Studies have been made upon the history of suspensions on different races of middle school children. The data of these suspension rates were broken down by race and taken from 18 urban districts. The black children have the highest suspension rates throughout the years from 1973 to 2006. Due to history, most likely these rates are increasing. Asians were shown to have less rates than whites in these districts. Hispanic and American Indian middle school students had higher rates than whites. The districts are claiming that they are using many strategies to decrease suspensions. I believe that they can't conquer this issue with a couple strategies that they thought out themselves. This is a historical issue that may take years to figure out. Prior generations mark the next generations before these districts and programs can get to them.This article shows how our black children are starting out early on a bad note. Other races will see this as a beginning of black children being incarcerated in the future and they will begin to familiarize themselves with seeing this from day to day. In my opinion, the high rates of suspension of our black children are giving an upper hand to other races to look down upon them. Our black children should be equal with other children of different races. Relating to Obama's book and speech, Obama's main goal is for us as U.S citizens of different races to come together as one in equality. He doesn't want us to bring down another race but lift each other up with encouragement to set examples for our future.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/education/14suspend.html?_r=1&ref=us
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