Read John Rosenberg’s entire blog post, titled “Busing Redux and the Misunderstanding of Brown.” Here is a sample,
What I would like to discuss, however, is neither the motives of the Wake County school board nor the merits of busing versus neighborhood schools ? whether the racial or class ?diversity? it is said to provide produces greater educational benefits than costs. Local communities are capable of making that choice for themselves, and should be free to do so (and free from hectoring in the national press) so long as what they choose violates no constitutional rights such as assigning students by race. Instead, what I think deserves attention is how liberal politicians and their allies in the mainstream media misuse the term segregation, fundamentally misunderstand the meaning of Brown v. Board of Education, and hence misinform the public time after time about the issues involved in debates over busing like the one in Wake County.
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Because one hears Brown cited so often by liberals as the authority for the necessity of engineering ?diversity,? i.e., of classifying and assigning students by race, it is worth emphasizing here that the Brown plaintiffs explicitly rejected this view, despite the contrary view of some of their surviving lawyers, as I discussed at length in Historical Brown-Out.
The above selections do not do Mr. Rosenberg’s analysis justice, so just go to the website and read it for yourself.
If you need some background on the issue, read “How We Got Here” by John Hood.
HT: GL
