The Connection Education and the Inequality Pipeline

"The entire country profits from Black success but we prevent it because we are scared of fixing the inequality because white people might cry." Schools across the nation spend less money educating low-income students who are disproportionately Black and Latino yet we preach education is key. When will America finally start addressing its poor education system? Michael Harriot explores the school-to-poverty pipeline. theGrio Daily is an original podcast by theGrio Black Podcast Network. #BlackCultureAmplified 

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[marshcreek]

Michael, very powerful. Truth telling at its finest. The reality presented breaks my heart. A continued thanks for laying out the facts and data, whether convenient or inconvenient. I don't always agree with you, but at least you're saying it. I attended all black schools until age 15 when the schools in my part of Virginia were desegregated in 1964. My parents' greatest concern was "Those white teachers won't care about our black kids." I wound up having a handful of really good white teachers who cared, but most weren't built for the new reality they were in. They were just participants in the larger system and trying to make it. The library was abundant, and the facilities and resources were top notch, but I missed the consistent caring of all the black teachers that I had from elementary school through to the ninth grade. Although with your hard-hitting truths, you may not get a consistent gig with the MSM, keep telling your truths. We need them.

[sarabeever]

Home-school is a 100% choice. The children will truly receive Black History facts in detail. They will learn at an excellerated rate.

[RonnyThomas-xu]

Wonderful podcast I love it full of information and knowledge thank you

[carolynforge]

"If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south."

Malcolm X

[andreawilliams]

Thank you, and I will share with my family and friends on Facebook.

[twilajohnson]

One of the reasons why desegregation did a disservice to the Black community. We had our own before disaggregation. Black teachers, Black, owned stores, Black owned theaters, and everything else. Yt folks like to do things that look fair, and seem fair, and sound fair, but are not fair and are completely unequal. But we keep falling for it.

[williamhaines]

Property taxes are not the best way to fund education

[EricBarnaby-hf]

Genuine question, maybe someone can answer this for me… why is it that immigrants from China and Vietnam as well as Jewish immigrants are statistically doing better than African Americans?

Further, why are RECENT immigrants from West Africa statistically more successful than African Americans who have ancestors that have long been in the USA?

By more successful I am referring to household income levels, incarceration rate, college and high school graduation rates, household wealth, etc.

[avdmustang]

Funding won't change a thing, nature and nurture are inescapable facts that most people refuse to accept.

[allainefoster]

I have $10/mth to help fund predominantly Black schools nationwide Michael. Get it together. Let's stop talking about and do something. I also have time to give as needed.