Posted on 06/29/2007 1:26:44 PM PDT by SmithL
JUNE 28, 2007, will be remembered as a shameful day in the long, elusive battle to instill equal opportunity in American schools.
The U.S. Supreme Court's twisted logic in limiting a school district's ability to take race into account as a way to end racial segregation echoes the court's Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling of 1896. That ruling put the imprimatur on "separate but equal" policies that allowed racial discrimination and oppression to flourish for more than half-a-century more.
The 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision, fortunately, drove a dagger into Plessy's heart -- until Thursday, when a court invigorated by two new conservative justices moved to resuscitate it.
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The court's rulings represent a triumph for advocates of "colorblind policies," such as Ward Connerly, the former University of California regent who began the assault on the use of race in public institutions when he persuaded the Board of Regents to ban affirmative action at the university in 1995.
For years, Connerly has invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call for people to be judged by the "content of their character" rather than the color of the skin. But wishing for a colorblind society does not make it so.
We, too, believe people should be judged by the content of their character -- in a society of equal opportunity. We are equally sure that the great civil rights leader would have been appalled by the Supreme Court's rulings this week -- and would be mourning the nation's backward movement toward school segregation.
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The Comicle is in favor of State-sponsored racism.
Inequality = equality. Equality = inequality. Got it?
Thank goodness the Chronicle is against the decision. Otherwise I’d have to rethink my position on it.
What a kook.
You don’t end racism by using it.
THIS IS A HUGE setback for the racists on the left and those making a living by their race-baiting techniques. We once had preference afforded whites, then for 40 years afforded blacks, now back to a level playing field and a race-blinded admissions process.
The Dim’s have, throughout their entire history, been in favor of discrimination on the basis of race. The only thing that changes is which race (or sex nowadays) should suffer the discrimination.
“We are equally sure that the great civil rights leader would have been appalled by the Supreme Court’s rulings this week...”
Shouldn’t that have been: “We are equally sure that the Great Civil Rights Leader would have been appalled by the Supreme Court’s rulings this week...”
Oops. We lied. We want some pigs to be more equal than others.
Funny about that.
That would be Marin County, and the ratios are close to that....few more Asians.
Sheer constitutional illiteracy at the Chron. This decision, far from resuscitating Plessy, is in the spirit of the Plessy dissent!
Treating people equally, regardless of race, is “A Setback To Equality.”
BizzaroWorld.
“Inequality = equality. Equality = inequality.”
That about sums it up.
I have never understood the “we will overcome racism by doing certain things based on race” mentality.
The white population in some areas is below 50% of the population. Will they be elligible for set asides and special considerations when they fall to second or third rank status?
Or does their collective “guilt” of heritage mean they should always have to give a little more?
It certainly doesn’t lead to colorblindness. It requires that everyone take notice.
As to MLK Jr., he was starting to buy into arguments of class issues.
Should we be bussing wealthy families’ kids to the ghetto and telling them that their costly private schools set up a two tiered system for education/discrimination?
If racism is truly a bad thing, shouldn't all policies be 'colorblind'?
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