English 1100/35
Professor Young
Still Separate Still Unequal Quotes
- "This he told me, pointing to the garbage bag, then gesturing around him at the other indicating of decay and repair one sees in ghetto schools much like it elsewhere, would not happen to white children."
- "In a similar document, the school board of another district, this one in New York State, referred to "the diversity" of its student population and "the rich variations of ethnic backgrounds." But when I looked at the racial numbers that the district had reported to the state, I learned that there were 2,800 black and Hispanic children in the system, 1 Asian child, and 3 whites."
- I asked how many white kids she had taught in the South Bronx in her career. "I've been at this school for eighteen years," she said. "This is the first white student I have ever taught."
