You know what I want to know?
How long ago did he write this crap that it was ready for publication so quickly? His recap totally excises any sign of the immediate, unending opposition to equal education, much less integration, either mounted, supported or accepted by the mainstream.
It therefore totally misrepresents the truth.
...the decision in Brown v. Board of Education that focused on outlawing segregated schools as unconstitutional is now out of step with American political and social realities.
Though this one bit sounds about right.
Anyway, what do you do, think of horrible things that can be done to Black folk, write something up, file it until it's needed? Does someone call, "Yo, Juan. We're about to jam that thing through, write up something nice, whydoncha?"
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Brown v. Board of Education
What is apparently not out of step with American political and social realities is the ongoing process of miseducating and not educating poor children especially if they are black or brown. I have long held that what the NAACP and its allies should have devoted their energies to was mobilizing and organizing black parents to demand a qualitative change in the educational opportunities provided by the public school systems to their children. This unbalanced emphasis on racial integration, for example, was, in large part, predicated on an objectively false premise and irrational hope. It was that white parents would not ultimately pull their children and their resources from urban schools. I have long wondered what in our history as American Negroes and, later, African Americans would have led even the most fanatical integrationist to believe that this would not occur in response to calls for truly integrating America's schools.
The Supreme Court's decision regarding the Seattle and Louisville school districts should remind folks, especially black folks, that resistence to black advancement, in particular, efforts to ameliorate the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow is par for the course in America. Roberts and Alito have a long history that predates their membership in the bar or ascension to the judicial bench of opposing black social, political and economic advancement. In the case of Roberts, who grew up in a very affluent household and community, his behavior and attitude with regard to blacks seems, as legal scholar and writer Ronald Dworkin has pointed out on several occasions, strange and puzzling.
We need to put an end to having our children used as cannon fodder to promote social policies that may be desireable but don't ensure that our children receive a quality education. There is nothing wrong with predominately black schools if the children attending there are receiving a quality education. Black and brown folks need to begin mobilizing and organizing around the issue of improving the schools in their communities. If this means taking on the teachers' unions, school boards, real estate interests and elected officials then so be it. We have wasted too much time since 1954.
Please produce the image - there are plenty of us
who would appreciate it.