I think we do; we just go about trying to achieve it in the wrong ways and methods. However, views on integration in America have drastically changed in the last fifty years. As supported in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey believed that blacks should return to their native homeland of Africa. The acts of violence committed unto the African Americans at the time only made his claim more strong and reasonable. While most people were ready to jump on the Black Star Line, people like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. tried to teach whites the meaning of civilization.
Here at Whitney Young, since there is a wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, I feel that we may have a different view of integration than students from a school that is mostly black, white, hispanic, or asian. Students at Whitney Young experience both multi-ethnical situations at school at possibly single-ethnical sitations at home and in their neightborhoods. Because of this, we get two different viewpoints of how people in different public environments interact with each other.
Here at Whitney Young, since there is a wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, I feel that we may have a different view of integration than students from a school that is mostly black, white, hispanic, or asian. Students at Whitney Young experience both multi-ethnical situations at school at possibly single-ethnical sitations at home and in their neightborhoods. Because of this, we get two different viewpoints of how people in different public environments interact with each other.
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