Your reference to history long gone is the problem. That history long gone prevented some of the brightest people of color from attending colleges that would have, when the whites pulled away from the public schools (not because they were violence or ANTI-Christian), would have left highly qualified teachers to teach the people of color now left in that system. I know this first hand. The white principal at my high school told my mother (who has 8 children) that none of her children would receive any scholarships to college. Guess what, he was right, those scholarship offers came into the high school office and were buried.
We found out years later after we had left for the military that these offers had came in. Oops, too late. That’s right, out of eight children, five served in the military and three retired from the military. All these children are under the age of fifty-five. How long ago has this history been gone? This makes me wonder, if the history long gone had not occurred, what would these children have become? How many more have similar stories?
I am not taking punches at “white folks” for sending their children to a Christian school or private school to get “a good education.” God bless you for having the resources or making the sacrifice to do so. But, it is no doubt that a school system was left and the resources (money and knowledge) that were there when white children occupied those buildings are no longer there. Why?
I work for a Fortune 500 company and see so many of these children from the Christian schools or private schools leaving high school and competing for the same jobs the children from the public schools are competing for. Why spend all that money for a good education and not go on to college? Something else is there beside the desire for a good education. Most of these schools have the same books, get out of school the same time and schedule the days off the same as the public schools. Something else is going on.
What happen when a girl in these Christian schools or private schools get pregnant or those boys cause problems in the school? They send them to these public schools. Why, if it’s so bad?
I am a Christian who teaches the Men Sunday school Class at my church, retired from the U.S. Navy; work as an Information Technology Specialist and still in my forty. My family has a long history of Christian service through that “history long gone”. My grandfather, father, three brothers, over twenty relatives are ministers, with numerous teachers, singers and musicians in this family.
When Christians or so called Christians quit running away from the problems of this world, and believing that we are right because it benefits our family members, this world will indeed become a better place. We say we follow the teaching of Jesus, but could you imagine if Jesus had looked at the violence of this world and decided to return to heaven without dying on the cross. We keep forgetting what Jesus said about the “Least of These”. Yes, my children are in public school, not because I can’t afford a private education, but someone has to try to make a different in the public system.
I was taught as a Christian to stand for what is right, no matter the consequences. My mother and father cared for over sixty foster children, white and black. I sent money home to help with the care of these children and some never left. We call them brothers now. My COLOR is clear.
