School Segregation Is Racism

 

In other words, Malay kids can go to low-quality government schools while Chinese kids will go to better-quality Chinese schools. Hence Malays will receive a poor education like the blacks of America while Chinese will receive a good education like the whites of America. THAT IS RACISM!

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Below is the Wikipedia write-up on the fight to end segregation in schools in America for more than 200 years. The struggle intensified under President John Kennedy when riots opposing the end of segregation in buses and schools erupted.

Anyway, the long and short of it is school segregation is racism. And the argument that Chinese schools are better than government-run schools, hence Chinese want to go to Chinese schools and not to government schools, makes it worse.

In other words, Malay kids can go to low-quality government schools while Chinese kids will go to better-quality Chinese schools. Hence Malays will receive a poor education like the blacks of America while Chinese will receive a good education like the whites of America. THAT IS RACISM!

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(Wikipedia) – School segregation in the United States has been an issue in the long history of its past and the current present. In 1782, African Americans in Boston, including Prince Hall, campaigned against inequality and discrimination in the city’s public schools. They petitioned the state legislature, protesting that their taxes supported the schooling of white students while there was no public school open to their children. The Noyes Academy in New Hampshire preceded it, and there had been efforts to establish a college for African Americans in New Haven, Connecticut.

Efforts to form the college were stopped by opposition from whites, and the school was destroyed in mob attacks. Prudence Crandall was not allowed to admit an African American girl to her Canterbury Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut. She converted the boarding school to one for only African American girls, but Crandall was jailed for her efforts. A Black Law was passed in the state, and she had to go to court Crandall v. State to continue to operate her school, which closed after mob attacks.

In 1835, an anti-abolitionist mob attacked and destroyed Noyes Academy, an integrated school in Canaan, New Hampshire founded by abolitionists in New England. In 1849, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were allowed under the Constitution of Massachusetts.

Segregation took de jure, then de facto form in the Southern United States with the passage of Jim Crow laws in the 19th century. Such laws were influenced by discrimination throughout the United States, as well as the history of slavery in the southern states. Patterns of residential segregation and Supreme Court rulings regarding previous school desegregation efforts also have a role.

School segregation declined rapidly during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Segregation appears to have increased since 1990. The disparity in the average poverty rate in the schools whites attend and blacks attend is the single most important factor in the educational achievement gap between white and black students. (READ MORE HERE)