In Today’s world, America has such a margin between lower class and upper class. Hannah Jones has a dilemma that is a very common problem in inner city areas. She is deciding where to send her daughter for school. There is the public school that is run down, and there is the other school that is all high tech and can be beneficial to anyone that attends it. Now the dilemma for Hannah Jones is that she wants to send her child to the high tech and updated school to make sure her future is successful. her problem is that there is no way she can afford this school even with financial aid. Now at these run down and segregated public schools there is a very small number of white students. 85 percent of these kids are black and 75 percent are Latino. these schools are less than 10 percent white. i have noticed this at my community partner, i have realized that there is barely 10–15 percent white kids and the rest of the children are Latino. the high percentage of Latinos at this school is related to the demographics. most white people that live in Marin are Caucasian and there income allows them to send them to more prestigious schools. in comparison to Hannah Jones, a lot of people in the Santa Venetia valley are relatively colored and are English learners. for example, there is one single white kid in my first period, and he seems to be ostracized from the rest of the group. the same with my second period, there are only two white girls, and they seem like they have a hard time fitting in mainly because of the language and color barrier.

I clicked on a report and it showed the extreme school segregation in the New York school system. It is important for Hannah Jones to include these facts in her paper because she needs facts to support her evidence and that t will make a more persuading topic that can influence many in not only the New York area, but all over the US. the articles that are provided are very informational and can change the views of many and how badly segregated schools still are. This isn’t the early 20th century, its the 21st, every school should completely integrated by now.

Once you dive into the African-American/Latino struggle or whatever you want to call it and you look past that, you realize that it’s not a colored people problem, it’s a human problem. We all can’t be at peace until we are all at peace. If there’s a piece of us suffering, then we are all suffering. That’s what it’s about.