[Marxism] Unlearning Racism in Newark in the '60's

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

July 22, 2007
Unlearning Racism in Newark in the '60s

Posted by Napolitana-Piemontese

[This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the Newark Rebellion, one  
of the most powerful of the so-called "riots" that shook cities  
across the US that summer. My friend Joy has written up this  
recollection of being a white girl in the Newark public schools  
during the Sixties.

Set four years before the actual rebellion, this story highlights  
some of the conditions that led up to it: white flight and the  
conscious abandonment of the school system in Newark by the local and  
state power structure as the student body became Black. It also  
reminds us that decades of students since then have suffered from  
this same educational abandonment and been made to feel unworthy in  
the same ways Joy's memoir details.

It is also the moving story of one thirteen-year-old white girl  
suddenly becoming aware of how white people make Black people  
invisible. I gladly take this opportunity to plug Chip Smith's  
splendid new book, The Cost of Privilege, which sets this phenomenon  
in a social and historical context--it's a must-read for anyone  
seeking to break down the system of white supremacy in this country.  
--Napolitana Piemontese]


Full: http://firemtn.blogspot.com/2007/07/unlearning-racism-in-newark- 
in-60s.html
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