African Americans oppressed in US education system: Pundit
Press TV has interviewed Jesse Nevel, with the African People's Solidarity Committee from Tampa, Florida, and Lawrence J. Korb, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress from Washington, to discuss institutional racism and discrimination against African American students across the US.
Nevel says the situation of black students at the university campuses cannot be taken out of the context of “overall conditions of oppression and violence faced by the African population” within the United States.
According to conservative statistics, one African American is gunned down in the US by police officers or white vigilantes every 26 hours, he maintains, adding that over half of the people behind bars in the country are people of color.
The “education system is just another arena, in which the colonial terror and oppression of African people takes place,” the activist argues, noting that the country is built on “genocide and slavery.”
African Americans are moving towards “self-determination” and struggling for political and economic power in the US, Nevel states, adding that the black community is trying to end the terror inflicted upon the community.
Korb, for his part, opines that the United States “needs to be aware of the problem” at the university campuses in order to begin to deal with the situation. However, he adds the percentage of black students at the US colleges is on the “upswing” compared to decades ago.
The analyst also notes some African Americans have reached high-ranking positions in the society, but the trend should continue to be improved.
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