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Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers original posts. Please keep in mind that this assignment can be a sensitive subject and that people’s past experiences may have shaped their views. Choose one point from your peer’s post that made an impact on you and explain why this particular comment resonated with you. Share your thoughts on the disadvantages and advantages of segregation with your peers.

BY:Tiffany Bradley

When preparing for this week’s discussion post I was a little at awe, I personally had never heard of the little rock nine. And I’m not that far from Arkansas.  The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students that were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. However, their enrollment was engaged by the Little Rock Crisis. Which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower done an intervention, the students were then allowed to attend the school. The nine students were Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrance Roberts, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine)

                Personally, if I was in the situation that these nine students experienced I would have been lost, afraid, and felt like something was wrong with me. A child of any race should not have to be put in this situation to feel unwanted or that they are unwelcome because they are of a different color. Many times however that is not the case. And this was the case for these nine children. My reaction would have been a sense of sadness, and anger. I don’t believe I would not have made a seen, simply out of fear of being hurt. I would have wanted to stand up for myself as well as my peers of the same color. Nowadays, if the situation would arise that an African American child was not allowed into a while school, yes I would stand up. And voice my opinion. It should not matter the color of a child’s skin. They should be allowed to receive the proper education. Without first having to go through turmoil. This situation I’m sure was emotionally devastating for these nine children. Who simply just wanted to get an education. (Webb. L. D. (2014).  History of American education: Voices and perspectives. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.)

                De facto segregation, I believe does not have a detrimental effect on students nowadays. Some adults that were raised to racial, still are. But if children are taught not to be that way. Then most of the time children learn to except another student of a different minority. Where I live we have a lot of white and minority students. Which none are treated differently. They are all in school for the same reason to get an education. My own personal beliefs are we are all children of God, and just because we are different races, does not mean we all aren’t the same. We all have ten fingers, ten toes, etc. I don’t want my son to grow up thinking that a child of a different color isn’t worthy of friendship or anything else. It is all in how a person is raised, and how the parents present the situation to their child. The only detrimental effect it would have is if the student is from a very racial family. And begins to bully the child of minority. Or vise verse. I think if we all learnt to get along and work together. The world would be a much happier place.

References:

Webb. L. D. (2014).  History of American education: Voices and perspectives. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine)

BY: Ronald Taylor Jr.

 “Three years after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, which officially ended public-school segregation, a federal court ordered Little Rock to comply.” The Little Rock Nine which was led by Daisy Bates who was a newspaper columnist and NAACP and she was the only Air pilot. She created the idea to desegregate the school of Little rock high school and she picked nine African American students to enter the school. Elizabeth Echford, Carlotta Wall, Ernest Green, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Beals, and Jefferson Thomas. These students marched on September 4^th, 1957 but were met with protestors and Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus sent the national guard to stop the nine students as well. On the 12^th President Eisenhow ordered the governor to move his troops but the governor refused so the president had them removed himself. It took three weeks but on the 25^th of September the nine students finally entered the school.

                When looking at the picture of the students of the little rock nine and thinking about how I would react to the change of going to a school where 90 percent if not more hate or have a distaste for me would be difficult. I would try to stick to doing what I am supposed to do by staying out of trouble and getting an education. With protestors spitting and doing horrid things I might have had a hard time with but I have a patient characteristic so I would continue on and keep to myself. I would definitely be able to continue to follow through going to the school because I would feel like I am helping to make change for African Americans and all people to be more equal. I am not sure that I would fully understand the magnitude of my bravery because I would be to caught in the moment of wanting to feel safe to get anything else started in my head. As an African American I am surrounded by family and friends that have and still to this day will stand up for what is right even with the risks. If you’re not willing to take risks, then you will never make any gains.

                When it comes to de facto segregation I would say that I think that it is detrimental to students because it doesn’t allow students to get to know other cultures and we are surrounded by a world that is diverse. I think it also makes the social atmosphere uncomfortable when you enter around what you’re not familiar with those around you. I also think that it can lead to certain stereotypes that are created because the lack of understanding another culture or ideology. I Can also see the positive in it as well because it does give you a sense of belonging and comfort and it also is a good thing to be able to relate to people who understand your background. Unfortunately, in my opinion the only reason we have de facto segregation is because of economic circumstances and usually sides with the high and low of society.

References

We Shall Overcome -- Little Rock Central High School. (n.d.). Retrieved from

https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ak1.htm