By the time they are taking the ACT, that ship has sailed for most kids. What is lacking are the foundations laid in elementary school and middle schools.
I think no one would contest how very segregated Milwaukee is.
Yes, many cities remain segregated by neighborhood. I’m sure going into wealthier parts of the Charlottesville area would have been very different from what the guy was used to in very diverse places like DC or College Park (where he seems to have lived). If you go into wealthier areas in most places, you are possibly going to be looked at if you seem at all out of place -going door to door, sketchy behavior regardless of race or perceived class, etc. And women in particular need to be aware of their surroundings so not sure how the yoga pants reference helped his point. I don’t wear yoga pants or jog but I do pay attention to my surroundings when walking . He has given his side of the story and has gotten some publicity for it. @ucbalumnus, curious about your interest in starting this thread ? Have you spent significant time in Charlottesville ?
No, have not been to Charlottesville. But I found it odd that someone would call the police on him if they saw him farming or making a delivery of food from his farms.
The other aspect is, do black or other non-white students at UVA have to restrict their movements to some parts of town because they would be seen as “suspicious” by people who would call the police on them?
Milwaukee no worse than Richmond and Tidewater. At least I Milwaukee they have the option to attend any school in county or many privates. http://www.schoolchoicewi.org/ http://time.com/4744296/economic-segregation-cities-america/
Against my better judgement I’m going to throw my 2 cents in as the parent of a current UVA student who loves the city of Charlottesville. Because it is relevant to the discussion at hand I am a white person with black, Asian, and mixed race siblings. In other words I experience the world fully as a white person but my eyes might be a teeny tiny bit wider open than some white people.
The heart of C’ville (including UVA) is a bastion of liberalness surrounded by a sea of conservatism. Driving to and from C’ville prior to the election there were Trump signs everywhere, some of them are still up months later. Confederate flags are also not an unusual sight.
I think the point of the article is to challenge the white liberals of C’ville who according to my daughter can be a smug self righteous lot (something you can say about many people on either edge of the political spectrum). It seems to me that the author is saying to those people who rightly reacted in horror to what looked very much like a lynch mob that their counter protest feels a bit hollow when his experience is that these same people like the idea of blackness but not the reality of it.
This is a fair criticism of many majority white liberal communities and isn’t unique to C’ville.
The challenge is what do we about that, not just in C’ville but elsewhere in the country.
@barrons In Milwaukee what is the transportation situation regarding school choice? It seems unfair to me if the students at failing schools then have to figure out the logistics of getting to and from a farther away school. Why can’t their local school be good enough? This is probably a topic that would have its own thread.
Just a few days ago there was a poster asking about the racial situation for her at UVA. I wonder what she decided.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1992666-im-black-uva-or-william-and-mary.html#latest
Milwaukee is the third most racially segregated, relative to its population, among the cities listed at https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-diverse-cities-are-often-the-most-segregated/ (Richmond and Tidewater are not in the list). Of the cities listed, Chicago and Atlanta are the only two more racially segregated ones.
In many cities in the South, black and white people mix quite freely in the business district, and in essentially all stores and restaurants. Residential areas are much more segregated, though. And so are many churches. This isn’t segregation by law, though.
I see much more daily interaction between black and white southerners at work and other social settings than I’ve seen in the north. But there are the unspoken barriers in where people live and how they worship as Hunt suggests.
I concur. Much more common to see blacks in all parts of town shopping, working, and just interacting. I’d also bet but cant prov they are happier and feel more comfortable in the South today than in the North. As to schools in Milwaukee they also can choose from dozens of charter and religious schools closer to home.
http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2017/03/milwaukee-charter-schools-performed-better-than-public-schools-on-act-report-shows