Something fails, and hurts children for 50 years. It has helped lawyers, however. Perhaps, the time is here for a change.

I think that classifying the decision that made it illegal for black children to be educated in legally enforced separation as a failure would imply that those children should not have that right. And I would venture to say that those children were hurt far more before 1954 than after...

Certainly Brown has not had the effect that it desired, but that is more due to further court decisions (see the Pitts, Milliken, and Jenkins decisions)than the bad decision of the court in 1954.

One of the litigants spoke on the radio today. She was a black mother. She had nothing against busing. She had nothing against white children.

She opposed low performing schools. Period.

The NAACP, left wing ideologue described a nightmare hell of political correctness as an aspiration.

He came off second to the cheery, common sense, moderate views of the SC case litigant.

Actually, the mother DID have something against busing--that was the point. The school that her child attended was not performing than the one she preferred, it was further away (10 miles v. 1 mile). The reason her son was forced to attend the further school was that she had missed the kindergarten enrollment deadline and her son was subject to the racial rules--an administrative mistake, as the rules usually did not apply to kindergarten students. When she applied for a transfer, she was granted one.

I'm sorry that you see integration as a nightmare hell of political correctness--I see it as vital to the well being of our society, and to preparing children for the diverse world that we live in.

And I would be cheery too, if I had just won a court case. I'll bet her views were not so positive when she lost in the lower courts.