Yonkers Arguments Against Segregation In Schools

It was crystal clear that because of discriminatory housing policy actually let the Yonkers become segregated. A Federal judge ruled on November 20th in 1985 that city and school officials in Yonkers had ''illegally and intentionally'' segregated the city's public schools and public housing along racial lines. According to the, Judge Leonard B. Sand of Federal District Court in Manhattan said that in his 600 page decision that the segregation that existed in the Yonkers schools resulted from actions taken since 1949 by city and school officials(Williams 1). Moreover, he said that these included the deliberate placement of publicly financed and subsidized housing projects were build in a area where mostly minority (Black and Latinos) reside.
The court has accused the Yonkers official to accountable for the discriminatory action. The court had also found the the city's ''own discriminatory housing practices contributed substantially to the systemwide perpetuation and exacerbation of racial segregation in both housing and schools.''(William ). Because city official practice those discrimination towards Southwest Yonkers and choose which site they will build subsidize public housing and reject to build any subsidized housing where white folks lived.
It can be easily said that not only social situation or white fight against public housing in Eastern area but also political involvement which help that situation to keep the side out of the minority people. Therefore, social, political and economical push factor actually help to segregate public housing and school in the Southwest Yonkers. Even, the housing developer also against the affordable housing projects in Yonkers. ''That is a pretty heavy absorption,'' said Howard P. Sturman, a real-estate developer from Mount Vernon who is about to build 600 condominiums on the Hudson River in Yonkers. So capitalism grasp humanity as well because we can see that case he not only opposed that but also mentioned Yonkers can't take that weight because it is lot to ask. Although most cases rich people would mind to spend money on real estate no matter where it would build. As we read in our class “ The Case for Reparations” where we have read that white people bought property in the poor neighborhood and rented out to the poor people and make profit out of it. Thus, Sturman would have less worried regarding to the affordable housing in