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Suppose the parents at the town hall meeting represented the viewpoints of the larger population in Normandy & St. Louis.

Review the notes you took about "The Problem We All Live With." Do you think that people's modern racism (e.g., colorblind & aversive racism, contributed to preventing Black students from access to better quality schools? Why or why not?

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Do you think institutional or systemic/structural racism was at played in preventing Black students from attending better quality schools? Why or why?

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(a) Why does the author title the podcast "The Problem We all Live With? (b) What is the underlying message of this title? (c) Do you agree or disagree with the author's perspective? Why?

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"The Problem We All Live With" describes what happened to Mah'Ria Pruitt-Martin in 2013-2014.

Suppose a similar situation arose in a predominantly White school (it might be your own or it might be a school located in a nearby community) today (2024). Suppose African-American and Latine/Latinx students were being transferred to this school because their home school was being shut down by the State.

(a) Do you think your community or the nearby community would support this action? Why or why not?

(b) Would there be issues of institutional, systemic/structural, or contemporary racism (e.g., aversive or colorblind)? Why do you think this would be the case?

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(a) I feel as though the community would support this action because its all about the kids and getting a better education for them.

(b) There would be issues of these types of racisms because in any situation, there is always going to be a least one person who is going to go against this and would feel a certain way. I know that my school was always accepting other kids and seeing the different experiences that they experienced.

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The town I grew up in was predominantly black/hispanic however, the town next to us was predominantly white. In that town there were many instances of racism when they played football or any sport really against my town. I would be really unsurprised if the next town over had a big problem with integrating the schools however in my town this absolutely would not be tolerated. In any instance of racism in or around my town it was immediately shut down by those in my community. The next town over I think there would be a lot of colorblind racism and claims of ‘not seeing color’ and it ‘not being a race issue’ because it is a predominantly white and rich area.

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My own community would not support this action. My hometown is predominantly white and although they claim to be progressive, when it comes down to it they are not. They have been very strongly against low income housing, so I am pretty sure it would be the same reaction, if not worse, as the Francis Howell district.

There would be. People would claim it isn’t a race issue, and that they know, and are friends with, POC, but they would be making very racist comments anyway. There would also be a lot of comments about “not seeing race”

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I think in today’s world, the community might be more understand of the students transferring. I also believe there would be some people who might still have concerns or implicit bias’s because there is always people who still have or believe in racist beliefs. I do believe it would be more acceptable today than it was back then though. I think there would be some institutional racism by the teachers, especially those who don’t approve of the transfer. I also think there would be color blindness racism by some teachers and they won’t realize that to the transfer students their race does matter and it’s not something to be overseen.

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a) As much as I would like to say my community at home would accept this, I don’t think the majority of people who live there would. A lot of low-income housing has been built surrounding my neighborhood at home and even with just that, a lot of people have been complaining about “the type of people” that would attract and have made comments about the schools “getting ruined.” I’ve already heard upsettting comments like this just about housing, so sadly I don’t think my home community would support this.

b) I do think that in my home community this would cause some sort of similar town meeting where people would express either color blind or aversively racist ideas. As I said, people have already made aversive comments about housing and worried about schools, so I think that if that were to actually materialize the town hall would be similar to that of the podcast

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a) I think that my community would support this because my community is a fairly liberal area unlike the one in the documentary. Since it’s more about the kids gaining a better education than anything else.

b) If there was backlash I would think it would be an issue of contemporary racism and it would be more subtle. This situation is sort of similar to what the case is for my school district, as we had kids bussed in from the city to attend my school. I think there would be some uproar but it wouldn’t be as public as the story we heard, and instead would be subtle remarks.

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Yes, they would support the decision to transfer these students, but there would definitely be some unintentionally racist concerns from some parents.

I think there would be examples of aversive and colorblind racism, people who have values of equity but in situations like this may display some racist qualities. I would hope in my town there would not be examples of institutional or systemic racism.

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No I don’t think my district would not respond well to these students being integrated. I think that there would be a lot of aversive racism because parents and members of the district do not want to seem racist but would be concerned with similar things the parents in Missouri were concerned with. They would bring up test scores and violence concerns while claiming that it was not a race issue, however it is.

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I think that the community would support it because although racism still exists today, I feel as people are more welcoming to combining and mixing different races and cultures in school districts.

I think there would be issues of color blind racism because not everyone would agree but people would try and want to be inclusive by making comments on how race shouldn’t matter in a school district.

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a) I think my community would because I grew up in a very diverse and inclusive environment. Therefore I feel like people would have an easier time being welcoming.

b) There might be some institutional racism with certain schools in my district that are more majority white. I would imagine some parents having similar worries to what the parents discussed in the town hall meeting for the Normandy situation.

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I live in a predominately white neighborhood and I unfortunately believe that most of the parents in my town would be very opposed to the idea of allowing these children to come into their child’s district. There would be issues of institutional racism because my specific school district would be providing racially inequitable outcomes for those of color. This example shows all three of the patterns provided under institutional racism. There would also be aversive because the parents would justify it saying this has nothing to do with race but with the violence they would bring in and that they are just concerned for their child.

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The community surrounding this situation would probably have a similar reaction because the surrounding communities were also white. So they would not support integration

This was a systemic issue because it goes across different schools. People think they are not racist but them showing that's they don't want intergration is racist. This situation is not specific to just Normandy and Frances

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1) I feel that my community would 100% support this action. My community is pretty diverse and very exceptive. I don’t think people would think twice about Black or Latino students coming into our school.

2) I think there’s a chance that there would be. I feel that implicit bias happens everywhere and even though my community is acceptive, it is still something I think would happen.

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1. I think that my community would support this action as there are many people of different races throughout our school district and our community is diverse.

2. I think that there definitely would be people who fall for the types of racism as they don't support the action. They would claim it is not a race issue and an education one, however that wouldn't be true.

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I think that my school district is would support this action. I believe this because the school district is already very diverse and the parents would be welcoming to the students having a better opportunity for the best education possible.

I don’t think there would be any issues of institutional l, systemic/structural or contemporary racism because there’s been situations in the school where the parents could’ve showcased those types of racism and they didn’t, they allowed the school district to handle it.

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A. I would think that MY school district would have some very interesting school board meetings if this were to happen. My home area can be very conservative leaning and I think would have a lot of pushback, but also that the student body would be very open to it.

B. This is likely more modern racism because the population would argue against considering it racism like in the video, and say that the pushback comes from a place of concern.