Your Voice Matters: Injustices Being Unsilenced from an Educators Perspective

There has been a long history of urban public schools failing their students time and time again. As an educator, I would be misleading any person who read my blog if I just blamed the urban schools who provide the education for urban children. It is a lot more complex and deeper than just that. Instead, we have to consider politics, systems, government, funding, and the list goes on and on as to why Black and Brown children have been let down for a very long time. When you read this blog, I want you to think of America, and how we have heard time and time again that the American belief that our founding fathers harped on is "liberty and justice for all", but is there really any liberty and justice when it comes to this broken education system for urban children? I would definitely argue no. This is why the Charter School Movement has become so prevalent over the years, because it is supposed to be an alternative to the horrible public schools that are planted in poor neighbo

 As a Black woman in today's society, I am more than aware that the fight for racial justice is far from gone. Not only do I live it everyday because of the color of my skin, but the media is flooded with gruesome images of modern day slavery still showing its ugly face. This fight is nowhere near done, and I would even go further by saying it is just truly beginning due to technology and social media showing the same injustices that have been going on for decades. The only difference now is simply that social media and technology has just given it a platform for the entire world to see. The raw truth is simply that White people can no longer turn a blind eye to it, because well it is right in their face now.  When I look in the mirror at myself, I see more than a Black women in today's society. I also see a Black educator who must not stay silent about the past trauma that my Black brothers and sisters faced. Many White people would make the argument that "I wasn't a