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"That we even use the word “busing” to describe ...court-ordered school desegregation, and that Americans of all stripes believe that [briefly trying] to desegregate our schools was a failure, speaks to one of the most successful propaganda campaigns of the last half century." @sidhubaba/1149667446497787904Permalink On twitter.com
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Important side-note: California was the 8th most racially segregated state out of 50 in 2012. Talk of cosmopolitan, progressive Cali elides a deeply entrenched system of racial geography and public funding inequalities.Permalink On twitter.com
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"Parents demanded integration only after they realized that in a country that does not value black children the same as white ones, black children will never get what white children get unless they sit where white children sit." @nhannahjones 👏👏👏On twitter.com