[Pelham]

When I was a boy Washington DC still had a black high school, Dunbar, that was famous for producing highly educated graduates. This was before affirmative action or anything like it, anyone who graduated from Dunbar was the real deal.

But then, according to Thomas Sowell, the end of racial segregation following Brown v Board of Education blew it up:

"For Washington, the end of racial segregation led to a political compromise, in which all schools became neighborhood schools. Dunbar, which had been accepting outstanding black students from anywhere in the city, could now accept only students from the rough ghetto neighborhood in which it was located. Virtually overnight, Dunbar became a typical ghetto school. As unmotivated, unruly and disruptive students flooded in, Dunbar teachers began moving out and many retired. More than 80 years of academic excellence simply vanished into thin air.

The road to hell being paved with the good intentions of liberalism.

[Shady]

This is fascinating, apparently Dr. Peoples is 101 years old! http://www.jsums.edu/alumni/2019/08/25/dr-john-a-peoples-jr/