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A white Southerner confronts her schooling at a segregated private ‘academy’ and challenges others
The Washington Post ^ | 11/07/19 | Vanessa Williams

Posted on 11/11/2019 2:13:49 PM PST by MplsSteve

Faced with growing public pressure to end racial segregation in public schools, thousands of white parents in the early 1970s enrolled their children in private academies that sprang up across the South.

Ellen Ann Fentress, a journalist and writer, was one of them. She is telling her story and urging other alumni of “seg academies” to come forward and give testimony about how attending an intentionally segregated school has shaped their lives as well as the social, political and economic fabric of the South.

Fentress first told her story in June with an essay in the online publication the Bitter Southerner. She wrote of being pulled from her public school in Greenwood, Miss., during her eighth-grade year and plunked down in “a scrambled egg-yellow steel building in a cotton field” called Pillow Academy.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
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To: MplsSteve

The author of this article is shown as Vanessa Williams.
Could it be the same beautiful & talented Vanessa Williams who became the first Black Miss America in history (1983)?
She’s 56 now, still looking good.

I would suspect most of the schools that this Vanessa went to were mostly white. Yet she seems to have enjoyed those school years. Probably because she was raised to keep a positive attitude, and a goal of getting along with people as you find them, vs sneer at them with a chip on one’s shoulder.


21 posted on 11/11/2019 2:34:51 PM PST by lee martell
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To: kaehurowing

My parents moved to an adjacent county when they learned I would be bused in the county in which we were living. The subsequent schools I attended were not segregated, but I was not bused anywhere. Private school was not an option for me, and my parents didn’t want me in a bad public school. I feel no white guilt about these decisions concerning my education. There, I have sort of testified as requested by the article.


22 posted on 11/11/2019 2:35:36 PM PST by Cecily
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To: MplsSteve

State segregation is ONE thing that is actually unconstitutional according to the 14th Amendment. The feds are actually constitutionally authorized to interfere with the states in that regard.

Almost EVERYTHING else the feds have imposed on the states is unconstitutional.


23 posted on 11/11/2019 2:36:36 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Private schools, y'know, like where the Obamas sent their kids.

24 posted on 11/11/2019 2:38:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Go look at her byline.

She’s nothing like the Vanessa Williams you’re picturing. Not even close. Just another racebaiter.


25 posted on 11/11/2019 2:38:16 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve

This woman is the typical Libtard who never went to school with people of another race, never lived beside someone of another race, never was friends with someone of another race, never sat down to dinner with, partied with, hung out with anyone of another race, will tell me, someone who has done all of those things, what a racist I am.


26 posted on 11/11/2019 2:38:57 PM PST by Tejas Rob
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

I don’t think so. This one is butt ugly.


27 posted on 11/11/2019 2:39:28 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: MplsSteve

Oh boy oh boy where do I start? She should go to school in the Inner City for just a bit. Or teach there. There, that says it all. And she can do her penance without involving ME in it, bc I don’t feel guilty.


28 posted on 11/11/2019 2:39:40 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: MplsSteve
Why the Washington Post Has No Credibility
29 posted on 11/11/2019 2:39:42 PM PST by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: MplsSteve

For instance, the feds are NOT constitutionally authorized to interfere with individuals or private business in regards to segregation. That is one reason why the 1964 Civil Rights Act is patently unconstitutional. The Act was demagoguery for LBJ and the Dems but is utterly unconstitutional.


30 posted on 11/11/2019 2:40:04 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: MplsSteve

The idea that busing would be imposed against the will of the people being bused without triggering a circumvention like these schools was an incredible miscalculation when the courts ordered busing when I was 9 years old.

Nashville’s public schools have never recovered. Today, if you can possibly afford to send your kid to a private school here, you do. With a handful of special situation exceptions, the public schools are only for the poor. And the segregation academies that started on a shoestring are now well established, and well funded.


31 posted on 11/11/2019 2:40:25 PM PST by babble-on
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To: MplsSteve

It’s called “freedom of association.”

Lefties hate anything having to do with freedom for other people.


32 posted on 11/11/2019 2:41:47 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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To: MplsSteve

>They were real in a number of deep south states.<

Pretty sure there were plenty in Northern states too. This is just more of the bullshit that only people from the Southern US are racist. Some of the worst racists I have ever known were from the North. Illinois at one time had the largest Klan membership in the US, by far.


33 posted on 11/11/2019 2:43:35 PM PST by Tejas Rob
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To: wardaddy

Maybe you should send this Fentress person your public school story.


34 posted on 11/11/2019 2:43:46 PM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: MplsSteve

If given the chance to live one’s life all over again everyone would still make a huge mess of it. No one is so dumb as the person who thinks they are a victim of their own upbringing and background. Well, there are some exceptions.....but I think the alum of Pillowland is knutzzz.


35 posted on 11/11/2019 2:43:48 PM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: MplsSteve

WaPo’s daily, elitist self-aggrandizement white-guilt hit piece - look at how racist those rednecks outside the beltway are!


36 posted on 11/11/2019 2:46:02 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Jim W N
The Act was demagoguery for LBJ and the Dems but is utterly unconstitutional.

Exactly.

Straight up social engineering, directly violates freedom of association.

37 posted on 11/11/2019 2:49:15 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: lee martell

The author of this article is shown as Vanessa Williams.
Could it be the same beautiful & talented Vanessa Williams who became the first Black Miss America in history (1983)?
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Nope. Think Harriet Myers and you’ll be pretty close.


38 posted on 11/11/2019 2:50:36 PM PST by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: mrmeyer

The self-righteousness gets my stomach roiling....


39 posted on 11/11/2019 2:51:35 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standupr Philosopher)
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To: Josa
she could make amends by moving into a black, inner city neighborhood today

I've met 1000 whining, self-important leftist, phony-prog women like her. Does she have children? Where do they go to school? Where I live, people like her send their kids to the $28,000/year private day-school, where they pretend to be SJW's and claim diversity because the rich Indian and Chinese surgeons send their kids to that school, and they have a lesbian on staff.

40 posted on 11/11/2019 2:52:06 PM PST by PGR88
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