Posted on 06/29/2007 1:58:57 AM PDT by bhamlett
WASHINGTON, June 28 — With competing blocs of justices claiming the mantle of Brown v. Board of Education, a bitterly divided Supreme Court declared Thursday that public school systems cannot seek to achieve or maintain integration through measures that take explicit account of a student’s race.
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While I enjoy meeting all different kinds of people, as a conservative, I cannot support a policy that selects students based upon race.
Both segregation and reverse segregation use the same means to achieve different ends, but the ends do not justify the means. Both actively select select students based solely upon race, one to promote diversity and one to promote uniformity. Certainly we are a sufficiently creative, intelligent society that we can develop a policy to promote diversity that doesn’t use reverse segregation. The Supreme Court made a good choice yesterday.
by Brad Hamlett http://bhamlett.wordpress.com
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1. They’re all in the HUMAN race. It’s intolerant to make a big deal over ethnicities....
2. Less busing means less carbon credits and pollution. It’s for the children!
Is Brown v. Board of Education the decision that allowed busing little kids all over the city to achieve “racial” diversity?
To prevent duplication, please do not alter the title. Thanks.
You greatly changed (and made inaccurate) the title of the thread. Also, posting an incorrect title makes it hard to check for duplicates.
Correct title
“Justices Limit the Use of Race in School Plans for Integration”
Quite different. “Limiting” is not the same as “ending.”
The court threw out these programs because they did not look at non-race remedies before using race. That opens the door to “look at” other remedies, decide they won’t work and go back to race based discrimination.
Good. The unconstitutional abomination may just end.
>>Is Brown v. Board of Education the decision that allowed busing little kids all over the city to achieve “racial” diversity?<<
Not really. Brown was in 1951. It banned race based segregation. Before this, schools had gotten around the equal protection clause by claiming the schools were equal but segregated.
Oh for heavens sake. Don't act like as if the thread poster committed a crime. The Admin moderater will surely remove it from breaking news if he finds it necessary
And since when can threads not be posted in breaking news?
I believe the folks who originally brought the suits were looking for equal resources, not to rub shoulders with white people.
I believe that Martin Luther King wanted all students to have a fair shot if they deserved it. "Deserved it" being the operative words...
Busing ... no kidding 1st - 4th grade students in North East Oklahoma city in the 80s were being bused 1 hour each way per day in order to attend a traditionally white elementary school... What did these exhausted elementary school children gain from this hideous experience? Nothing... they were failing in every subject.
You are correct. In Charlotte the courts struck down a similar lawsuit based on race even though the school district fought to keep race based busing.
What they are doing now in Charlotte is assigning students based on income. So you end up with the same racial quotas without using race as a criteria.
The author is Linda Greenhouse. Why did you list yourself as author?
>>I believe the folks who originally brought the suits were looking for equal resources, not to rub shoulders with white people.<<
The reason that people talk about the Kansas case is that “there was no contention of gross inferiority of the segregated schools’ physical plant, curriculum, or staff.”
They were up against a 1896 Supreme Court precedent (Plessy v. Ferguson) which ruled that segregation on trains was legal because the cars were equal.
The Supreme Court, in Brown, reversed this 9-0 saying “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
>>Busing ... no kidding 1st - 4th grade students in North East Oklahoma city in the 80s were being bused 1 hour each way per day in order to attend a traditionally white elementary school... What did these exhausted elementary school children gain from this hideous experience? Nothing... they were failing in every subject.<<
The great irony (well, one of the ironies) in busing is that one of the arguments in Brown was that kids were bing forced to ride busses to distant schools rather than attend neighborhood schools because they were the wrong color.
You mean Martin Luther King may finally be getting his wish about people being judged by the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin?
I think the issue was the ad-lib title which the moderator did correct.
In case you don’t know, Kaslin, there was a recent thread where they specifically asked people to be careful about what was posted in breaking and frontpage news. Doing so, IMO, makes the kmods jobs slightly easier as they don’t have to go around yanking posts that should not have been on the sidebars. This is also called personal responsibility at the poster’s end.
Of course, I didn’t expect YOU to know that. All that you care about is the Daily Bot Central threads.
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