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Integration in Schools

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Michael Meyer has a NY Daily News op-ed decrying some New York charter schools that happen to be mostly black: Today marks 55 years since the Supreme Court outlawed intentionally racially segregated public schools, declaring that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."Back then, blacks welcomed the news that we would never again have to "prove" that segregation harms black children in ways unlikely ever to be undone - as demonstrated persuasively by my mentor Kenneth Clark's breakthrough experiments using black and white dolls.All that is yesterday's headline. Today liberals of all skin colors cheer all-black schools and separate classes for boys and girls as the means to the end of raising these children's "self-esteem" in their "race" (race is a term I don't believe in) and gender...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).