Comments | jglewis: Brown v. Board

jglewis

Brown v. Board

Jul 08, 2007 09:21

Why is no one here talking about this? Our country has taken a huge leap backwards, and yet the debaters hear are silent. Am I missing something? Was it all a clever hoax? Is there still the possibility that integration has survived and Plessy v. Ferguson is not the Supreme Law of the Land ( Read more... )

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hejjhog July 8 2007, 14:36:59 UTC

Question: what does this decision change?

jglewis July 8 2007, 14:51:17 UTC

I'm sorry I posted this to my journal nsted of a community.
Brown v. Board was the landmark decision that held that seperate but unequal was inherantly unequal. While the decision is intended to remove plans in Seatle and Knoxville that use race in aloting SOME spots in school choice plans. What this has done is remove the consideration of race entirely in any school admission process.
It just worries me because the effects of this "reverse discrimintation" were not at all wide spread. The problam is that many minorities live in porr school districts with equally poor schools.
It's real interesting though because I agree with both view points, but the decision is completely wrong and will have deliterious effects.
I don't know. It's just a matter of Brown being supported by fifty years of precident and case law. Brown is one of the surest rulings in American constitutional law. The ground shifted from beneath my feet. Now they can go after equal opportunity employment and housing.

jglewis July 8 2007, 15:00:07 UTC

I don't know, maybe I'm over reacting, but it just seems out of sorts that a ruling like Brown can be struck down after Fifty years. I am just very concerned. Also there is the increasingly Right Wing attitude of so many people in america.
If you have a differing opinion I would love to hear it.

hejjhog July 8 2007, 20:54:23 UTC

I'm sorry I posted this to my journal instead of a community.
It's your journal!
If you feel like expressing an opinion (or just screaming about something you feel deeply about) then I'd think your journal would be the first place to write about it... But then, I digress.
Brown v. Board was the landmark decision that held that separate but unequal was inherently unequal. While the decision is intended to remove plans in Seattle and Knoxville that use race in allotting SOME spots in school choice plans. What this has done is remove the consideration of race entirely in any school admission process.
Well, I DO know what Brown was, the whole "landmark"ness of it. I don't know, the rant you posted (Yes, heaven forbid people should be judged on their merits alone. What a horror show. How ever will those poor blacks get along without the benevolence of a bunch of crusty, wealthy, elitist old white dudes they've never met in a white building hundreds of miles away to ensure that the bar is lowered only for them? Because we know how ( ... )

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