Donna Williams
SilenceDogood2010 asks you to please consider supporting my friend, Donna Williams, who is running for the Wake County School Board, District 6 here in North Carolina.
I have seen up close in the past few years Donnas’ effectiveness and leadership, as she has helped organize conservatives in Wake County to create positive election results. Donna brings passion to everything she pursues. She is a proven leader with the ability to work with people of diverse views and bring them together in agreement on a common goal. Once elected, she will make tremendous contributions to the Wake County School Board to continue the transformation of our schools into what they were meant to be: Efficient, effective, and excellent centers of education.
Please visit Donnas’ website: www.DonnaforSchoolBoard.com
She needs our support to win this MOST important election. Please give what you can of your time, treasure and talent. You can make a secure donation through the website, sign up to volunteer, request a yard sign, or host a meet and greet.
It takes a team to win an election. Our children and the future of our community are worth every ounce of what we can give. I hope that you will join me, in supporting Donna.
Thank you and God Bless.
Respectfully submitted by SilenceDogood2010 this Eighth Day of September in the Year of our Lord, Two Thousand Eleven.
The Wake County Board of Education is promoting a neighborhood school system. The idea is that children will go to schools within close proximity to their homes. On the surface this sounds well-intentioned and harmless, however it is a major step backward toward segregated schools.
These were supposed to become a thing of the past when the 1954 decision Brown v. Board of Education stated that “separate but equal” is not equal at all. If a black student cannot attend a school that a white student can, based on race, then how can their rights be the same? The decision that students cannot be denied access to school based solely on ethnicity overturned the 58 year old decision Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that had established that black and whites would attend separate schools. The idea had been that “separate but equal” schools were acceptable and just. Not only did this promote hatred–but because black people generally were economically depressed, their schools were not equal to white schools at all–they did not have the same resources.
Here is a map based on the year 2000 census showing the geographical and socio-economic segregation that had originally been in my paper, Residential Segregation in Durham County:
(source: http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2004/7066/fig2.jpg )
Unfortunately this map depicts a common theme, one that exists in Durham County, Wake County, and generally in any diverse county. Not only are people segregated geographically but black people are generally not as well off, socio-economically. Because school taxes are collected locally, neighbood schools are apt to not only be segregated schools but also “black” schools will generally have less resources and will not be equal to “white” schools.
John Tedesco, seemingly the media spokesperson, for the Wake County Board of Education promotes neighborhood schools. This does not violate the exact wording of Brown v. Board of Education, that there will not be segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race. However it clearly violates the spirit of the law because with the geographic segregation that exists and the coinciding socio-economic segregation, racial segregation and diminished resources are a natural by-product of their plan.
It amazes me that this is going on in this day and age, in the county next to mine. I am not a lawyer yet and do not understand the full implications of a supreme court ruling but this is something I thought would be illegal and not even entertainable. If you would like to voice your opinion to the Wake Board of Education it consists of Chris Malone, Carolyn Morrison, John Tedesco, Deborah Prickett, Kevin Hill, Keith Sutton, Anne Mclaurin, Chairman Ron Margiotta and Vice Chair Deborah Goldman. They can be emailed by clicking on their names.
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Otto Ladensack
The map I refer to above is here:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GqSqpyWPGfg/TZ_jDS14ZlI/AAAAAAAAApI/o-3pyIPgvcI/s640/DurhamDemographics.jpg