Discrimination is the season winter: it causes death, isolation, frigid feelings, and covers the earth with a blanket of white supremacy. White supremacists emerge themselves in an extreme ethnocentric view, which causes many disadvantages to all parties involved. These disadvantages motivate across all aspects of society: health care, labor, housing, education, and etc.
My education began in the Woodland Hills School District: a district created to combat the segregation between the former Rankin (predominantly black), Turtle Creek (predominantly white), and Churchill (predominantly white) and a few other school districts. The discrimination that created Woodland Hills School District has greatly influenced my life and the way I view society. My early schooling challenged the disadvantages created by discrimination. It created a learning environment where both blacks and whites viewed each other as equals. Racial tensions rarely surfaced because we were all united through the love of Woodland Hills: we were not white, black or other; we were Wolverines. There were many differences between individual wolverines and their upbringing due to the vast area covered by the school district, but this did not impede progress. Progress, education, and the appreciation of differences characterized my early schooling. The disadvantages created by segregated school districts was removed and then replaced with an educational environment that supported integration. That integration removed racial barriers and granted the same opportunities to all children and young adults involved in the school district. Children, young adults, teachers, and staff all profited from the racially diverse school district. Although things have changed with the times (loss of funds, charter schools, white flight), the school district I attended instilled and still instills equality as a value to be upheld and cherished by all students there. In closing, I am extremely thankful that I attended Woodland Hills School District; it made me the woman I am today. I have never learned to view anyone as different or wrong because of their race. My early schooling taught me to view everyone as the same and equal, regardless of race. I will forever be grateful to Woodland Hills for teaching me to admire differences rather than shun them. Woodland Hills School District is the season spring: it causes renewal of life, fresh attitudes, symphonic and spiritual senses, and illuminates the world in vibrant colors.
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