Victims Without "Crimes" : Black Americans
In this article, the reader is given insight into the educational and vocational struggles Black Americans have endured. Being born Black in the United States comes with a stigma, a label if you will, the label of being a failure. Failure is defined simply as the inability to perform. By this definition, Black Americans were incorrectly labeled, in that they were not even given the opportunity to fail. It rather was presumed that Black Americans were inferior to Whites. As Black Americans moved into northern cities, educators were empowered to make classifications of the students. Tests were given that were racially biased, giving white students better chances to do well. These tests helped to sort the students and prepare them to "fit" into the existing social order. Since blacks were viewed in the same light as crime, prostitution, and disease, they were usually discarded and given up on when it came to education. Did the promise of an education extend to blacks? It did not appear so. Reforms were needed in education. Blacks and whites alike began to recognize that a black child needed an education in order to be successful in his or her future vocation, or did they? Education didn't seem to matter to the Bl
There was a common belief among superintendents, typically male, that teachers should be subordinate. Docile rather than questioning, perceptive of feelings, content with subordination. Subsequently, the most educated blacks were still only being offered jobs at the lowest pay, usually in the service industry. It begins by explaining that in the nineteenth century teachers had minimal formal schooling. It seemed like a waste of time to spend time trying to succeed in school when the level of education you achieved had no correlation on your future job. Good paying prestigious jobs were reserved for whites even when a more qualified black applicant was present. They must be managed, the many following the few. "If teachers have advice to give their superior, it is to be given as the good daughter talks with the father. acks going to school because the White employers wouldn't hire them before whites, Unions discriminated against blacks as well. Finally, the fact that even those Blacks, with higher levels of education were not given better jobs, due to discrimination on the part of white employers is reason enough to agree with the article. " said the Denver Superintendent of Schools. It doesn't matter what gender you are. When Blacks were emancipated, they were not given an equal opportunity to an education. When they were enslaved they had no rights. Most only had completed grammar school and typically, the "cream of the crop" teachers finished high school , at best.
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