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Derrick Leon Washington,
PhD.
2019 0HCHR
Minority Fellow
Website: www.urbanstomp.org
/ email: washingtondee@sbcglobal.net
Twelfth Session of the Forum on Minority Issues, November
28fh and 29'h 2019
Geneva, Switzerland
Item 1: Human
Thank
Rights
and Minority
Language
Education
you Mr. / Ms. Chairperson,
As a cultural anthropologist
with an interest in education
reform and equity, I am
committed
to productive
dialogues,
especially with my government,
the United States
America.
The United States has achieved great strides with STEMand
language education
accessibility
for youth in recent years. Even with these achievements,
data shows
the educational
possibilities
of African American and Latino youth are negatively
affected by lack of access to quality education that centers language skills.
of
that
According
to the African American
Policy Forum, the "school to prison pipeline" refers
to the interaction
of national, state, and local policies and practices that serve to push
young people, disproportionately
African Americans,
out of schools and into the
criminal justice system.
1.
For example,
census
or statistics,
counterparts
2.
Also
in New York,
If this
issue
system
that
were
under
American
is the
some
likely
described
to be expelled
as "Black"in
compared
to their
female
more
youth
described
in census
or
likely to be expelled
compared
to their
http.l/aapf.orq/school-to-prison-pipeline
largest
form
being
male youth
as "White".
is not addressed,
adults
is a troubling
American
are 53 times
identified
Source:
3.
more
as "White".
African
StatiSticS as "Black",
counterparts
American
are 10 times
identified
in New York,
African
we will
in the world.
of correctional
5.9 times
continue
to increase
As of 2015,
control
over
in the United
as likely to be incarcerated
a criminal
6.7 million
States.
justice
individuals
With African-
as Caucasians,
issue.
Source:
Report
U.S. Criminal
to the United
Justice
Nations
System-The
on Racial
Sentencing
Disparities
Project,
https.l/www.sentencinqproiect.orq/publications/un-report-on-racialdisparities/
in the
this