“The View” hosts are praising the Baltimore mom heralded across the country for stopping her son from taking part in Monday’s protests, saying it was class, not race, that caused tension to boil over in Charm City.
“This situation is different from Ferguson, because it’s not so much of a black and white issue, it’s about class,” host Rosie Perez said on Wednesday’s episode. “The biggest civil rights issue in America is education, and that’s what creates classism.”
Perez pointed out that public schools are funded in large part by property taxes, so the poorest neighborhoods are usually home to the poorest schools with meager means to educate students and enable them to rise up out of poverty.