Word: racially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editor of the piece not notice the cruel racism implied when Hsia spoke of "normal, integrated activity"? Surely, logic does not demand that a person can only be considered well-adjusted or "normal" when socializing with a person of a different racial or social background. Of course, if that is the case, then there are multitudes of athletes, or professors, who are maladjusted, for many can often be seen dining among themselves...
Though Atwater claims the country has already "entered into a post-civil rights era; civil rights are not the driving force," racial politics are still with us. As demonstrated by the continuing southern white switch to the Republican Party and the heavy Black vote for civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, civil rights are still an issue...
...other parents and educators throughout the U.S. are against it, including the four black members of the Boston school committee. Last week those members tried and failed to defeat a new plan that will allow Boston's parents to choose where their children go to school, as long as racial balance is maintained...
Currently most school districts tell parents which public school their children must attend. It could be a school down the block or one across town in need of better racial balance. The problem, critics argue, is that parents have no say, and even bad schools are rewarded with full student bodies and tax revenues. That is beginning to change. In locations as diverse as New York's East Harlem, San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass., parents are now free to select what they judge to be the best public school in their district. Minnesota goes even further. It is phasing...
...permission to move their children from schools they do not like to ones they do. Under some open-enrollment plans, parents are limited to the choices located in their district; under others, they can select from among schools in neighboring districts as well. In either case, the desire for racial balance can restrict the choice of schools...