In an unforgettable YouTube video produced by the American Federation for Children, an African American school choice activist named Walter invokes Martin Luther King to lament the myriad ways our education system fails black children. Playing on the words of MLK’s most famous speech, he says:
We stand in a vast ocean of prosperity. For some. For those who can afford the right zip code or tuition. Some find ourselves as an exile in our land, exiled from an education system just beyond our reach, just beyond that arbitrary red line, colored by some distant bureaucrat whose own children wouldn’t dare set foot in my school. When can we finally attend the school of our choice? When can we finally see the riches of freedom?
“When can we finally see the riches of freedom?”
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