Bright Future?

                As I read, I keep asking myself: Is our nation so bought into racism and class discrimination that it is willing to disregard an entire portion of our youth? The part that saddens me the most is that the answer to that question is yes. The children that grow up in neighborhoods are generally African American and Latino. Youth that grow up in cities like East St. Louis, and North Lawndale are trapped with these restrictions and realistically have no choice but to gradually lose hope. These kids’ passions and aspirations are lost to poverty due to the fact that their society has written them off. “The ones who move on to Advanced Home EC are given job instruction.”  “When I ask her what jobs they are trained for, she says: “Fast food places- Burger King, McDonalds.” (Kozol 27).  This is the future that the children of East St. Louis get to look forward to? It’s like hope is cut from their dictionary at birth. Too make it worse, if an African American tries to attend a “white school” they are called names and set apart from the rest of the school. By doing this, your consistently giving them a system to fail.