"This American Life" did a great episode this last week about CURRENT school segregation:

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http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/the-problem-we-all-live-with




They gave it the entire hour. The story was about Michael Brown's school and some children who went there and their struggles to get a decent education.

Very sad.

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1. Racism Is Still In America

Listening to that town hall meeting about integrating the white and black school districts was shocking. Anyone who has been shocked by President Obama's treatment as President should listen to that town hall and you will understand why he was treated so poorly. I am not in any way trying to blame President Obama. My point is that this country was not aware of how much racism still existed in this country. We think there is little to no racism in America because blacks and whites still mainly live in segregated communities. Force those communities to live together, or even to go to school together and you see the racism come out.

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2. This American Life is the best thing on NPR

My local station moved it to an inconvenient time, so I don't catch it as often as I'd like.

I can stream it of course, but somehow that doesn't always work out for me.

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3. It was great

My husband and I wondered why CNN can't do more stories like that instead of spending all of their time moderating between surrogates.

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4. I can't recommend this show enough! n/t

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5. Institutional racism is live and well

in America