Brown v. Board Fails: Resegregation is Accidentally on Purpose #Brownat60
Since it’s inception the United States has enacted and supported racially discriminatory policies. On May 17, 1954, the US Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing racial segregation in our nation’s schools. Brown overturned the doctrine of “separate but equal,” which the Court had established in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson. Brown marked a turning point…
Fast forward to May 17, 2014… the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education…
Nevada “rancher” Cliven Bundy and current L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling are not racist. At least that would they would have you believe. Cliven Bundy stated to CNN:
At least a half-dozen (black) people sitting on the porch, they didn’t have nothing to do.Because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he added in comments first reported by The New York Times and later seen on video. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton.And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.
Bundy’s “apology” to CNN was:
Maybe I sinned, and maybe I need to ask forgiveness, and maybe I don’t know what I actually said, but when you talk about prejudice, we’re talking about not being able to exercise what we think. … If I say Negro or black boy or slave, if those people cannot take those kind of words and not be (offended), then Martin Luther King hasn’t got his job done yetWe need to get over this prejudice stuff.
Donald Sterling, LA Clipper owner, also has been in the news recently. The conversation that his mistress taped Brown v. Board Fails: Resegregation is Accidentally on Purpose #Brownat60 | Cloaking Inequity: