Onyx, I hope I understand what you're saying and take your post as it was intended,
and I'm very sympathetic to arguments about "90 min of busing".
So I'm really wanting to not say anything that's taken an attack upon you or your post.
And I agree with the business about the PC of race vs class.
It is very
Non-PC for someone or something to be explicitly called "racist".
Hence "class" and "diversity" are becoming the PC language of the day.
The problem of "de jur vs de facto" has been the focus over the past 60 years
via ridding the nation of the "de jur".
But we have found no real solution for the "de facto"
The nuts and bolts are well described in your post:
Quote:
Historically, the desegregation laws were a good thing,
and coming from a good place, namely a desire to integrate kids.
I'm down with that. But it's been 60 years, and while I'm not naiv
enough to believe that racism is dead, I'm also of the firm belief that
we should NOT be busing kids 90 minutes each way to a different
middle school BASED ON RACE.
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Do we, as a nation, still have "namely a desire to integrate kids"
Is a good thing or not. Why do we believe that ?
How can we arrange for kids to go to school with and play with their friends.
That's the irony and anger in the two situations of my original post, Ohio and North Carolina.