So you're for volitional segregation but forced integration. How, exactly, does that work? You get to segregate when and where you wish -- except when the government tells you that you can't?

As to the story of the all black schools, I think it was a 60 Minutes segment.

As to "diversity" and "multiculturalism" I just don't care. I don't think you could STOP our country from being multi-cultural. I'm all for learning the best that any subculture has to offer. I don't give a damn if some subculture wants to participate in some practice as long as it doesn't adversely affect me or my rights. I'm part of a subculture -- Christian. I don't expect ANYONE to take communion with me.

Bobert,

I am the king of the typo. I rarely, if ever, submit a post without a typo in it. But even I cannot understand a word of your last post.

I think that what you are proposing, though, is that a person cannot be simultaneously against forced integration (in any way), and not be a racist. That is a false choice.

And, in fact, there is far more racist thought and intent (albeit unwitting) in the "well-meaning" forced integration. Forced integration is almost always proposed by those who think one or another group (usually blacks) are incapable of thriving on their own without governmental aid.

The only time when forced integration makes sense is when it has to do with equal access to goods and services provided by the government. And in that case, race plays very little role.

And, curiously, those goods and services provided by the government also have very little to do with good education. I live in a county where the smallest, poorest elementary school was WAY outstripping the other schools in the county, despite a fifty-year-old facility and the poorest kids in the county. In fact, that poorest school ranked as one of the top scholastically in the State -- while the other, newer schools with the rich kids did not make the list of top schools in the State.

Curiously, it became an embarrassment to the school administrators -- it flew in the face of asking for ever more money that the least provided for school performed the best. So they closed that school and integrated the children into the other schools. Now the poorest kids in the county have the farthest to travel each day to schools where they no longer get the attention that they did in their old school. But the blessed school board no longer faces the embarrassment of an over-achieving, under-funded school.