>> SEGREGATION CONTINUES TO BE A
HUGE PROBLEM IN THE DEEP
SOUTH, AS A RESULT A U.S. CIRCUIT
JUDGE, OR DISTRICT JUDGE,
HAS RULED THAT A SPECIFIC SCHOOL
DISTRICT IN MISSISSIPPI HAS
TO DESEGREGATE AND COMBINE TWO
OF ITS 
HIGH SCHOOLS 
AND
MIDDLE SCHOOLS.
IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE AS THIS
CASE WAS BROUGHT TO THE JUDGE'S
ATTENTION, OF COURSE THERE WAS
TESTIMONY ON BOTH SIDES.
THOSE THAT WERE ADVOCATING FOR
DESEGREGATING THE SCHOOLS,
AND THOSE WHO TESTIFIED THAT THE
SYSTEM SHOULD STAY THE WAY
IT IS ARGUED THAT IF WE
DESEGREGATE WE ARE GOING TO
HAVE LESS WHITE STUDENTS
ENROLLING INTO THE SCHOOLS.
THE JUDGE SAID THERE WAS NOT
ENOUGH EVIDENCE PRESENTED
TO PROVE THAT WOULD BE THE CASE,
BUT I WOULD ARGUE THAT IT
WOULD BE SURPRISING IF THE
STUDENTS WERE ENROLLED IN
PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
>> IT'S A CURIOUS CASE TO MAKE FOR
HUMAN BEINGS AS THEY ARE.
WE SHOULDN'T DESEGREGATE SCHOOLS
BECAUSE IF YOU CLAIM THERE
IS RACISM THAT IS KEEPING THE
BLACK STUDENTS EXCLUSIVELY
AND ONE SCHOOL, WE WILL PROVE
THAT TO YOU BY SAYING THAT WHITE
STUDENTS ARE SO RACIST THAT IF
YOU PUT THEM TOGETHER WITH BLACK
STUDENTS THEY WOULD IMMEDIATELY
GO TO A WHITE SCHOOL.
>>IT'S INCREDIBLE THAT THEY WANT
TO KEEP THE SCHOOLS SEGREGATED
SO BADLY THAT THEY WILL CONFESS
THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE RACIST.
>> I KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT
WING IS GOING TO SAY.
THEY ARE GOING TO SAY THAT IS
NOT RACIST, THEY JUST WANT
TO GO TO A GOOD SCHOOL.
HOLD.
I GOT IT.
THERE ARE PLENTY OF PLACES
WHERE A LOT OF PEOPLE GO TO
PRIVATE SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY ARE
WORRIED ABOUT THE SHAPE
THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE IN.
NUMBER ONE, WE ARE NOT TALKING
ABOUT THOSE PLACES, WE ARE
TALKING ABOUT A PLACE WHERE THEY
HAVE PROVEN SEGREGATION.
AND THE COURT HAS RULED THAT
THEY ARE SEGREGATING THEM
ON PURPOSE, THAT IS NOT
ALLOWED, THAT IS ILLEGAL.
POINT NUMBER TWO IS WHAT IF
YOU THOUGHT THAT MAYBE YOU
SHOULD MAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
REALLY GOOD, EVEN IF THEY
ARE MAINLY SERVING BLACKS.
>>OH, MY GOD THAT IS CRAZY.
UNDERSTAND THAT IN A LOT OF
DIFFERENT COUNTIES IN THE
COUNTRY YOU WILL HAVE
SEGREGATION BY DEFAULT
BECAUSE OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS.
YOU WILL HAVE NEIGHBORHOODS OF
WHITE INDIVIDUALS WHO WILL
SEND THEIR STUDENTS TO
THEIR LOCAL SCHOOL.
THESE ARE USUALLY WEALTHIER
NEIGHBORHOODS.
THEN YOU HAVE DISADVANTAGED
NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE
PREDOMINANTLY MINORITY'S.
BY DEFAULT THEY END UP
GOING TO THOSE SCHOOLS.
WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IS A
REFLECTION ON WHAT IS
HAPPENING IN THESE DISTRICTS.
ASIDE FROM THE SEPARATION OF
RACES THAT COMES FROM THIS,
THERE IS ALSO A LACK OF
UNDERSTANDING THAT COMES
FROM THIS.
IF YOU ARE NOT IN A SCHOOL THAT
HAS DIFFERENT CULTURES AND
EXPERIENCES, YOU HAVE A
HARDER TIME GROWING UP AND
UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE OTHER THAN
THOSE THAT ARE IN YOUR OWN
BUBBLE.
>> WHEN I GREW UP IN NEW JERSEY
I WENT TO A SCHOOL THAT WAS
UPPER MIDDLE MIDDLE CLASS.
WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
HAD LIGHTS IN OUR STADIUM
SO WE COULD PLAY FOOTBALL ON
FRIDAY NIGHT AND FEEL COOL.
WE WOULD GO TO ANOTHER HIGH
SCHOOL AND THEY WOULD PLAY
ON A DIRT FIELD.
THEN I TALKED TO OTHER KIDS ñ
THEN I MOVED TO PHILLY, AND
DC, IT FINDS OUT THAT KIDS
DON'T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH BOOKS TO
TAKE HOME TO BE ABLE TO STUDY.
HOW ARE THEY GOING TO BE ABLE TO
STUDY AND PULL THEMSELVES
UP BY THE BOOTSTRAPS IF THEY
CAN'T TAKE THE BOOKS HOME?
BUT IF YOU SAID EAST BRUNSWICK,
WHY DON'T YOU SHARE
RESOURCES WITH OTHER CITIES AND
COUNTIES IN NEW JERSEY SO
THAT THE OTHER SCHOOL CAN
HAVE BOOKS TO TAKE HOME?
IT WOULD'VE BEEN AN OUTRAGED.
THAT IS WHY I NOW LOVE
FINLAND SCHOOL SYSTEM.
PART OF THE REASON THEY DO THAT
IS BECAUSE THEY SAY WE ARE
ALL IN IT TOGETHER.
YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS RICH
KIDS ARE GOING TO THE SAME
SCHOOL AS POOR KIDS?
THE RICH PARENTS MAKE SURE THAT
THOSE SCHOOLS ARE FANTASTIC.
THEY ARE NOT GOING TO LET THEIR
KIDS GO TO BAD SCHOOLS.
THAT IS OUR REALITY.
RICH KIDS GO TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS,
AND THEY LEAVE EVERYONE
ELSE TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES.
>>
ONE THING I ALSO WANT TO BRING
UP IS EVEN THOUGH IN SOME
PLACES SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
MIGHT PLAY A ROLE,
SOMETIMES IT IS JUST RACISM IN
CERTAIN PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
AND WILCOX, GEORGIA THERE ARE
HIGH SCHOOLS THAT DID NOT
HOST THEIR OWN PROBLEMS.
THE ALLOWED PRIVATE
PROMS TO GET HOSTED.
THEY WOULD DO A WHITE
PROM AND A BLACK PROM.
THEY WOULD LITERALLY CALL IT
THAT DOT IN 2014,
WILCOX COUNTY FINALLY HOSTED A
PROM FOR ITS HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS AND IT WAS INTEGRATED.
THE ONLY REASON THEY DID IT IS
BECAUSE THE STUDENTS FOUGHT
FOR IT.
THIS TYPE OF SEGREGATION STILL
HAPPENS IN THE COUNTRY.
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE
IT, BUT IT IS.
>> THIS IS NOT FROM THE 1960S,
THIS IS TODAY.
REMEMBER WHERE SANDRA BLAND
GOT PULLED OVER IN TEXAS?
IN THAT CITY, THEY STILL DON'T
LET BLACK PEOPLE BE BURIED
IN THE SAME CEMETERY
AS WHITE PEOPLE.
A JUDGE HAD TO MAKE A RULING ON
IT RECENTLY TO SAY IT IS
OKAY TO BURY WHITE PEOPLE
NEXT TO BLACK PEOPLE.
THAT IS STILL HAPPENING TODAY IN
AMERICA.
RACISM STILL EXISTS.
