Jonathan Kozol, in an interview with Campus Progress, touches on something I've been thinking a lot about:
Some young people will tentatively say to me, “well maybe I oughtta get involved.” Well I say, “You don't have any choice; you're involved already. Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start. If we did not have an apartheid school system in America, what is the chance you'd walk into this college so easily? It would have been a lot harder because there would have been a far larger applicant pool of highly capable minority kids to compete with you.
This week, I graduated from college. My diploma will come from UCLA, I will have been in-and-out within three years, and it never should've happened.
