VICTORY! Supreme Court Rejects School Race Plans

Only the Germans could paste together saw dust with blackstrap molasses and paving binder and call it "good bread." I suspect that the Germans are such naughty boys and girls that God has decided to punish them in perpetuity through the agency of their "cuisine."

Joe Nation wrote:

The Chief (of course, I am a respecter of precedent)Justice apparently cannot decern the difference between a system (prior to Brown) which used race to EXCLUDE children and those systems which were part of the the present case which used race as one factor to INCLUDE children.

What makes you think there is a constitutionally relevant difference? Inclusive or exclusive, the Supreme Court's equal protection jurisprudence compels that every race-based legal distinction must be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling government interest. In your opinion, what government interest was at stake in this case? Why was it compelling? And how was the school district's policy narrowly tailored to achieve it?

The Supreme Court has often ordered schools to use race-conscious remedies, and it has unanimously held that deciding to make assignments based on race "to prepare students to live in a pluralistic society" is "within the broad discretionary powers of school authorities."

Setanta wrote:

Among many more glaring examples of reprehensible public behavior (such as invading Poland at the drop of a hat), yes, Oktoberfest would be a good example.

So do you think that Americans who come to Germany and consume absolutely incredible amounts of beer do so in order to learn the art of invading-countries-at-the-drop-of-a-hat?

Only the Germans could paste together saw dust with blackstrap molasses and paving binder and call it "good bread." I suspect that the Germans are such naughty boys and girls that God has decided to punish them in perpetuity through the agency of their "cuisine."

PS: Has anybody started a grown-up discussion about the decision itself yet somewhere? If so, I'd be grateful for a link, as I don't find it.

Thomas wrote:

PS: Has anybody started a grown-up discussion about the decision itself yet somewhere? If so, I'd be grateful for a link, as I don't find it.

You haven't heard of any debates on the issue? For the last 40 - 50 years it has been almost a WAR over the issue.

Back in the 60's and 70's John Ashcroft was completely on the side OPPOSING the forced busing of poor black children into white neighborhoods. This has been such a major issue whole sections of states just up and left, moved 100 miles away from any non-white area so their children wouldn't be forced to be a minority elsewhere.


Didn't you hear about Little Rock Arkansas , the first school that was integrated by force, they had bring in the 101st Airborne US ARMY and use bayonets and kill some of the protectors that blocked the entrance to the first ever school integration in the 60's (not so long ago).

Over the last 40 years countless people such as John Ashcroft GROWNUPS have discussed the issue at length. Only now after 40-50 years of damage done to the young minds of blacks and whites equally, are they now not discriminating against both races. It is a good thing Bush & the supreme court took down the policy of turning away whites from being excluded from universities in favor of blacks, however there is still a RACIST policy of blacks getting jobs in favor of whites in the workplace called "Affirmative Action". Either way you look at it that is racism to prefer any race over the other in laws etc. Most companies run ads that just about say "if you're not white then dont apply"

People on here continually say , whites are NOTHING, whites are NOBODYS, whites are THE WORST. Well think of the backlash you would get if you continually called a black person a NOBODY, A NOTHING solely on the basis of his race. Equality is only decent & right. Whites aren't allowed any of our government funded Jesse Jacksons etc.

People on here continually say , whites are NOTHING, whites are NOBODYS, whites are THE WORST.

The decision today should not prevent school districts from continuing the important work of bringing together students of different racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. Due to a variety of factors -- some influenced by government, some not -- neighborhoods in our communities do not reflect the diversity of our Nation as a whole.

michael1 wrote:

Thomas wrote:

PS: Has anybody started a grown-up discussion about the decision itself yet somewhere? If so, I'd be grateful for a link, as I don't find it.

You haven't heard of any debates on the issue? For the last 40 - 50 years it has been almost a WAR over the issue.

Back in the 60's and 70's John Ashcroft was completely on the side OPPOSING the forced busing of poor black children into white neighborhoods. This has been such a major issue whole sections of states just up and left, moved 100 miles away from any non-white area so their children wouldn't be forced to be a minority elsewhere.


Didn't you hear about Little Rock Arkansas , the first school that was integrated by force, they had bring in the 101st Airborne US ARMY and use bayonets and kill some of the protectors that blocked the entrance to the first ever school integration in the 60's (not so long ago).

Over the last 40 years countless people such as John Ashcroft GROWNUPS have discussed the issue at length. Only now after 40-50 years of damage done to the young minds of blacks and whites equally, are they now not discriminating against both races. It is a good thing Bush & the supreme court took down the policy of turning away whites from being excluded from universities in favor of blacks, however there is still a RACIST policy of blacks getting jobs in favor of whites in the workplace called "Affirmative Action". Either way you look at it that is racism to prefer any race over the other in laws etc. Most companies run ads that just about say "if you're not white then dont apply"

People on here continually say , whites are NOTHING, whites are NOBODYS, whites are THE WORST. Well think of the backlash you would get if you continually called a black person a NOBODY, A NOTHING solely on the basis of his race. Equality is only decent & right. Whites aren't allowed any of our government funded Jesse Jacksons etc.

Are you suggesting that integration was wrong in the 60's?

I can sort of understand a point that it may no longer be needed today, but in the 60's you're disagreeing with the decision?

Heh heh. Mikey my boy you crack me up.
All this time conservatives have been telling me that all the -what was it?- "The skyrocketing crime , drugs and STDS, high school dropouts & disorder" were the fault of the hedonism.

Now here you are, and can prove I guess, that they were all the result of that black girl sitting next to your father in high school.

Joe(was it jungle fever?)Nation

Fine feed us all to the lions for having beliefs & morals. We're not to expect better treatment than Jesus received.

michael1 wrote:

Fine feed us all to the lions for having beliefs & morals. We're not to expect better treatment than Jesus received.

Michael, you are not living according to the bible. You have just spouted off judgement after judgement on people who do not hold your faith, and even those who do.

At least you're prepared with your sword of god and the cross/shield to protect you. How 13th centuary of you.