Comments on: Things on My Mind http://moorethoughts.com/2007/06/29/things-on-my-mind/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: jon http://moorethoughts.com/2007/06/29/things-on-my-mind/#comment-130739 jon Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:45:11 +0000 http://moorethoughts.com/2007/06/29/things-on-my-mind/#comment-130739 The 5-4 decision told local school districts that they cannot take even modest steps to overcome residential segregation. Justice Breyer: "You’ve got to be kidding me . . . Never in the history of the court have so few done so much so quickly." Justice Stevens: "Chief Justice John Roberts writes, “Before Brown, schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin.” The Chief Justice fails to note that it was only black schoolchildren who were so ordered; indeed, the history books do not tell stories of white children struggling to attend black schools. In this and other ways, the Chief Justice rewrites the history of one of this Court’s most important decisions." - Refering to Brown vs Board of Education. Gov. George Wallace would be proud The 5-4 decision told local school districts that they cannot take even modest steps to overcome residential segregation.

Justice Breyer: “You’ve got to be kidding me . . . Never in the history of the court have so few done so much so quickly.”

Justice Stevens: “Chief Justice John Roberts writes, “Before Brown, schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin.” The Chief Justice fails to note that it was only black schoolchildren who were so ordered; indeed, the history books do not tell stories of white children struggling to attend black schools. In this and other ways, the Chief Justice rewrites the history of one of this Court’s most important decisions.” - Refering to Brown vs Board of Education.

Gov. George Wallace would be proud

]]> By: Sean Braisted http://moorethoughts.com/2007/06/29/things-on-my-mind/#comment-130468 Sean Braisted Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:59:20 +0000 http://moorethoughts.com/2007/06/29/things-on-my-mind/#comment-130468 Please, do elaborate...I'm struggling to see how eliminating a plan to create racial diversity, won't lead to de facto segregation? Please, do elaborate…I’m struggling to see how eliminating a plan to create racial diversity, won’t lead to de facto segregation?

]]> By: Nathan Moore http://moorethoughts.com/2007/06/29/things-on-my-mind/#comment-130251 Nathan Moore Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:43:11 +0000 http://moorethoughts.com/2007/06/29/things-on-my-mind/#comment-130251 Just the opposite, actually. Just the opposite, actually.

]]> By: Sean Braisted http://moorethoughts.com/2007/06/29/things-on-my-mind/#comment-130239 Sean Braisted Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:06:39 +0000 http://moorethoughts.com/2007/06/29/things-on-my-mind/#comment-130239 <i>As promised, more on that later, but the roll back of McCain-Feingold and the delegitimizing of race as a school districting factor are both good decisions and bode well for the next term.</i> Three cheers for de facto segregation!! As promised, more on that later, but the roll back of McCain-Feingold and the delegitimizing of race as a school districting factor are both good decisions and bode well for the next term.

Three cheers for de facto segregation!!

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