Brown vs. Board of Education —- What its death means
July 1st, 2007 by 
Gerald Plessner
Posted in Clarence Thomas, George Bush, Race & Class, U.S. Supreme Court, Uncategorized | 
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July 1st, 2007 by Gerald Plessner
I spent 16 years in education never having been in a classroom with a student of color (except for two Korean veterans of the Korean War) so I remember “separate but equal” education.The historic Brown vs. Board of Education decision, in which the U. S. Supreme Court decided that separate but equal was in truth separate and grossly unequal, happened in my young lifetime. I have vivid recollections of life in Midwestern America both before and after America tried to eliminate racial segregation in public schools.My home town of Richmond Heights, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, contained a small African-American enclave in an otherwise all-white city. High school students from that neighborhood got on their own bus each morning to be driven right past our whites-only high school to a blacks-only high school in Webster Groves, the next suburb. (I have no idea where their grade school students got their education.)
America has made great strides since then by providing integrated education, despite the failures of many innovations and the resistance of conservative, racist and frightened opposition. In doing so we have encouraged an open society, enabling all kinds of American youngsters — white, black and otherwise — to learn more, learn about each other, to have better jobs and live better lives.
Now an ultra-conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has advanced a process to disassemble all of that and their first, most blatant attack on our efforts to enable ALL children to get the best education possible has shown them for what they are. Read the rest of this entry »