School Bonds

Kudos to the NAACP and the African American Caucus for standing up for the children of Forsyth County, and not bowing down before defacto segregation or the contracting companies that plan to make their income off the backs of our children through the new construction and painting contracts that will surely come out of this school bond.
Education lost in this election, but not the integrity of this civil rights organization that has served over eighty years as the consciousness of America, consistently keeping us from loosing our focus on the human issue and not on tradition or convenience. Nor did the neophytic political organization (AAC) loose its focus for the African American community.
As with the previous school bonds we will begin to see the dwindling and consequentially the disappearance of schools in the inner city and those that remain will become poorer and browner. With the graduation rate of less than 60% for African American students in our county, the focus was most absurdly in the wrong place, as education and not buildings must be the priority of this school system.
We can continue to run from each other, but eventually, there will be no where left to run. Our children must learn, grow and mature in a multicolor multicultural world because that is the world in which they will live!!
The Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education got it right when it stated “separate but equal is inherently unequal.” Housing patterns were just as racially and economically skewed in the 1950’s as they are today and this statement will stand the test of time.
Submitted by Chenita Johnson
Precinct Chair Hanes-Lowrance
2411 N. Patterson Avenue
(336) 725-6203