced to offer back to him. The US is going down a very dark path these days, all because there is one party willing and able to destroy what few democratic controls that are in place there.

[@jerseyjess7826]

@BrianS1981 oh that story pisses me off too. like it's bad enough to fuck over so many people to get what they want but then when they are given their victory at the expense of everyone else, to then be like "nah never mind" it's just.... there aren't words to express that level of spiteful petulance.

[@isaac6077]

I like that yalls blatantly ignore that the supreme court found yiu were discriminating against white folk and your kinds first responce was oh how will our dear black flok recover

[@NormDeMoss]

I was fortunate enough to go to a magnet school in a district where it's been effective and successful - but in a state with a huge segregation and "parental choice" problem. This video was so helpful in discussing the range of issues - class, law, political trends, individual loudmouths - that have combined to cause these persistent bad outcomes. Thank you.

[@justinwatson1510]

We need to get rid of magnet schools entirely. They only exist to funnel money out of standard public schools; even the ones that are actually good for the students serve to help those students at the expense of others.

[@Gingerphile00]

freedom of association isn't a 'problem' its a human right. africans aren't owed access to other peoples spaces

[@ellicurus]

Our doki doki homie got a sponsor!! Lets grow this doki doki family 😊

[@weknekdae1013]

hello alex i am tired and not in my right mind so i cant actually think of a response that i would normally write at this moment but i love your videos and im super proud of you getting a sponsor! girlys in the big leagues ong!!

[@justsomeanimator]

2:40 seeing you mess about with that weird thing is oddly hilarious. I still dont know what it is but i love your work

[@ChubuPeng]

looks like a rotten banana

[@atlasthewolf1508]

Oh yeah, that’s a banana that was left outside for some reason.

[@forivall]

Yeah, in my canadian high school, the gifted/talented program was like 20% white while the general school was only 10% white.

[@justinwatson1510]

Gifted programs suck and should be done away with. If anything, I think being in gifted classes did more longterm harm than good.

[@forivall]

@@justinwatson1510 I think it depends on what kind of gifted program. The ones that I did were, in elementary school, like a period a week of fun extra math exploration, and in secondary, a magnet school within a school ("mini school") with a stable class, a few accelerated courses and extra extracurricular activities.

[@writer4life724]

As somone who just got their degree for secondary education, more universities are trying to make new teachers aware of this very issue. However, there's a stubbornness from certain communities to acknowledge and fix the issues we've known about for decades. Thank you for shining a light on these issues and reminding folks that these systems are still in dire need of examination and repair, if not full destruction and rebuilding from the ground up.

[@justinwatson1510]

You can just say racist white people.

[@Brundelkarf]

As a German who has been on a very diverse School it was interesting and shocking to see how segregated the US School system is, so thank you ver< much for this really important look on the topic. Also DDD: “I don’t even like Bananas!” DDD: “Finds a old Banana he finds disgusting.” Also DDD: “Trows that thing around like a racist who sees someone they don’t like.”

[@844SteamFan]

20:11 I actually learned about White Flight in my 8th Grade history class. My history teacher that year was really cool, I’m glad my sister had him as well.

[@Gingerphile00]

its called called freedom of association, abusive and violent people are not owed access to their victims. africans are not owed access to white people

[@crunchylettuce5446]

It's an important topic, thx for covering it

[@FuDiggity]

Yo. Been a follower for years between Twitter and KZbin. Missed the noti on this one, but you really went in. Loved to see it.

[@wyattcalcote5867]

Love the content- you keep me sane!

[@coolrabi9534]

HELOO I DONT LIVE IN AMERICA SO IDC ABOUT WHATEVER IS HAPPENING IN THAT HELL OF A COUNTRY BUT I WATCH UR VIDEOS ANYWAYS CAUSE THEYRE REALLY COOL HORAYYYYY NEW VIDEOOOOO

[@disgoop]

yeah that place is fucked

[@AlmostMilk.]

So real for that

[@just_a_dustpan]

Yeah we’re fucked. I desperately want to move away from this hellhole but I’m poor

[@Ezra411st]

USA is not greatest country in the world, so you know how the Americans like to make fun of/look down upon people who are from and live in Florida, and hwts hke the USA is for the rest of the world, itd a hell hole, and dumb country that zkme how runs

[@VeraExora]

​@@just_a_dustpan Ah yes. Land of the free

[@gabef.218]

Holy shit, never would've guessed a cool KZbinr I found by chance on the internet lives in the same school district as me. Neat!

[@A6by]

The thing I find weird about this is that it always results in lots of random people having a very specific situation growing up - either being nearly the only black kid in a white school, or nearly the only white kid in a black school. All because you happen to live in the "wrong" place to get "correctly" sorted by these systems. So, shout out to all my homies out there who grew up being the weird kid because of this. We made it, and hopefully future generations will have much better balances of *all* sorts of people 😅

[@t0x1ctat3r]

this was totally me man, i was 1 of 8 white kids in my school in Florida, but when i moved to michigan, it was a total shock to me when my school had maybe 17 black kids

[@CarlosMarshall-n1j]

I'm planning on leaving as soon as I can afford to. This country is so fucked.

[@moonblaze2713]

I know this about a different vid but you said it in this one so: "Turns out you can only research it for so long without it taking a toll." Some people live with it. Don't get me wrong, you're doing good work, you should take care of yourself. But that one isn't something I can escape. Which is why I wanted to say thank you so much for wading into it with me. Means the world to not feel alone.

[@DrDolphina]

First!! LOVE THIS!! AFTER THIS VIDEO IM GOING TO REWATCH OTHER VIDEOS OF YOURS

[@satorukuroshiro]

My district wasn't really segregated by race, but it absolutely was segregated by economic class, and because of the racial-economic relation, while the school I went to was very mixed, the higher income school that the district favored kept having to pay minority families to send their kids there in order to avoid looking white-only. Sadly, red-lining may be illegal, but the consequences of it are still affecting communities.

[@countdoku1430]

Another banger from Alex as always

[@elliot_729]

Finally new video!!!

[@anyarobinson2334]

I absolutely love the video clips that you used in places where you didnt have visuals. This video also was incredibly informative, thank you

[@Shay22783]

rimworld ost as background music is peak

[@vizzzyy190]

i commented under someone else but im adding another comment to hopefully help boost this video. this is such an incredibly important topic, and hopefully since mlk jr day just passed and black history month is coming up, this video gets more traction.

[@adeliesaintgabriel2923]

Always love your vids!!

[@mr.duck1246]

I’ve wondered this for a while cause when I see clips online of classrooms, all kids are the same race except for maybe a few, and I’m like “I thought segregation was over in the states?”

[@amygrowls]

I see a new Doki video, I click

[@SPARKRIZZLE]

this video deserves a lot more attention

[@yikesk]

another banger video as always

[@littletoolateproductions4958]

LOVE FROM LANSING! And man i agree with your views very much and how you dgaf what others say

[@Aryasvitkona]

My favourite MLK quote is "Rioting is the voice of the unheard" among similar statements. Despite how often he was brought up by racists and cringe optics obsessed leftists, MLK was NOT at ALL ideologically opposed to rioting. He did not like it. He did not endorse it. But he never condemned it. I heard a quote I'll paraphrase, it may be MLKs, but I doubt it. It goes something akin to "People only riot when you've stopped listening. The only way to successfully end rioting is to ask them why they're angry." And oh boi do I agree wholeheartedly. The only reason we have rights for ANY minority group, LGBT people, people of colour, people of Asian descent, etc can ALL be traced back to not only what was called rioting then, but what I'd call rioting now. And it fucking worked. Oh also they called MLK an extremist, the FBI told him to kill himself, then the FBI assassinated him because he was viewed as a riot instigator FUN FACT

[@hyperion3145]

Also, MLK was an actual socialist. It's not often brought up in schools and isn't surprising, but it does add onto why the FBI and CIA were especially afraid of him and labeled him as a terrorist.

[@Gingerphile00]

your advocating for terrorism against white people who don't submit to african supemacy. africans are not owed access to white spaces. leave. us. alone.

[@isaac6077]

His quote is him directly endorcing riots bud. Your double think is through the bloody roof

[@elliot_729]

Yay new video!!!!

[@50_Foot_Punch]

Thought I left Rimworld open when i started this video.

[@844SteamFan]

I really love the outfit you are wearing in this video, it looks really nice!

[@joedyisonfire4903]

Well. There’s another tally on the “Reasons to Hate Reagan” board

[@Sepi-chu_loves_moths]

Must be a big board if you can fit all of those

[@gretafrancoeur2599]

As a student in Vermont who has attended public school here since kindergarten I definitely have been noticing that almost all the kids at my school are white (me included). It’s generally pretty progressive up here but it was incredibly hard to really get my head around that people of color were just normal people because you see them so rarely here. There’s a lot more people of color in my high school because there are a lot of sending schools.

[@Gingerphile00]

if you don't like living in a white area, move to detroit and leave other white people alone.

[@isaac6077]

Leftists have no imagination. Imagine my surprise

[@BloodeyRose]

The video is good and all but I have to ask, is that the rim world soundtrack you using in the background

[@tilleulenmirror2018]

It definitely is. I actually can't concentrate on his voice since noticing it XD

[@wolftexgaming4386]

This is a great video, deserves much more views. I love the background footage of you just vibing out, and the mention of queerness was great too! My exact thoughts.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

Reconstruction must be completed.

[@Gingerphile00]

deportation to africa must be completed

[@mildcarrotaddiction]

I swear I heard Rimworld music at the start of it

[@theblorg2637]

knowing a person as queer as yours truly plays rimworld has to be the most gratifying thing ever. oh right and the videos good ig

[@pining_tree6788]

This was something I got to see in action as despite moving to a more liberal state, I ended up in a much less diverse district. Even if my former district was in the state with the worst education, some of my fellow students were so ignorant, and I definitely missed out on learning a lot of cultural diversity

[@PatrickWDunne]

Babe, wake up. New Doki Doki video dropped.

[@lio5693]

off-topic but i couldnt stop giggling when you were reacting to the floor banana

[@Lolsout]

Is it just me or do hear the Rimworld music

[@kyokasuigetsu5752]

immediately recognizable music

[@bulbakingdoot3514]

Great video

[@Shoshua1]

3:03 I can’t believe DDD would litter

[@OnPlanetVenus]

22:31 “big government moocher” really got me 🤣

[@Shmeeby9411]

Great video.

[@heartbunnymoth]

hey youre back :D

[@beanfrog6708]

As someone who’s moved through many school districts I can definitely confirm the funding inequality. Even amongst neighboring districts and within them.

[@JustinSmith-mh7mi]

The Hotline Miami outro music goes hard

[@yesicpwee8545]

Nice tem shop remix bruv

[@claudiacook619]

I was playing rimworld with sound off, so confused as to why the music was still playing

[@victormirandakoepke8352]

I see no one else commenting on this but hearing the Rimworld music and not committing war crimes makes my brain feel funny

[@mocatdow]

You said everything ive been trying to tell people about the GATE program for years. Its absolutely segregated, and yet nobody wants to talk about it because its supposed to be about merit when one look at the average GATE classroom shows that it isnt

[@Sam-Pound]

That program was bussin.

[@happygilmore0812]

Great thoughtful piece as usual. Like others in the comments, this made me think of why I went to school in a very racially homogenized setting. I am thankful to be open to reflect on these things.

[@Happyhelper401]

I'm glad that I am in a more integrated school district, however my school has issues with classroom segregation you just made me think about the races of my classmates throughout the years. (I'm an honors/AP kid) There is a difference in the amount of people of color in my classes it's like 75% white. Even though my school is only ~50% white. And the BIPOC people in my classes tend to have lower confidence levels in their own intelligence. Even though they very well deserved to be called gifted. I will forever be grateful for this eye opening video.

[@vizzzyy190]

i was thinking the same thing. i live in a majority white city, but much of the younger generations are more diverse. even still, my classes were filled with white or asian kids as we were in ap classes. we had a LOT of issues with cliques and typically kids separated based on race. it didnt help that the black kids or latino kids were more likely to get suspended or be seperated into in house suspensions (aka detention during the day). its awful that even in "diverse" schools, segregation is still very real

[@Happyhelper401]

@@vizzzyy190 yeah I hate that due to the stereotypes that were made up to help segregation and to keep it in place, our peers have to live their lives with lowered senses of self esteem.

[@Happyhelper401]

And that's one of the least of the problems. But one I noticed in even the more "non-segregated" areas

[@isaac6077]

At least in some strange way u admit the blacks are doing it to themselfs

[@2RatsInATrenchCoat]

I found out about video from community post, KZbin didn't notify me smh

[@robsquared2]

My school had the metco program and I didn't fully realize why the did it until much later.

[@eightleganimations2595]

Yo I can heart the Rimworld soundtrack in the background!

[@bm4604]

I would have ended the video on that bussing joke. That was fire.

[@PloverTechOfficial]

I know it is common sense, but I believe that Segregation of all forms in school is useless/harmful. This includes Racial and Gender segregation.

[@oscarguzman3017]

Complimentary engagement

[@redmoon383]

Okay ngl i had to restart some part early on because i realized the rimworld music was playing the background and I zoned out

[@michaeljohnson1576]

Sometimes I feel so alien because my school in the small town of Bamberg, SC when I was growing up was around half white/half black and for the most part, we all got along and I, at least, felt equal. I wish more of that could be seen in America honestly...

[@shark_girl]

2:50 Woah what the hell is up w that banana 😮

[@citythatneedstoburn3484]

The background rimworld music freaked me out.

[@elliothennessy8360]

Wait a second. Is it standard for a district to have more than 15 schools? I’ve definitely heard of these districts, like obviously big cities (and “big” cities) exist and many/most of them have one large district with dozens of schools, but is that like, what a normal district is?

[@cstuart5638]

Why the hell did I sing read Segregation Nation like Conjunction Junction?

[@zaiden2becausejustzaidenisused]

its so fucking weird to be playing rimworld with a video with rw music in jt

[@justinwatson1510]

My parents were able to take me out of a public schools where white students were a minority to a public school where black students were minority by moving to a different county. The city school for the county seat was minority white, while my school was minority black.

[@justinwatson1510]

And, to be clear, we moved specifically so us kids could be in a minority-black school. They had put me into private school, but then had three more kids so that option became unviable.

[@AlmostMilk.]

Perfect thing to watch as i recover from the mlk parade

[@MikeMike-gy6xp]

Yeah growing up in South Carolina it was surreal. Town had three schools, and one was frequently just referred to as “the black school”. Love the rimworld music lol.

[@Gingerphile00]

surreal that white people are allowed to have their own space and not be complete slaves to the entitled africans?

[@pandicus2719]

"I think hes evil" lol good take

[@wtfman-k3g]

Bro really thought he could sneak rimworld music into here

[@chayes3042]

Literally lookup Hinsdale South vs Hinsdale central highschools

[@stachu5049]

I really have Segrenat Gationion

[@yukko_parra]

Whilst I'm not from the US, the effects of segregation does exist in my area to a certain extent. The racist messaging my parents have brought me under have made me more anxious around "different' (not certain races, not certain incomes) types of people, worsened by my lack of interaction to certain race groups (annoyingly, they've been my neighbours for half my life), although I'm trying to get out more often to expose myself to all sorts of people, to reduce my more visible biases.

[@nebulan]

21:58 nope 😬

[@TheLuckySpades]

That is the joke

[@Nickelbag610]

I have my own experience with this except due to my racist family it wasn't stated as a bad thing. My home town/district (we lost our post office so we because part of the neighboring town) was a sundown town. Made during white flight. I was told it was a point of pride they managed to keep black people from moving in till the early 70's. Im biracial white/Hispanic (Mexican). Though my moms family liked me more then my brother because i could pass as white. I also noticed me and my brother were treated differently in school. He has autism so was in special classes and this school just didn't want to give him resources. My mom had to fight constantly with the school so he could get his speech therapy and special clasess. With me the school brought up multiple time that they thought i had autism and wanted me tested but due my parents wanting a normal kid i wasn't allowed to be tested till i was an adult. Dispite this the school put me in special classes i just simply didn't need but couldn't but me in ones i neeeded. Like im terrible with math and spelling so they put me in a reading comprehension class... Which i didn't need and didn't want to do so over a weekend i read the whole book we were suppose to read in the class and did the the whole packet of questions. Turned it in and was removed from the class because it was clear i had reading comprehension. It was just so dumb and i hated my school for how they treated my brother and me.

[@polygondeath2361]

Is that rimworld music in the intro?

[@IzzyBeIIa]

Immediate Rimworld Music :)

[@skyeguy7914]

As always, it’s incredibly important to address these issues. And yet the thing that stuck with me the most is how surprising it is that right wing politicians will move heaven and earth for things they otherwise would not stand for (like education), if it means that it will grant them another way to bar access to people that are even slightly different from them.

[@Gingerphile00]

society bends over backwards for africans as it already is. they aren't owed access to white spaces, they are already granted affirmative action and special programs made just for them.

[@neurodivergentlyblog8882]

I’m American. I plan on moving to Canada whenever I can. This country is a shithole.

[@justinwatson1510]

There are a lot of people who cannot afford to move somewhere nicer, and America does a lot of harm in the rest of the world. Maybe it would be better if you got active in a communist or socialist party and fight to get rid of our current government. We could make America into a halfway decent country and protect all the other countries that America is currently letting Wall St. abuse for profit.

[@vizzzyy190]

completely understandable. just dont forget canada has its own issues and negative history, especially in regard to treatment of natives

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

As someone also looking to expatriate from the US, look elsewhere. Canada and UK are slowly and surely becoming mini-US in their own right. You would notice so few differences, it would feel like a waste of effort.

[@lemOwOnade]

As a Canadian, i would urge you to look elsewhere, even in the quote unquote “most diverse city” of vancouver, the schools are still very segregated, almost 99% of the students are white or asian where i went to

[@neurodivergentlyblog8882]

@@bazzfromthebackground3696 Where would you recommend then? I am willing to learn a different language. I'm a genderfluid queer white AuDHD Christian idgaf