Nehisi Coates writes, The streets were not my only problem. If the streets shackled my right leg, the schools shackled my left. Fail to comprehend the streets and you gave up your body now. But fail to comprehend the schools and you gave up your body later. Suffered at the hands of both, but I resent the schools more… . The world had no time for the childhoods of Black boys and girls… . When our elders presented school to us, they did not present it as a place of high learning but as a means of escape from death and penal warehousing… . Schools did not reveal truths, they concealed them.
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