Most Violent – America loves to talk about violence in Black communities, but rarely the violence done to them.
The Truth is, from slavery and segregation to police brutality and redlining, the pattern never changed — harm us, then blame us for the harm.
And that same violence shows up in a quieter way, right inside our schools.

Schools are underfunded, overcrowded, and underperforming.
That’s not failure — that’s design.
It starts before kindergarten.

When you send your child to a government-funded daycare, the staff isn’t even allowed to teach them their ABCs.
The reason? Those workers are labeled daycare providers, not teachers.
But we’re talking about three- and four-year-olds, the most critical learning years of their lives.
Any adult spending hours a day with a child should be helping them count, recognize letters, or sound out words.
Yet if the parent isn’t teaching at home, the system isn’t stepping in either.
You can’t even rely on Head Start to get your child ahead — and that’s where the setback begins.

I remember being in the third grade, and to be promoted to the fourth, I only needed to score at a second-grade reading level.
That told me reading below grade level was “good enough.”
Now imagine that same low bar year after year.
By the time a kid graduates, they’re not reading on a college level — they’re reading exactly where the system left them.
So when they take their community college entrance exams, many are placed in remedial classes — already behind before they begin.

This isn’t about ability. It’s about neglect — a form of systemic violence that keeps poverty alive and progress out of reach.

At Black Perspective News, we’ll keep saying it plain:
The most violent things done to us were done to us — and the system is still doing them.