Great article. The author understands what integration is and isn’t. He makes the case against big-government regulation in the education system, but sadly, at the end, he suggests we look at housing, zoning, and property taxes. So while he admits that big-government regulation was a blight on public education and, ultimately, on the black community as a whole, he seems to think we should point the power of big-government regulation at the very fabric of society - the right to pay for better housing and better schools. In short, he wants property tax redistribution from the wealthy and middle class to the lower class. Did he learn nothing?
The author doesn’t go into detail on the subject, but I got something entirely different out of the statement about
“housing, zoning, and property taxes”
near the end.
I think the author means that if affordable housing is allowed to be built (by zoning that allows smaller homes to be built in an area) the property taxes would be affordable enough that integration will happen on it’s own naturally without the need for big government