Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria?

Wednesday, August 1, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT; updated 4:28 p.m. CDT, Saturday, July 19, 2008

It’s a proven fact that most students self-segregate based on race. Don’t Believe me? Go look. Black kids sit with Black kids. White kids with White kids. Latinos with Latinos. But why? This is 2007! Shouldn’t we be past this by now? Why can’t we be totally integrated without compulsion?

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