The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102927   Message #2102954
Posted By: Kent Davis
15-Jul-07 - 12:17 AM
Thread Name: BS: Education, Race 'n Community...
Subject: RE: BS: Education, Race 'n Community...
Riginslinger,
I realize that the word "segregation" is sometimes used to describe a situation in which there is a a large preponderance of one race, without regard to the cause. Thus, one might say that the northern part of Manhattan, the National Basketall Association, Mudcat, bluegrass music, and Norway are "segregated". However, they are not segregated in the Jim Crow sense of being legally mandated to exclude members of a given race. The point I was trying to make is that it is not an accurate representation of the recent Supreme Court decision to make statements such as the esteemed Mr. Bobert's opening salvo: "Just when we thought that ol' Jim was long dead seems that the Robert's Court has resurrented him with their decision that intergration is just way too much a bother..."
If you favor government mandates to balance the racial demographics of schools, or of neighborhoods, or of Mudcat, I respectfully ask that you not call everyone who disagrees a segregationist.
Kent Davis