Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Tumbleweed_Connection
The whole point behind the Brown vs. the Board of Whatever decision in 1954, is that students should go to the school closest to their house. This Supreme Court decision was a good and just one, but it was not about setting racial quotas.
11 posted on 01/19/2004 6:39:13 PM PST by IndependentSouthernDemocrat (RON PAUL 2008)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: IndependentSouthernDemocrat
The whole point behind the Brown vs. the Board of Whatever decision in 1954, is that students should go to the school closest to their house. This Supreme Court decision was a good and just one, but it was not about setting racial quotas.

Incorrect. The whole point behind the Brown vs. Board of Education was to destroy the Jim Crow system of Education in the south. To do that, the Supreme court based their decision on dubious research that "proved" that black students could not do well in school unless they were in the classroom with white kids. I'm not joking...you can look it up.

Given this "scientific" underpinning, it was perfectly natural to see bussing presented as a remedial tool.

Naturally, the "findings" of the "studies" that served as the "rational" basis for an emotional decision concerning a bad situation have never been able to be duplicated. As Thomas Sowell noted when discussing this case, it's an old legal maxim that "Hard Cases Make Bad Law".

19 posted on 01/19/2004 7:04:04 PM PST by jscd3
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson