Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol, East St. Louis

This video is for a project I did with 3 other classmates for a course in my MA Education program. The project involved me acting as a photojournalist whose purpose was to expose to the public the failing education system of East St. Louis in the 1980's. Most the information was taken from Jonathan Kozol's book Savage Inequalities. Much of the information is outdated, but the themes are still very current as well as the themes in Stevie Wonder's "Big Brother".

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Savage
• Inequality
• Kozol
• East
• St.
• Louis
• Stevie
• Wonder
• Big
• Brother
• Isolation
• Racism
• Ghetto
• Education

[gswarner]

esl wouldnt be half so bad if if wasnt run by a bunch of corrupt bastards.

[fnulnuakas]

I agree. If you look at the Illinois

Department of Education website, it is apparent that money is being dumped into East St. Louis by the State and Federal goverment such that more money is available per student than in other districts with far superior rates of academic achievement.

[MrGrevy]

@flipadiddle Nothing racist or untrue in anything I said. Don't blame me because you are uninformed. You take the stance of not arguing because you are not able to. Acting as if it would be pointless to argue is a coward's way out. Silly, arrogant goofball.

[MrGrevy]

@jelfrank286 Yet the blacks commit the majority of crime.

[flipadiddle]

@MrGrevy wasn't stalking you, i just happened to notice as i watched several related videos. I

'm not bothering to actually engage you in argument, because there would be no point. your arguments are irrational. it's similar to the idea of trying to convince a religious person that god doesn't exist, using science. it's pointless, as the two parties would be arguing on two completely different planes. your irrational racism is hidden behind an extremely thin veil of pseudo-logic and rationality.

[MrGrevy]

@flipadiddle hey, cool! You're a stalker who cannot refute anything I say. You're awesome!

[flipadiddle]

@MrSimonGirty regardless of the statement about the eads bridge, it would be impossible to say that the decayed state of east st louis has nothing to do with racism, yes? surely you must concede that.

[flipadiddle]

@MrGrevy hey, cool! you're a dumbass who likes to post basically the same comment(s) on different videos. nice! you're awesome.

[1needzAname]

thumbs up if kipp sent you here for hw

[dragonben14]

i have to write a 7 min. essay over savage inqualities and this help a lot. its so sad how the kids in East St. Louis basically have no chance at an education.



[jelfrank286]

Good work. I live in NYC and teacher there since 1984. I am from St. Louis, my ex-wife did a social working stint at East St. Louis High. Everything Kozol and your presentation says about East St. Louis and it's relationship with St. Louis is true. St. Louis has more than its share of White bigots (not everyone of course, but way too many to count). I know I was raised with them. Much of the opposition to light rail in St. Louis was fear of integration it would facilitate.