By Alonzo Weston.
With the number of racial incidents playing out in schools across the nation, why are we seeing more of these incidents among young people now?
Minority students at a University campus in Oberlin Ohio, were recently greeted with hate posters targeting blacks, Jews, and gays.
A minority student attending Binghampton University in Binghampton New York was taunted by verbal racial slurs.
A group of students attending Townson University in Maryland formed a White Student Union.
Yes, this in the age of the so-called post-racial society, a society supposedly created with Barack Obama’s presidential election five years ago.
But it appears that the election of our nation’s first black or bi-racial president has stirred racial hatred in some quarters not seen since the turbulent 1960s.
However, unlike the 1960s the racism doesn’t come just from elderly white males. Today, youths are showing their views on race and more than a few are anything but racially harmonious.
Inae Piercy, founder of Soundview School, an International Baccalaureate school in Lynnwood Washington believes the problem lies in too much talk about diversity. She suggests schools and society as a whole should talk more about the human commonality instead.
“In my opinion, in order for the students to understand the different ethnic groups, starting from Kindergarten to all the way till the 12th grade, the curriculum must teach the kids about the history of human migrations and human commonality,” Piercy says.
She said the focus should be on who we are as humans, our rights, and responsibilities, and how we share this earth together.
School with African American, Asian, and other minority exclusive clubs only amplifies the racial differences. Not only that, Piercy sees a society divided by not just along racial lines but politics, religion, and economics as well.
“The racisms are everywhere in our society, in schools, workplaces, religious organizations. With more broken homes, media violence, terrorism, war, and our hatred towards certain people, groups justify the students’ hatred toward the different ethnic groups or groups,” she says.
Why are we seeing more racial incidents in schools?
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