Posted on 12/12/2014 10:03:34 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that state laws establishing separate public schools for Black and white students were unconstitutional, violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The 9-0 decision was hailed as a major victory for the civil rights of African-Americans, paving the way for the integration of the nation’s schools. But in retrospect, while there was reason to celebrate the court decision, there were also many things the Black community lost after the Brown decision.
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The push is on to make good excuses for why segregation is actually a good thing now.
What are they defining as “effective black schools” and “effective black teachers”?
These same black segregationists would be the first to scream if whites were to re-segregate in the manner they seem to be cheering for blacks.
“I remember what a fuss there was when integration was forced in my community at the time.”
Why was it necessary to force integration on your community?
As Black children were put into an environment perceived as controlled by whites, the phenomenon of young Black kids equating academic excellence with “acting white” arose. In the Black schools, Black students largely cheered their classmates for achievements. But after desegregation created a clear division of white and Black, the association shifted and Black students began to tease one another by pushing their smart peers into the ‘white’ category. Ever since then, we have seen that Black kids tended to perform more poorly when mixed with whites. …False dilemma, never mind pure racism on the part of the author. Whatever school integration brought, it did not precipitate the Marxist destruction of the family among a great swath of blacks.
The nature of local law at the time prescribed busing students from the inner city schools out to suburban schools.
why does the author put black as “Black” and white as “white”???...if he want to use a capital B for black then I demand he use a capital W for whites....
Resegregation into private schools or home school networks by families who wish their children to succeed academically would be a great thing, but then, segregation in that circumstance becomes pretty much irrelevant. Hereabouts in this southern town there are many home schooling families and some of them are Negro. They all interact to get the best educations for their kids. The important thing is the desire to educate your children, for everyone, not just for Negroes. Once that is the goal, families with that goal find that race means nothing at all.
The Marxist assault on the family is another animal. At least I tend to think of it that way. But how often are successful blacks ridiculed by their brothers for their accomplishments? I tend to take the author’s word for it as far as this phenomenon becoming more prevalent when integration became operative on the basis of Brown vs. Board of Education. Well-meaning law appears to have done some serious damage. It took away some freedoms, anyway.
The left will always do everything to further its aims, so nothing outside Marxism is “another animal” even with respect to any and all Plessy versus Ferguson revanchists.
Sounds like black supremacy to me.
“integration was forced in my community at the time”
How did they FORCE integration on you?
It almost seems as though the author is longing for the days of segregation.
That was Busing, not Integration. They used the word Integration to make it sound nice.
I may have used too strong a word. The laws under which I lived at the time prescribed busing of inner city students into the suburban school I attended.
I think it is incumbent upon reasonable people to understand it is natural for people with the same affinities and cultural background to stick together to a large degree while having the freedom to associate with whomever they choose without suffering negative social or legal repercussions. If anything, the author seems to long for common sense.
Notice in the story how black is capitalized and White is not. I feel so small:-(
I hate these hate mongers. See, it’s working.
You’re obviously a Racist /s
A number of inconvenient truths are expressed here. I would add that, decades ago, you didn’t see all this baby mama stuff going on, and all the youth gang violence and crime to the degree you see it today.
They mention Dunbar High School In Washington. Dunbar is still there but is just like any other ghetto high school nowadays. Its former excellence is just a memory due to the gang, inner city, baby mama culture.
Well, it was busing in the interest of bringing about integration. To me is is a distinction with little difference.
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