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]]> By: A http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2007/09/re-segregation-in-alabama#comment-5312 A Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:07:17 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2007/09/re-segregation-in-alabama#comment-5312 Just to point out, the one thing that is helping these people switch back into better schools is the No Child Left Behind Law that the Bush Administration put into place, without that law it would be a lot harder for the children who had been transfered to get back to the better schools Just to point out, the one thing that is helping these people switch back into better schools is the No Child Left Behind Law that the Bush Administration put into place, without that law it would be a lot harder for the children who had been transfered to get back to the better schools

]]> By: mick http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2007/09/re-segregation-in-alabama#comment-4972 mick Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:26:50 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2007/09/re-segregation-in-alabama#comment-4972 Well, I don't know if this is a Republican thing or not. I'm not even sure it's racism on the part of the superintendent and school board. One can sort of assume that, Alabama being as Red a state as it is, the deciders are probably Pubs but I don't know that for sure. Seems to me the school board was in a bind and wasn't willing to risk more white flight. It could have been, from their POV, a very practical decision rather than a racist one. But.... My point was - is - that the plan came from a fear of and therefore a kowtowing to a racist sensibility that still exists, and not just in Alabama. I live in Democratic New England and my local cities - Boston, Worcester, Providence - have all experienced white flight from and overcrowding in their school systems. They have not chosen to deal with the problem by shifting only black students, but then the racial percentages in our systems are nearly the reverse of Tuscaloosa's. Some of the systems are still under court order, and that has something to do with it, too. (Desegregation orders in Tuscaloosa were removed by Republican judges in 2001.) What I'm arguing against is the totally erroneous view that because Jim Crow laws were struck down, racism no longer exists and that we can ignore all the safeguards we've put in place over the last 40 years and go back to the laissez-faire we used to have, like, after the Civil War. And for spreading <i>that</i> argument, an argument that comes exclusively from Republicans and has for at least 25 yrs, the GOP is responsible for supporting and encouraging racism instead of fighting it. Well, I don’t know if this is a Republican thing or not. I’m not even sure it’s racism on the part of the superintendent and school board. One can sort of assume that, Alabama being as Red a state as it is, the deciders are probably Pubs but I don’t know that for sure.

Seems to me the school board was in a bind and wasn’t willing to risk more white flight. It could have been, from their POV, a very practical decision rather than a racist one. But….

My point was - is - that the plan came from a fear of and therefore a kowtowing to a racist sensibility that still exists, and not just in Alabama. I live in Democratic New England and my local cities - Boston, Worcester, Providence - have all experienced white flight from and overcrowding in their school systems. They have not chosen to deal with the problem by shifting only black students, but then the racial percentages in our systems are nearly the reverse of Tuscaloosa’s. Some of the systems are still under court order, and that has something to do with it, too. (Desegregation orders in Tuscaloosa were removed by Republican judges in 2001.)

What I’m arguing against is the totally erroneous view that because Jim Crow laws were struck down, racism no longer exists and that we can ignore all the safeguards we’ve put in place over the last 40 years and go back to the laissez-faire we used to have, like, after the Civil War.

And for spreading that argument, an argument that comes exclusively from Republicans and has for at least 25 yrs, the GOP is responsible for supporting and encouraging racism instead of fighting it.

]]> By: Kyle E. Moore http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2007/09/re-segregation-in-alabama#comment-4947 Kyle E. Moore Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:58:13 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2007/09/re-segregation-in-alabama#comment-4947 Looks like I should have held off a little bit before I did my Get The Hint post. Looks like I should have held off a little bit before I did my Get The Hint post.

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