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Liberals' idea of micromanaging schools is to bus students out of their neighborhoods to a schools miles away from home so the correct racial balance could be achieved. That was forced busing in the 70s. It worked so well in Boston. Schools are segregated there today more than ever and Judge Geraghty - the liberal federal judge who imposed forced busing on the city remains a hated household word there. Liberals would like to reinstitute the practice but refrain from doing so only for fear of a public backlash. The truth of the matter is the Left is obsessed with race and color since it needs to perpetuate victims that provide it with a sense of entitlement and power. Left far behind in the dust is the ideal it once championed of a "color blind" society.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

According to Senator Hillary Clinton, the decision has “turned the clock back” on the history of hard-won gains in the realm of civil rights; it is “a setback for all of us who are on the long march toward racial equality and the building of a stronger more unified America”; and it demonstrates the John Roberts-led Supreme Court’s “willingness to erode core constitutional guarantees.”

Remember, now:

It's OK to look at a person's skin color when deciding what SCHOOL they can go to (because skin color matters so much when it comes to reading and writing, uh, right?) ...but it's NOT OK to look at a person's skin color when it comes to national security (because skin color DOESN'T matter when you're looking for MUSLIM terrorists--they could be blonde, blue-eyed or Jewish).

The Democrat idea of a colorblind society--forced desegregation-yes; profiling to prevent terrorism-no!

wikipedia:

"Today the Boston Public Schools are 86% African American and Hispanic. According to the 2000 census, Boston's white population is 54.48%, whereas Boston's black and Hispanic populations together total 39.77%. Newcomer professional white families in the city have comparatively fewer children, and some of those white parents prefer to send their children to private and parochial schools rather than have their children attend public school. In South Boston, a neighborhood found by U.S. News and World Report (October 1994) to have had the highest concentration of white poverty in the country, dropout rates soared, its poorer census tracts' dropout rates superseding rates based on race and ethnicity citywide. South Boston, along with other poor and working class white census tracts of Charlestown and parts of Dorchester, saw an increase in control by organized crime and young deaths due to murder, overdose, and criminal involvement. Boston's South Boston High School (now the South Boston High complex) was declared "dysfunctional" by the State Board of Education."

Who says forced bussing doesn't work? So what if poor people in Southie dropped out in record numbers and mob control increased--they're JUST poor whites!

Judge Geraghty

Spelled "Garrity," FYI.

http://www.adversity.net/special/busing.htm

Check out those articles, esp. the one by Jeff Jacoby.

One doesn't have to be a conservative, either, to agree that this was one of the most disgraceful, racist moments in our history, but it was just poor whities whose lives were ruined, so Hillary doesn't give a ****.

Sorry, my father was from Southie and this story still gets me ripped. I know black people who are perfectly happy living in Southie, something that wouldn't have happened a long time ago, so Southie has changed, albeit slowly. Can't say the same for Roxbury, I'm afraid, where the residents seem proud of living in an area most people of all ethnicities are afraid to go at night.

Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd laments that “the shame of re-segregation in our country has been occurring for years.”

Sure, it's a shame individual families can decide on their own, w/o government "help", where to live and thus where their kids attend school.

Of course, if we didn't have forced public indoctrination centers, I mean public schools, it wouldn't matter.

Thus one socialist idea causes a problem for the next socialist idea. Gee, what a surprise.