BLOG POST 4

Michael Hollins

Institutional Racism

            Let’s first state that institutional racism isn’t attended but it happens and that is the reality of it. I even noticed it at the elementary school we were at in Shaker. The kids have resource after resource. For example I have been in Maple elementary schools in comparison to Shaker elementary schools they are able to get on computers and do assignments at Maple we did not have that. The kids have to learn Chinese at Mercer elementary. To even have someone there teaching them another language is amazing. Another thing in Ohio they are rebuilding schools. Ours were just rebuilt last year. I know schools in suburbs that been built for years. How do you expect a kid that doesn’t have the resources to have a chance in society with the person who have everything at their finger-tip? I know the money from your property taxes goes back into the school system but if our properties are abandoned and we don’t have the funds to give back are we not supposed to have a chance. I remember when I was in high school we had class sets of books. That means if you need a book for an assignment outside of class you were out of luck. How do you compete with the Solon’s, Shaker’s, Twinsburg’s in state that are able to have more than one set of books? Now let’s just think about this those are great neighborhoods. The question is “why” are those suburbs good suburbs? To answer that is simple they graduate move back into their community because it is a nice place to raise a family. If we luck up and get out the city we move to where the so called “good” neighborhoods are put money into those school systems and they continue to grow and we continue to sink.