Posted on 11/11/2019 2:13:49 PM PST by MplsSteve
The author of this article is shown as Vanessa Williams.
Could it be the same beautiful & talented Vanessa Williams who became the first Black Miss America in history (1983)?
She’s 56 now, still looking good.
I would suspect most of the schools that this Vanessa went to were mostly white. Yet she seems to have enjoyed those school years. Probably because she was raised to keep a positive attitude, and a goal of getting along with people as you find them, vs sneer at them with a chip on one’s shoulder.
My parents moved to an adjacent county when they learned I would be bused in the county in which we were living. The subsequent schools I attended were not segregated, but I was not bused anywhere. Private school was not an option for me, and my parents didn’t want me in a bad public school. I feel no white guilt about these decisions concerning my education. There, I have sort of testified as requested by the article.
State segregation is ONE thing that is actually unconstitutional according to the 14th Amendment. The feds are actually constitutionally authorized to interfere with the states in that regard.
Almost EVERYTHING else the feds have imposed on the states is unconstitutional.
Private schools, y'know, like where the Obamas sent their kids.
Go look at her byline.
She’s nothing like the Vanessa Williams you’re picturing. Not even close. Just another racebaiter.
This woman is the typical Libtard who never went to school with people of another race, never lived beside someone of another race, never was friends with someone of another race, never sat down to dinner with, partied with, hung out with anyone of another race, will tell me, someone who has done all of those things, what a racist I am.
I don’t think so. This one is butt ugly.
Oh boy oh boy where do I start? She should go to school in the Inner City for just a bit. Or teach there. There, that says it all. And she can do her penance without involving ME in it, bc I don’t feel guilty.
For instance, the feds are NOT constitutionally authorized to interfere with individuals or private business in regards to segregation. That is one reason why the 1964 Civil Rights Act is patently unconstitutional. The Act was demagoguery for LBJ and the Dems but is utterly unconstitutional.
The idea that busing would be imposed against the will of the people being bused without triggering a circumvention like these schools was an incredible miscalculation when the courts ordered busing when I was 9 years old.
Nashville’s public schools have never recovered. Today, if you can possibly afford to send your kid to a private school here, you do. With a handful of special situation exceptions, the public schools are only for the poor. And the segregation academies that started on a shoestring are now well established, and well funded.
It’s called “freedom of association.”
Lefties hate anything having to do with freedom for other people.
>They were real in a number of deep south states.<
Pretty sure there were plenty in Northern states too. This is just more of the bullshit that only people from the Southern US are racist. Some of the worst racists I have ever known were from the North. Illinois at one time had the largest Klan membership in the US, by far.
Maybe you should send this Fentress person your public school story.
If given the chance to live one’s life all over again everyone would still make a huge mess of it. No one is so dumb as the person who thinks they are a victim of their own upbringing and background. Well, there are some exceptions.....but I think the alum of Pillowland is knutzzz.
WaPo’s daily, elitist self-aggrandizement white-guilt hit piece - look at how racist those rednecks outside the beltway are!
Exactly.
Straight up social engineering, directly violates freedom of association.
The author of this article is shown as Vanessa Williams.
Could it be the same beautiful & talented Vanessa Williams who became the first Black Miss America in history (1983)?
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Nope. Think Harriet Myers and you’ll be pretty close.
The self-righteousness gets my stomach roiling....
I've met 1000 whining, self-important leftist, phony-prog women like her. Does she have children? Where do they go to school? Where I live, people like her send their kids to the $28,000/year private day-school, where they pretend to be SJW's and claim diversity because the rich Indian and Chinese surgeons send their kids to that school, and they have a lesbian on staff.
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