Concern Over De Facto School Segregation = "Non-White White Supremacy"

Alternet: The New Racial Segregation at Public Schools

In 1990 over 40 percent of black students in the South attended majority-white schools. Now less than 30 percent of students do — 1960s numbers.

My observation in regards to the call for school integration shows that when it comes to the "balance of trade" between the races:

• The Black student receives the material benefit of attending a school with White people where the prevailing culture and order creates an environment that is more conducive toward academic performance and thus the Black student benefits
• The White student's benefits are more ethereal in nature.  Just as a line in a recent movie where a White female took in an abandoned Black male: "I was made a better person from the experience", the White children's consciousness is enriched because by interacting with actual Black people our humanity is shown to them.

I am going to be honest with you about my increased awareness.  After listening to a few Black talk radio shows on Atlanta's WAOK AM yesterday and listening to some of the callers - I am willing to give additional credence to the need to turn one's "enemies at a distance who have claws and fangs" into a real human being rather than someone who is seeking to cut your throat at every turn.   I felt remorse that my previous term of "racism under every rock" as expressed by the racism chasers was a perfect description of this caller.  His "hatred", however, was justified by the "hatred" as initiated by his adversary.  There is no doubt that this same type of hatred is abundant in the domain of White people as well.

In the question of school integration today we are clearly dealing with the residential association preferences of particular groups.  If there is no illegal suppression of one's right to access public accommodations I am not inclined to use the government to use its power to reengineer these free choices of individual people.

The burden must be upon the community or school system to identify the outcomes that they desire and to manage the "human resources" - parents and students and community members - to develop a standard of education that is appealing to their interests.