Brown vs. Board, Govt. vs. People:

[bergsteiger]

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Brown vs. Board, Govt. vs. People: The Curious Course Of The Desegregation Wars
By F. Roger Devlin

If you’re like me, you learned that “segregation” was an unmitigated evil before you were old enough to pronounce the word correctly. A whole generation of us got our first lesson in Constitutional jurisprudence from the early 1970s rock group Three Dog Night—

The ink is black
The page is white
Together we learn to read and write
The child is black
The child is white
The whole world looks upon the sight
The beautiful sight

And now a child can understand
That this is the law of all the land
All the land…

Even sober legal scholars lapse into religious language when dealing with Brown vs. the Board of Education. “The justices of the Supreme Court,” according to Law Professor Michael J. Perry as cited by historian Raymond Wolters in his new book Race and Education 1954-2007, “were modern ‘prophets’ selected by an ‘American Israel’ and authorized to strike down laws they deemed mistaken.” [The Constitution, the Courts, and Human Rights, 1982]

[novillero]

This is one of those things in history that is unquestionable: the decision was good, just and great in every single way. To question it is to be ignorant or racist.

But, the decision had little, or absolutely no, legal backing. As the article pointed out, it was based on based psychology, anthropolgy and sociology.

Here is the great underlying logic of the logic: Black kids are inferior unless they are with white kids. To take this logic a step furhter, blacks are on the whole inferior. "Separate but equal" was changed to "together, but inferior."

And the school desegregation had horrible effects: shipping kids to far off schools instead of neighboring schools to satisfy quotas; and of course, racial tensions. The real welfare of the child was often overlooked in favor of statistics.

Many historians will point out that after WWII desegregation was going to happen on its own without government interference. But when you force something upon a person, the natural reaction is to stand against it.

[bergsteiger]

"And the school desegregation had horrible effects: shipping kids to far off schools instead of neighboring schools to satisfy quotas; and of course, racial tensions. The real welfare of the child was often overlooked in favor of statistics."


I was a victim of Forced Integration