Next stop Brown vs Board of Education?

[the cac mamba]

Brown vs. Board hardly even matters at this point. Residential segregation in many places is extreme enough that school segregation already happens by default.

yep

shyt, im up north and i bet that schools up north are more segregated than schools down south

 

[ORDER_66]

people keep mentioning voting and faulting us for not voting but in a majority of states black folks are NOT the majority your vote does NOT count... case in point look at the legislation that passed in florida for giving felons the right to vote, that shyt was overturned by the white majority republicans in that state!!! you can vote to your hearts content but if we are NOT the majority you think your vote gonna count...???

What can we do as a citizen if brown vs BOE is overturned by the surpreme court when the judges hand picked by the president and the republicans now have all the power???
You think voting gonna save you???

 

[Secure Da Bag]

you can vote to your hearts content but if we are NOT the majority you think your vote gonna count...???

You think voting gonna save you???

This explains it all.

 

[88m3]

So we're better off before Brown vs Board of Education is what you're all saying.


After that they'll probably move on to the Civil Rights Act and dismantle it and you guys will be okay with that too?

 

[ORDER_66]

So we're better off before Brown vs Board of Education is what you're all saying.


After that they'll probably move on to the Civil Rights Act and dismantle it and you guys will be okay with that too?

No one is okay with it... but what can we do??? Like I keep saying we are not the majority they keep getting into positions of power because cacs hold all the cards... nothing short of an ELE is gonna stop these cacs from trying to turn back time....

 

[Professor Emeritus]

people keep mentioning voting and faulting us for not voting but in a majority of states black folks are NOT the majority your vote does NOT count... case in point look at the legislation that passed in florida for giving felons the right to vote, that shyt was overturned by the white majority republicans in that state!!! you can vote to your hearts content but if we are NOT the majority you think your vote gonna count...???

What can we do as a citizen if brown vs BOE is overturned by the surpreme court when the judges hand picked by the president and the republicans now have all the power???
You think voting gonna save you???

Black population is large enough in many states to force the Democrats' hand and determine the type of candidate they'll run. Not necessarily dictate a platform from scratch, but definitely help determine who comes out of the primaries or via turnout determine whether or not Dems can win in the general.

The whole neoliberal movement, people like the Clintons and Kerry and Biden and to some extent Obama, was built off of the idea that big business should be catered to and everyone else ignored, the assumption that they would just work things out and the voters would continue to fall in line. They should never, ever be allowed to get away with that again. Democrats should explicitly be about siding with marginalized and disempowered people and ensuring that power is distributed fairly in our society, or they should be discarded and replaced by a better party

So we're better off before Brown vs Board of Education is what you're all saying.

After that they'll probably move on to the Civil Rights Act and dismantle it and you guys will be okay with that too?

No one has said that, and even if they did, it would be irrelevant because you can't turn back the clock.

What we are saying is that overturning Brown v Board wouldn't even be a big deal at this point in history as those who would wish to overturn it have already accomplished most of what they wanted through other means, partially by neutering Brown in the courts (the end of mandatory busing or integration across an entire district) and partially by extreme residential segregation.

Let's say they overturned Board. So? What would happen? Would schools literally kick black students out? Of course not - for the most part the only effect would be that people fighting against segregation would have one less tool to use against school districts that have been doing underhanded, indirect means of promoting segregation...and the truth is that the courts have been siding with them so consistently that Brown is rarely working as a tool at all. There are only a handful of districts it would seriously effect.

Anyway, my statement was meant more as a lament of the current situation in America than trying to make any broader point about what happens with Brown.

 

[Pressure]

Actually a court case back in 1999 by some Charlotte Mecklenburg school system parents has been one of the largest movers back towards segregation of schools.

 

[Sohh_lifted]

and since we're talking politics and race/class.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...?utm_term=.c96d32b710c3&wpisrc=nl_cage&wpmm=1

and for the record notice how latins start voting when they are rich. why is that? well for one, a lot of these latins are just white people that speak spanish born in spanish speaking countries. argentina comes to mind and is full of white people(a lot of hitlers homies ran to argentina after the war to escape). These are not native people of those areas. some of them are not even that mixed with the native folks. they are 100% european.[/QUOTE]

People need to realize this more and more. Just cause one is Latino does not mean they associate with being black or brown, shyt most are the opposite.