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Your report on my talk at Hillel House (CRIMSON, March 23) does not misrepresent what I said, but neither does it convey the central point of my remarks or the reasoning behind my objection to compulsory bussing as a solution to the difficult problem of de facto segregation in the...
With respect to de facto segregation in the schools, I first presented the argument of those opposed to the bussing of pupils in the following terms:
"Where segregation of public facilities is not the result of a deliberate policy, required by law, it is not at all clear that the clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteeing the 'equal protection of the laws' on which the Supreme Court relied in the Brown decision can possibly be violated...
> The first successful suit in the U.S. against school segregation occurred not in the South of the 1950s but in Boston in 1849.
Lakoff did approve other civil rights measures, however. He explained that the argument which declares "you can't legislate morality" is fairly weak, especially in view of traditional child labor, prostitution, and health and building laws. The "moral issue of ethnic segregation" is certainly as important as these, Lakoff said...