[The Electrician]

These two rulings, which stood for a half century, combined with the concerted efforts of many states and localities to do to blacks those things that Douglass argued against in his speech.

How convenient that he ignores the fact that Brown v. Board of Education has stood for a half century, too.

[aristeides]

Brown v. Board of Education has stood for a half century, too.

Nominally. Bakke struck Brown a serious blow, so Brown has been only half-alive for the last 25 years.

But Grutter dealt Brown a death blow. The Supreme Court has now allowed racial discrimination for the purpose of diversity. As Thomas's dissent points out, Grutter's logic would permit the reintroduction of segregation.