Desegregation
After listening to the podcast about desegregation issues in the Normandy school district, my views on desegregation changed, and I found myself questioning a lot. Looking back, I realized that what I thought desegregation was, is actually very different from the truth. Like every other innocent child in second grade, I first learned about segregation and desegregation, especially in schools. Now obviously a second grade teacher can't scar their students by telling them about the obscenities, racial slurs, or violence that came along with desegregation. Call it my ignorance, or maybe just my fear of knowing the horrors that came with the truth, I never exposed myself to how desegregation had affected black students. I found it hard to sit through the podcast and listen to what students like Mah'Ria or Rihanna had to go through, especially the racial slurs that Rihanna was subjected to by another white student. I knew that white parents weren't in terms with de