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?

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?

(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.

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”

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.