“Sylville’s death did not come as a surprise, just a wave of sadness,” Miela Fetaw, a 21-year-old resident of Milwaukee, told The Huffington Post. Here are a few reasons to help explain why black lives don’t seem to matter very much to the state of Wisconsin. Schools throughout the state are hyper-segregated and black students are among the lowest performers. “I think that one of the big issues is disinvestment in public education, and there are a lot of factors to that as well,” Taylor told HuffPost. High school suspension rates throughout the state also disproportionately affect black students.

Source: Huffington Post August 17, 2016 08:05 UTC