Oh! I get it. You're in one southern state three times a year and feel that you're well-versed on all of them!!! Too bad you're dead wrong.

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No, on a typical trip I spend time in 5.


So please show me that the South was not the last region of the US to mandate a public school system?


www.sefatl.org/pdf/headstart_brief.pdf -

State: Schools still rank near the bottom - 38k

Perhaps you should read these, also, if you'd like.

DCBA Brief, June 2004 - Brown: A Big Step in America’s Slow Journey To Equality - 32k

Another discussion of Southern Public Ed.

Note the correlation between race and lack of public support.

Never said it wasn't genius.

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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

I know, poor baby. But you can't run to Uncle Sammy any more to kiss it and make it all better. It would be an HONOR to be on your 'Ignore List'. Thank you! In the mean time please ignore this:

FORCED segregation is OVER, and will NOT be reinstated, EVER! Everyone has the RIGHT to live or not live anywhere they want. FORCING people to conform to your social engineering is coming to an end.

If it's 'race' based it's a racist policy. Plain and simple. Forced segregation has ended. Stop trying to force people to conform to your ideology.

Yup, it sure does!

Ah, the classic Liberal whine. 50 years of liberal social engineering and the nation is just as divided as ever, and in many cases even more so. I guess the lesson there is...'We need MORE liberal social engineering. Yeah, that's it!

Again, FORCED segregation is over. What you can't tolerate is people thinking for themselves and making personal choices over their own lives and deciding where they WANT to live.

Oh this is precious! The classic Victimist quote. All blacks living today were slaves, and all whites living today were slave masters. That's a whole lotta really, really old people running around. Keep'm thinking that ol' massa is gonna chain 'em up and get back on the plantation. Your a perfect example of 'Liberal Racism'!

That "legacy" was something to do about not judging people on the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I'd say he got it right, and so did the Supreme Court.

Correction: "When there is [FORCED] segregation something must be done."

Funny, I remember some black people who refused to except Asians as equals in their neighborhoods and either shot them dead, or burned down their stores. I think that also happened in LA a few years ago. It's like the 'Rainbow Coalition' idea of diversity...Any color in the rainbow, so long as it's black.

For you it maybe. Everyone else will have to earn their place through hard work and merit.

Ah, were back on the plantation again! LOL! Always living in the past.... Someone elses past.

'Promoting' and 'forcing' are two different things. Here's an idea, let people think for themselves. One of the freedoms we have is 'freedom of thought'. And the RIGHT to socialize with whom ever we please.

Like I said, all you can do now is go pound sand.

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How is it anything other than racist for the government to say to a kid, "You may not go to this school, you must go to that one because of your race."?

It may be racism with best of intentions, but it is racism none-the-less. Someone is being discriminated against by the government because they're the wrong color. That's not OK with me.

faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect11.htm - 28k - Cached .

Too bad Mr. Diaz's America exists only on paper.

No no. You ignore a very very important factor to make it sound like you got it all figured out.

It means white neighborhoods go to rich white schools and poor black neighborhoods go to poor black schools. It means that kids that grow up don't learn diversity and you know what I'm saying is right and how you force yourself to disagree with me is a hint of racism because how can anyone disagree to that?

It is positive integration not hateful racism. DON'T EVER CONFUSE THE TWO OR COMPARE THEM.

How do you explain the diversity in the schools in my city?

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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

Brown v. Board of Education. That's how I explain it. Any other ingenious questions?

When I was in school, we only had two high schools and they were divided by district. If you lived on the north side of town, rich or poor, black or white, you went to Slidell High. If you lived on the south side, rich or poor, black or white, you went to Salmen High. Due to population growth, we now have another high school but it's also mixed with rich and poor, black and white.

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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

But, he posted a fairly accurate "Cliff's Notes" version of Southern history up through at least the late 1960s.

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Thomas Jefferson

Before Katrina, did you involve New Orleans' 9th Ward in your "community?" Did you have 'em over for BBQs & ice-cream socials & such?

Yeah, I didn't fuckin' think so.

And wasn't it you who, just a few months back, was bitchin' about all your new neighbors? Some "community" you got down there. . .

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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither breaks my leg, nor picks my pocket."

Thomas Jefferson

And someone from the Bay is an expert?

My family roots are in the South in an old plantation town. I DO know what the fuck I'M talking about. Segregation & racism are most CERTAINLY alive & well in the South. And this ruling will help ensure it stays that way. . .

Wasn't it just two years ago that the geniuses over in Columbus, Georgia proposed a "white prom" and a "black prom?" Some sense of community.

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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither breaks my leg, nor picks my pocket."

Thomas Jefferson

Oh my god. Okay Mrs. M, your city is perfect just like all the other cities in this nation. Racism doesn't exist in this country and diversity in schools just happenes by itself.

What am I missing here? Please make additions if I forgot any of your points.