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To: SilentZ who wrote (735836)	8/29/2013 5:54:39 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578460

Colorado’s grass-roots revolt against the gun-grabbers

To: SilentZ who wrote (735836)	8/29/2013 5:55:27 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1578460

Holder vs. Martin Luther King Jr online.wsj.com REVIEW & OUTLOOK August 27, 2013 Article: Give Eric Holder credit for cognitive racial dissonance. On nearly the same day the Attorney General spoke in Washington to honor the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, his Justice Department sued to block the educational dreams of minority children in Louisiana. Late last week, Justice asked a federal court to stop 34 school districts in the Pelican State from handing out private-school vouchers so kids can escape failing public schools. Mr. Holder's lawyers claim the voucher program appears "to impede the desegregation progress" required under federal law. Justice provides little evidence to support this claim, but there couldn't be a clearer expression of how the civil-rights establishment is locked in a 1950s time warp. Passed in 2012, Louisiana's state-wide program guarantees a voucher to students from families with incomes below 250% of poverty and who attend schools graded C or below. The point is to let kids escape the segregation of failed schools, and about 90% of the beneficiaries are black. But Justice is more worried about the complexion of the schools' student body than their manifest failure to educate. During the 2012-13 school year, about 10% of voucher recipients came from 22 districts that remain under desegregation orders from 50 or so years ago. For example, says the complaint, in several of those 22 districts "the voucher recipients were in the racial minority at the public school they attended before receiving the voucher." In other words, Justice is claiming that the voucher program may be illegal because minority kids made their failing public schools more white by leaving those schools to go to better private schools. In one of only two specific examples in its footnotes, Justice says that Celilia Primary School (30.1% black) in St. Martin Parish District (46.5% black) lost all of six black voucher recipients. Justice claims the reduction in black students at Celilia increases "the difference between the school's black student percentage from the district's and reinforcing the school's racial identity as a white school in a predominantly black school district." Since when is 46.5% predominantly black? All of this is even more dubious because the evidence from around the country is that vouchers enhance racial integration. Public school attendance is mainly determined by geography, so segregated neighborhoods produce segregated schools. Vouchers help poor minorities escape those boundaries to attend schools they otherwise couldn't. Seven of eight studies that have examined vouchers in Milwaukee, Cleveland and Washington, D.C., found that private schools that recipients attend are more diverse than public schools. In any case, segregation is hardly the main obstacle to learning that it was for minority children in the days of "separate but equal." Today's civil-rights outrage is the millions of poor kids who can't escape failing schools whatever their racial make up. Full Story

To: SilentZ who wrote (735836)	8/29/2013 6:07:08 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578460

Z, That very well may be the silliest solution to racism I have ever heard. Really. This is why you will always be part of the problem instead of part of the solution. All you care about is how you feel. You don't care about practical solutions because in your mind they're silly and won't solve the whole problem. You don't get how stuff like this helps melt the ice, build bridges, and create human relationships because you don't give a fuck. Once again, it's that white guilt thing. Tenchusatsu