This goes all the way back to Brown vs Board of Education. A case that had to be fought in court, presided over by white men, and a congress full of white men, who still supported many aspects of segregation. These are people who for Centuries never wanted anything to be equal when it comes to black people and they did not give a damn about poor white people.
If we had more Presidents like LBJ we would never have dove into the continuing "inequity" within the public schools system. It likely won't get fixed until there is less white people dominating congress and congress become more diverse in the House and the Senate, especially within the Republican Sector, and Diversity must expand more into the Democratic Sector of Congress.
As long was we have white male dominated congress, we will have more screwed up things and more inequity, that disadvantages people based on money, and skin .... what does that mean? It means poor whites will get the short end of the stick, and blacks and other non whites will get an even shorter end of the stick.
Every mess in every system within America's Government and Public Systems has been screwed up by "white people and their prejudices, their biases and their discriminating acts. The same is true in the Economic Sectors of American Society. White people try to deny it, because they can't stand the fact that anyone calls them out on the long history and ongoing messes they make, when they continue to fill the seats that make major decisions that impact all of society.
History has shown there are certain types of white people, who cannot be trusted to do thing fair and with principles of equality. most of them sit and reside within the Conservative Republican and Right Wing Ranks.
It's taken many decades for the more Liberal white people to stand up with voice, and some still waver and flip flop and get caught up in Right Wing Conservative Narratives, and become either reluctant or afraid to call of these white people, who fill the ranks of Conservative Republicanism. They have been taught in many ways to never criticize white people, as if they are afraid it may be interperted as including "all white people"... Which is does not. It's about a certain segment of white people, and most know that segment is composed of Conservative, Right Wingers who fall in the groups of Right Leaning Political Labels they hide under.
In this 21st Century more and more of the younger people who live outside of these Right Wing Conservative Containment Zones, don't buy into the Right Wing Conservative Dogma. The white people have been liberal even when they were afraid to speak up, have not stopped being liberal, they now don't have to fear so much about speaking out.
A big problem is the media continues to feed society Right Wing Narratives, because the ignorance of those narratives promote drama antics, and the media loves drama because people get hooked into it and the network can sell more commercials advertisement, so they chase down every stupid thing that Right Wingers and Republicans say and do.
The Media needs to change, and start creating narrative that deal with the positive things that Liberal are doing, the positive things that people create and develop and the good things people do in their communities and in their states and get away from being wrapped up, trying to debunk some stupidity that is so stupidity that its a waste of time to get caught up in it.
With the level of willful ignorance that been exposed within the internet, its should not even be a question, that more money needs to be put into education, and every public schools needs to be made into the best education system in this nation.
