The Yelleti Times

Part One of the “This American Life” podcast on the segregation and integration timeline on the Normandy and Francis Howell schools shows how the government fails to take action on serious topics. I can only imagine what Mah’Ria, Rihanna, and other black children who wished to get a good education went through. It shocks me how although the correct moral choice to allow black students from Normandy to attend Francis Howell is obvious, but barely any action was taking place. Although white families (especially parents) were being extremely rude and immoral and had deteriorated and immoral ideas about the situation, the government is truly at fault. Desegregation is not something people have to fight for. It is something that should already be a way of living. According to the podcast, 1 out of 2 blacks kids lived in a district where they were “stripped of full accreditation” while only 1 out of 25 white kids were living under these circumstances. This truly emphasizes the academic segre...

  This week has been, to say the least, insane. 4 precious, innocent lives were lost, the root cause being the lack of gun reform. Students across the state of Michigan are fearful of attending school, unsure of whom to trust and how to protect themselves and each other. Why is it that a tragedy must occur for people to start devoting their time and attention to an important cause that has been repeatedly occurring for decades? And still, why is it that after a short time, talk of a certain tragedy loses people’s interest? In “A Raisin in the Sun”, Walter tells Ruth about his idea of opening a liquor store, which will help their financial status. However, Ruth is very unsupportive of this. Walter is upset and says that she is “moaning and groaning all the time, but you wouldn’t do nothing to help, would you? You couldn’t be on my side that long for nothing, could you?” This makes me think about how school shootings have been constantly happening around the United States (and specif...