Education is one of the major pillars of systemic racism. In 2016, predominately non-white schools received $23 billion less than white schools, and we know that money drives opportunity. Since public schools mainly get their funding from property taxes, discrepancies in wealth factor heavily into these financial disparities. In this episode we talk about the legacy of Brown vs Board of Education and how it was nearly undone by the 1974 decision Miliken vs Bradley. From Honors and AP classes that can serve as the "white track" within otherwise diverse schools to the funny looks that Essence gets when older folks learn she is a graduate of Johns Hopkins, we explore the difference between equity and equality and how the education system is so inextricably intertwined with other systems of institutional racism that it feels nearly impossible to solve the problem. We also give a nod to the Serial Productions podcast Nice White Parents that brutally showcases the fact that, if you want something to change in the education system, it has to come from the white parents.
