Race and the Roberts Court
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last Thursday to limit the use of race in public school integration programs will not halt integration entirely, but does create setbacks for communities aiming to promote diversity in public schools, says Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a Harvard law school professor.
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_7942.shtml
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Our country continues to move backwards with regard to equal access for ALL CHILDREN in educational institutions. In is no wonder there is such a great divide and gap in learning outcomes.
July 5th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Race has been an integral, artifical construct in this country since its inception. The use of race to objectify, denigrate, demonise and destroy subjected people and render them landless and property-impaired, is both historical fact and current event.
Race is still used to create adverse policies in banking, real estate, brokerage and education. Today’s schizophrenic views of race–it’s history,” let’s forget it” has now mated with “they really are inferior, but we can’t say it aloud”. The unholy miscegnation of mental mindsets has allowed a great deal of behind the scenes, out of sight shennanigns, which masks the still dangerous face of American Racism. While the seperate but equal doctrine’s LEGAL birthmother–Jim Crow, has been smothered beneath a mountain of legal paperwork and legislation, today’s attitudes on race and bigotry are becoming increasingly more polarized.
Many of today’s young people, both black and white, the middle class variety, that is, are trying to outrun the past; whereas, their blue collar and working poor counterparts wallow in racism and victimhood, using it as a shield and comfort againt the uncertainties of today’s fluctuating economy.
For a discussion as to how racism and lynching has led to a decrease in land legacy among African Americans, see my book:
Land, Legacy and Lynching: Building the Future in Black America, Lulu Press.