with a narrative that s post racial or race is pass a, you have to you have to keep on avoiding thinking about the school to prison pipe line, so there are all these ways where you re avoiding the present in order to somehow imagine a racial inequality that has yet to be achieved or yet to be fulfilled. there s a disproportionate emphasis on those individuals who have achieved mass success. so whether it s obama or whether it s oprah michael jordan. right. so that they become only symbols of black exceptionalism but also they become the only image of blackness that gets perpetuated or used against which all other african-americans are seen. so it s a very slippery slope, all to do in the service of avoiding racial inequality. so the millennials i think it s not just with race, it s with gender i think as well. but to create this utopic
i drilled down on his schools own rules which don t provide for suspensions in two of the three situations that are current for him. i theink he s an example. he has come to represent so much also representative of this startling trend. i want to turn to you for policy angle. secretary duncan and eric holder have been doing a lot to emphasize the so-called school to prison pipe line. one of the proposals for ameal yor ating that is decrcreating t of guidelines so kids aren t just expelled ash trarly, do you see that happening? i hope so. it s a lot more than just a federal, you know, policy to try to deal with this issue at a national level. this boils down to what lisa was saying, it s at the local level. you need governors and state legislators and school boards to
wrapped into this next jobs bill and we will pay for it all together. specifically whether it comes to family, legs lee than mark. committed to ending the cradle to prison pipe line and channelling a cradle to college and career pathway by establishing opportunity, access academies on and around, the academies will target african-american boys and get them into tenth grade and through 12th grade and into college. something happens between the classroom and getting home. over the next 12 months and what do you need to get it done? in the next 12 months trying to do ten pilots. call first or e-mail www.nafeo.org and help me to talk to chairman miller in the united states congress in the elementary and secondary