Harris and the segregation at Westmount High
A Toronto Star columnist writes about how the de facto segregation at Westmount High in the 1980s shaped Kamala Harris’s identity – but he admits he had only been there ten years earlier, so a lot of his ideas about her time are based on surmise, such as that the Black students lived in “slum housing” and didn’t own winter boots.
walkerp 09:11 on 2024-09-10 Permalink
I’m not really sure what the point of that article was, though the brief history of the racial segregation in that period at Westmount High and how it evolved after the revolution was interesting. The Bay Area, though relatively progressive in a lot of ways back then was certainly no bastion of integration at the high school level. Students basically hung out in groups of their own race to the point that the mixed race kids were a separate group.