Comments | matt_rah: 37 out of 40 ain't bad

matt_rah

37 out of 40 ain't bad

Feb 28, 2008 22:10

Today I got to meet Jack Greenberg, who, among many other accomplishments, was one of the lawyers who argued Brown v. Board in 1954. I basically interrogated him during lunch about school desegregation, and his opinion about that issue vis-a-vis the future of the Supreme Court. It was, in a word, awesome ( Read more... )

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instigator_ash February 29 2008, 16:12:47 UTC

Don't leave me in the dark here... what was his opinion?

matt_rah March 1 2008, 04:07:13 UTC

Well, he was understandably pretty annoyed by the recent decisions in the Supreme Court regarding Louisville, KY and Seattle. Those cities' voluntary desegration programs were deemed (get this!) to be in violation of Brown v. Board.

But he was also quite optimistic that Obama was going to be the next President, and would appoint a liberal justice or two, and that either Democratic candidate would reverse the trend towards increasing re-segregation of the public schools.

Matt