The Hechniger Report, August 24, 2017
The Southern Poverty Law Center called the Charlottesville rally “the largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades in the United States.” Protester Heather Heyer, was killed at the rally, others were hurt badly and two state troopers died in a helicopter crash.
As many of us question the reasons for this disturbing incident and our current era of separation, we ought to take a long look at how we allow our education system to instill various kinds of separation into children’s lives. The South was once known for legal segregation, then its schools became the country’s most racially diverse as the courts tried to erase Jim Crow. But for many children in the South and across the nation, this trend toward integration has reversed.