Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.
In 2011, 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy and those with a college degree or a high paying job were not immune.
“Bankruptcy is technically the point when you owe more than you own and most people hit that point a year or two earlier but they didn’t want to give up,” says Leslie E. Linfield, Executive Director of the Institute for Financial Literacy, a nonprofit financial education, and counseling organization. “They didn’t want to financially die.”
As we come to the close of black history month, I thought it fitting to write about the subject we are all so comfortable talking about: institutionalized racism and the disparities in educational achievement it, too often, breeds.
Institutionalized racism is so prevalent and entrenched — even invisible in many ways — in this country that it seems normal to many. Practices in the educational system are merely a microcosm of it in action.
