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I’ve stopped being surprised or offended when white colleagues don’t acknowledge me.
I remember being 24 years old, walking down the long high-school hallway to my classroom. At the other end of the hallway walked a white colleague towards me. I looked straight ahead to avoid the awkward silence as you close the distance, while you wait for the moment you’re close enough to say hello, and, seconds before you cross, say, “How’s it goin’?” Or give that tight smile. So footsteps before we passed shoulder to shoulder, I looked her way and said, “How’s it goin’?” It still happens all these years later.
Despite the implied arrogance by some, not all of my white colleagues over the years, I stopped being surprised or offended. I started at DePaul in 1990 and drove there in a '79 Pontiac Bonneville my dad bought me for $250. But I didn’t. I just said, "No, Pa. My dad responded, "¡Salúdelos, m'ijo! " So when I walked by the Mexican men landscaping each morning, I said, "Buenos días. " It is, Pops. Educator – Writer – Activist – Father. Thurgood Marshall Today, ProPublica released a special report on their website dedicated to the resegregation of America’s public schools.
With the 60th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision on May 17th approaching, ProPublica has focused this special section on Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where three separate and equally devastating stories will be told as case studies to highlight the effects of “letting” dreams of integration die on their own. Unfortunately, progress never just dies on its own, and in this case, it’s not completely unintentional.
In fact, I also believe we’ve made the race problem in our public schools far too distant from us to truly to see it as a local as well as a national problem. The problem is: it’s not just there. Therefore, it’s safe to assume that this isn’t just a “liberal” or “conservative” problem, but an “all public schools” problem. But if you’re still not convinced, that’s OK. Jose.