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Marlon James' Conclusion? Windsor is a Segregated Town

Page 33 of the MJLU report asks, "Why is a structural practice namely segregation, which socially is a prerequisite to harsher forms of discrimination, found in a school in 2013?"  Page 32 of the MJLU report states, "Segregation is a required condition for inequality, for it enables the empowered to separate those designated to receive privilege from those selected to endure varying forms of discrimination (Feagin & Feagin, 2008).    .........  WOW!  This does not describe the Windsor that I know.  How Marlon James, and Loyola University, came to this conclusion since being contracted for this study in April, I do not know.  .........  When someone else drafted up the report for the Racial Imbalance committee I served on in October/November 1989, he used the words "racially segregated" to describe Windsor.  I objected because segregation means intentionality.  The word segregated was changed to imbalanced in our final report.  .........  As I read through the MJLU report, I saw no examples cited of students selected "to endure varying forms of discrimination," nor students "designated to receive privilege."

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