"Our goal is to establish language
that is gender-neutral, ethnic-neutral,
and age-neutral, while celebrating
our spirit of diversity."
Posted on 12/06/2006 1:46:13 PM PST by jazusamo
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A week ago, I pondered whether public-school integration was dead.
I got my answer Monday as I sat in the audience listening as the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court probed and prodded on the matter of race.
Diversity, as a tool of public education, is dead as a doornail.
It was in the air. The elegantly gilded courtroom turned somber as one justice after another dismissed the notion of purposeful diversity efforts in public education.
Someone next to me whispered they had just seen the widow of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. As a young attorney, Marshall successfully argued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case that paved the way for federal troops to escort black children past angry crowds into newly integrated schools.
It seemed strangely appropriate that Marshall's widow be there Monday to witness the unraveling of Brown.
The court won't rule on Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District until spring. But I believe a narrow majority will ban Seattle's use of race in divvying up seats in oversubscribed high schools.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Lynne, the only thing left for you to do is move to France, where diversity is real and growing every day.
"Diversity, as a tool of public education, is dead as a doornail."
"Diversity, as a tool of public education, is dead as a doornail."
"Diversity, as a tool of public education, is dead as a doornail."
I just like seeing that.
Call it was it is - government sponsored racism.
Good. It is long overdue and I hope this spring the ruling is positive.
This writer seems like a nice lady -- problem is that she is advocating racism.
Said it more than once. Leftists are the biggest racists on the planet.
The turning point.
Circle the wagons to the RIGHT.
Diversity is fine as far as I am concerned, as long as diversity isn't every thing but white...as it has become today. Liberals have turned our diverse 'melting pot' into a 'salad bowl'...
The 'problem' that the Seattle School District was trying to remedy is what's known as de facto segregation. It's what happens when free people gravitate geographically to live with others who share their ethnicity. It's been proven that blacks, as well as whites, tend to do just that. Brown v. Board of Education dealt with de jure segregation-that which is mandated by government. De facto is what happens when you leave people alone to make their own decisions. It's having choices, like where your kids go to school and where you live, that's the real crux of the 'problem', which liberals want to remedy, as usual, by government force.
Schools have never been diverse. They are ALL LIBERAL BREEDING GROUNDS.....
You're exactly correct and that is what the liberal left has tried to force on us under the guise of "diversity." The left doesn't like the fact that a given school reflects the diversity of that schools boundaries and they've gone to great lengths to remedy that.
It looks like SCOTUS will finally put a stop to their charade.
The Death of EDUCATIONAL RACISM is more like it....we should be PARTYING!!!
"Our goal is to establish language
that is gender-neutral, ethnic-neutral,
and age-neutral, while celebrating
our spirit of diversity."
LOL! I have never understood the concept of di-versity at a uni-versity.
Oh, yeah. The Brown decision forbade the assignment of students to public schools by race. And now the libs are crying that the Supreme Court may rule--AGAIN--that assigning students by race is unconstitutional.
There are two separate ideas here: 1. Desegration, and 2. Forced Busing, (I can't call it anything else--it's not voluntary, and it involves busing away from neighborhood school). Brown was the end of 'separate but equal'. It eliminated segregated schools and allowed black children to attend the school closest to them -- a good thing. What Seattle and other school districts around the country are doing in chasing after diversity, is essentially forced busing. It is not neighborhood schools, it is busing kids to far away schools to acheive racial balance. This Supreme Court decision would actually be a return to Brown -- neighborhood schools.
I agree with you.I am very much FOR diversity,the reason being that my childhood was completely UNdiverse and I suffered for that in later years when I had to get out into the REAL world and discovered their were other cultures out there besides my white suburban one.
Yet too often diversity becomes political and an excuse to exclude or bash whites,at least in the abstract.Yet most whites who have been in diverse situations don't regret it.I know I don't.Have found very little personal"honky bashing"among other groups.And the ones that fall into that trap are generally the ones who treat ALL people poorly.
Yep...The left wants it both ways, I think the term is cherrypicking.
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