Today’s Los Angeles Times has long, fascinating look at the painful experience of Inglewood, California, with “forced integration” in the 1970s.
The legal question, I think, is whether Brown v. Board of Education required the policy pursued in Inglewood. The more interesting question is whether or not that policy was a good idea, whether it worked. Since those who were subject to that social experiment had and have conflicting views on that question, I suspect others will, too.
“A child is not born a racist, but rather racism is a learned social phenomenon, via family, education, religion, the law, and the media. It is difficult to grow up in society without adopting the worldviews and biases of the society.”
http://www.uc.edu/psc/sh/SH_Racism.htm
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Society is people, it’s not the trees or the wind. All people have biases. What’s radical about the west is that people think bigotry is wrong. Most people in the world don’t think so. This is why “minorities” in third world countries are far worse off than minorities have been here for decades or more. I recently met a man from Cuba, a black man. He says that blacks are half the population there, their status is much lower than blacks here, and the idea of having a civil rights movement is unthinkable there. I think it’s important to realize that racism is a human evil. It was not invented by any particular group