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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (819)1/6/2001 6:42:02 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (4) of 59480
 
As I have posted many times, I grew up in the deep South prior to integration. I remember the line on public buses - white people sat in front, black people behind, and if the bus got full then white people could sit behind the line and black people stood up. Even old, feeble black people stood up to let young, healthy white people sit down.

In our school system, at the end of the year, we would put all the torn up school books in a box and those were sent to the black schools. They didn't get new books. This was as late as 1967 (maybe 1966 - I don't remember the exact year schools were finally integrated in Baton Rouge but I went to the first integrated high school the first year it was integrated).

The way black people were treated was horrible. Their schools were horrible, the physical condition of black schools themselves was horrible, the teachers themselves had attended inferior schools and had inferior educations. The effects of such injustice and systemic inequality don't just vanish overnight.

For years I had no problem with affirmative action to help black people overcome generations of such treatment.

But I don't think it should be a permanent institution - and I think after 30 years its time has come.

P.S. It wasn't forcing white kids to go to school with black kids that caused their parents to take them out of the public school system - it was forcing them to attend the awful schols in black neighborhoods and be taught by inadequately prepared black teachers - the chickens came home to roost with a vengeance.
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