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“I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.”

Jonathan Kozol · Christmas

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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

Knowledge

Jonathan Kozol

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

Education

Jonathan Kozol

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

Government

Jonathan Kozol

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.

Money