I initially had no clue what I wanted to write about for this last blog post. However, upon some reflection, I realized that I wanted to bring some of this course’s concepts full circle.
Coming from a small town in Maine, and a roughly 700 student high school, there was very little (depressingly little) diversity within the student body. There were maybe four Asian and black students within the whole school. On an even worse note, some students would drive to school with a Confederate Flag flying on the back of their pickup truck, which I just never understood because we lived in Maine… While racism was never a huge problem at my high school, actions like flying the Confederate Flag sent a strong message to white and black people alike. Unfortunately, this was never addressed by administration so it kept happening.
While this is a short blog post, I thought it just to at least briefly think about the fact that people in the most northern state of the US fly the Confederate Flag to school. It sends a strong message that, although this country has come a long way towards “fixing” racism, we still have such a long way to go.