American Apartheid

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/allison-kilkenny/33902/american-apartheid

Even though American schools were desegregated following Brown v. Board doesn’t mean there isn’t still widespread apartheid cloaked in classicism, though its roots are still racial.

An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live. Kelly Williams-Bolar was sentenced by Judge Patricia Cosgrove on Tuesday and will begin serving her sentence immediately.

The jury deliberated for seven hours and the courtroom was packed as the sentence was handed down. She was convicted on two counts of tampering with court records after registering her two girls as living with Williams Bolar's father when they actually lived with her. The family lived in the housing projects in Akron, Ohio, and the father's address was in nearby Copley Township.

Williams-Bolar is poor, black, and she was attempting to send her children to a better school outside of the district where they live. It’s not as though she resided near a great school, and chose to forgo that option out of some kind of stubbornness or hatred for the law. Quite literally, if she wanted to send her kids to a good school, she had no other options available. It was stay trapped, or escape, and she chose to escape.

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