Word: segregationism
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AND LO, IT CAME TO PASS LAST WEEK THAT 219 YEARS after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all men are created equal, 132 years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, 41 years after the Supreme Court struck down segregation and three months after Mississippi ratified the 13th Amendment, the...
Even those legal scholars who think Thomas would have voted to outlaw segregation believe he would have done so in such a way as to severely hobble the drive toward racial equality. "He takes a more limited view than any other justice for the past 40 years of the proper...
Indeed, Thomas last week attacked the logic of the Brown decision in his concurring opinion on Missouri v. Jenkins. In that decision the court overturned a federal judge's order that the state continue to fund lavish "magnet" schools in Kansas City because test scores at predominantly black schools still...
Still, the segregation of the two is a tempting, and even a feasible, alternative in a university setting. This response is less satisfactory on the personal level. Feeling the necessity of action yet admiring the benefits of intellectual questioning. I want to abandon neither. Maintaining both qualities will be , I...
I can understand the administration's decision to tamper with the housing lottery. Self-segregation based on interests and ethnic background may be an understandable human phenomena, but it is not a pleasant one for people who hope to live in a pluralistic society. And so I would agree with...