Segregation of minorities, including African Americans, Hispanics, and the poor is a part of an ongoing “attack” on the United States public education that has failed to cease since 1954, says a black activist.
Abayomi Azikiwe, an editor at the Pan-African News Wire, made the comments Wednesday in regard to results of a study by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Tuesday.
According to the study, the number of schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 to 16 percent in the first half of 2010s.
The rise is reported despite the US Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision more than half a century ago.
“Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group…Any language in…