Nothin' but Nihil

What this podcast has helped me to understand about the desegregation practice is that desegregation has the power to help many black and Latino children in underprivileged neighborhoods, but it’s mainly the adults who won’t allow this to occur. Hannah Jones gave her own personal anecdote about how her Iowa school’s desegregation policies helped her to seek out a better future for herself, as she was able to get a degree and escape poverty. She was also able to make many white friends. From her viewpoint, desegregation seems like an obvious answer. It worked for her, and she even has the data that shows how black kids were able to cut the achievement gap by more than 50% when they attended desegregated schools. However, it was noted that desegregation efforts have mainly stopped across the country because officials and parents simply do not care enough to ensure that all children get access to equal education. In fact, the desegregation in St. Louis only occurred by chance when state o

In 2018, The Washington Post stated that school shootings were "a uniquely American crisis," and they're absolutely right. An old proverb states that "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." But is there any proverb for a country that's been fooled more than 1,300 times? The United States is one of the only countries in the world where our leaders time and time again do not understand the benefits of gun control. In April 1996, Australia had one of its worst mass shooting events ever, in which a man killed 35 people and wounded 18 others at the popular tourist location of Port Arthur. And what happened after? The country created the National Firearms Agreement (NFA), which banned the ownership of automatic and semi-automatic and ended up destroying more than a million firearms. Just recently, in 2019, New Zealand banned semi-automatic weapons and magazines with more than ten rounds after the Christchurch mosque shootings. However, none of t