May 17 will be the 70th "anniversary" of the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that once and for all destroyed the "Separate but Equal" paradigm that racist school district had used to facilitate school segregation. The Court said, in essence, that public schools could no longer be intentionally separated by race just to keep White people happy, because the claims that the Black and White schools were not in fact "equal" in any meaningful way. Ironically, the petitioner in that case, lived in an integrated neighborhood and was not allowed to go to her neighborhood school, which was White, and was bused to a remote school with was "Colored." Later Federal court cases went further, forcing busing when the Leftist judges with their nearly infinite power didn't think enough "progress" was being made. In my home town of Pittsburgh, a Federal judge forced the merger of five (5) school districts to satisfy his megalomaniacal desires w/r/t "social justice." Where he got this power in the U.S. Constitution or anywhere else was never fully explained (because it didn't exist).
It is an interesting bit of history that the import of that case has forever been ignored because...it has been a total fiasco.
These changes were NOT made merely to "integrate" the schools, eh? The theory that drove them was that Black kids weren't getting the education to which they were entitled under the U.S. Constitution ("equal protection") and under the Constitutions of the various states because the segregated Black schools were somehow inferior. And when the schools were "integrated" that shortcoming would be corrected.
So when you fast-forward 70 years and look at the post-integration situation you SHOULD FIND that Black kids are getting an education that is equal to that of White kids. More important, the dreaded racial discrepancies in academic performance (the "Achievement Gap") should have been...well...eliminated. Because THAT IS WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT. It was not about integration for the sake of integration.
And I dare say, the Achievement Gap has persisted, and to the extent that it has been reduced, it hasnot been because Black academic performance has improved. On the contrary it is because White performance has gotten worse, relatively speaking.
So when you read the articles in your local birdcage liner about the legacy of Brown v Board of Education - as you surely will in the next few days - keep in mind that it was a total failure, and accomplished nothing but pissing off millions and millions of parents and kids for no real benefit.
Tell me if I'm wrong. But no opinions, please. Please cite data showing that the academic performance of Black kids improved with racial integration - without harming the performance of the White kids that they went to school with.
There is no such data because it is simply not the case.
It is an interesting bit of history that the import of that case has forever been ignored because...it has been a total fiasco.
These changes were NOT made merely to "integrate" the schools, eh? The theory that drove them was that Black kids weren't getting the education to which they were entitled under the U.S. Constitution ("equal protection") and under the Constitutions of the various states because the segregated Black schools were somehow inferior. And when the schools were "integrated" that shortcoming would be corrected.
So when you fast-forward 70 years and look at the post-integration situation you SHOULD FIND that Black kids are getting an education that is equal to that of White kids. More important, the dreaded racial discrepancies in academic performance (the "Achievement Gap") should have been...well...eliminated. Because THAT IS WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT. It was not about integration for the sake of integration.
And I dare say, the Achievement Gap has persisted, and to the extent that it has been reduced, it hasnot been because Black academic performance has improved. On the contrary it is because White performance has gotten worse, relatively speaking.
So when you read the articles in your local birdcage liner about the legacy of Brown v Board of Education - as you surely will in the next few days - keep in mind that it was a total failure, and accomplished nothing but pissing off millions and millions of parents and kids for no real benefit.
Tell me if I'm wrong. But no opinions, please. Please cite data showing that the academic performance of Black kids improved with racial integration - without harming the performance of the White kids that they went to school with.
There is no such data because it is simply not the case.