The "Brown" v. Board of Education ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court brought hopes of long-denied freedom to Black communities and their inhabitants. However, implementation of Brown ushered in more misery than a mandate for equality. The "Brown" v. Board of Education ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court brought hopes of long-denied freedom to Black communities and their inhabitants. However, to white citizens, the "Brown" decision appeared to deliver horror over imagined miscegenation and other racial nightmares (Lopez & Burciaga, 2014). Consequently, implementation of "Brown" ushered in more misery than a mandate for equality. Far too often, post-"Brown" schools became regular "sites of suffering" for Black pupils (Dumas, 2014). Black suffering had long existed for Black students but white supremacy, which had always been a presence in and around Black schools, became meaner. Remarkable metaphors have been used by Black scholars to represent the corpus of Black voices in attempting to describe the increasingly violent, racialized school landscape that transpired after the court ruling. This account explores three key elements of the suffering caused by the Brown decision. First, the demise of fulsome Black counterpublic spaces are examined. Analyzed next are the array of cruel choices that have accompanied the quality school search for Black families that resulted from the counterpublic school downfall. Jarvis Givens (2019), in a recent book, describes something akin to this: the dichotomous choice for Black learners between becoming "literate slaves" or "fugitive slaves." Last, this narrative examines the burgeoning school accountability industry and the torture that all too commonly results from such schemes.