Since the Columbine High School shooting nineteen years ago, there has been 270 shootings at schools, fifty mass murder attempts at schools and 141 killings committed by 96% white males.
Consider---
In the 1950's, the phenomenon called 'white flight' began in cities. By the late 1960's a significant exodus of white people from the inner cities to the suburbs was staggering. The attraction was three-fold: (1) fears that city property values would decline as blacks moved in, (2) lauded suburban schools and (3) socially embedded prejudices.
There was historical events tied to this 'white flight:' 1954- Brown v. Board of Education when The Supreme Court said school segregation is unconstitutional. 1971-Supreme Court gave its nod to busing students to achieve racial desegregation. Finally, school choice becomes a top issue with parents and many States begin giving financial vouchers to support families leaving public schools for private institutions.
Now, stop and consider the current educational landscape and embrace factors of school safety and learning. I believe we would all say that our childrens' safety is of utmost importance followed by good schools. Therefore, since affluent white suburban kids, who are more inclined to mental illness than poor inner city black kids, are more likely to steal the unlocked guns of parents and go into suburban school buildings and shoot people, we can conclude that the inner city schools are safer. Let's begin 'busing white kids' back into city schools for safety. We can then use the voucher money to improve the teaching and physical environment of the city schools. Dadgumit, I can see the inner city schools having better tennis and swim teams already. Folks, who 'woulda thunk' that one day 'white' kids would be safer attending inner city black schools?
While some folks are hell-bent to build a wall to prevent would be 'thugs' from entering our country and doing us harm, we have our own seemingly 'normal' white kids entering school buildings and killing their classmates. Let's take the Mexican-border wall money and secure our schools and protect our children.
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