Integration Discrimination

THE CHANGED COURT
New look at school integration

LOUISVILLE - Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. made it sound so simple that day in 2007, when he and four other members of the Supreme Court declared that this city's efforts to desegregate its schools violated the Constitution.

"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race," Roberts wrote, "is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."

But life has been anything but simple for school officials here. They have steadfastly - or stubbornly, depending on the point of view - tried to maintain integrated classrooms despite the court's command that officials not consider race when assigning children to schools.

Justice Clarence Thomas, the court's only African American, agreed. He denounced government's "racial paternalism" even if for worthy motives. "If our history has taught us anything, it has taught us to beware of elites bearing racial theories."

I rarely make comments on this blog, but this is one of those times: Dave Chappelle<, please come back to the world of entertainment. 

You see, when I read this article, I had visions of a Chappelle skit.  He is how it went:

Reparations had just been passed into law.  Anyone who was black was eligible to receive tax credits. For sake of the story, let's say $1 million.

Everyone in the United States applied and claimed eligibility under the "one drop" rule. 


Who would not claim to be black to get a million dollars. Overnight, the program would collapse because everyone in the country applied.  (The same thing happened to a Brazilian black program.  Everyone claimed black heritage and applied.  The program went belly up.)



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