novapsyche | (no subject)

I benefited supremely from Brown v. Board of Education. My parents did, too (being as they were only 4 when the decision was handed down).

In my home township, I learned as I was growing up, the school district was split up into six different districts. I ended up less than a mile away from the Lincoln school district (which today is majority black) but was bussed 45 minutes out of my way to the Airport school district, which is majority white. I can only speculate how my life would have ended up if the district lines had been drawn just a bit differently.

Though my sister and brother also attended Airport, I was the only one of my family to attend college. I know we have family in the South who've graduated from college, so I'm not the first in that respect. But without the education I got at Airport, I don't think I would have been put on the college track. And I honestly think the quality of the education at Lincoln or Belleville falls short of what's offered in Carleton, Michigan.

So thank God for politics. Brown v. Board had a direct effect on my life even before I was born, and I can't adequately express my appreciation.