isolation and self-segregation (thur)

There was a lot of stuff to unpack in chapter 5-6 but the things that stick out to me are the ideas of self-segregation and isolation. When you are presented with the idea of being one out of many being the person that is different it does isolate you even if people are trying to be accommodating which I doubt the white kids at those schools in the 50s were. You have lived and experience completely different things so reading those two chapters helped me understand why people didn't want segregation, to be completely honest if things were truly equal I don't think people would have cared as much about being separate. Then there was the point in chapter 5 where Devlin brings up self-segregation and when I really think about it we have witnessed this in our own classroom whether instinctually or unconsciously the black kids are in a group together. People really don't like being out of there comfort zones and we are seeing parallels today. When I think back at it when given the opportunity to mesh and mingle with others I do find myself sticking with people like myself, it is a safety net you don't have to worry about people treating you like shit. this also really put in perspective what those kids really had to do they had to be on their game every single day, always perfect, always polite to get half of what the other kids had just because they were black in a white school. They had the weight of the future generation on their shoulders and they were children themselves.

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