Posted on 07/02/2007 5:16:00 PM PDT by lancer256
Based on their consistent behavior in recent years, and specifically again in their presidential debate last Thursday, it is fair to ask whether there is any race-sensitive situation Democrats will not exploit for political purposes.
The Supreme Court's decision last week involving the public schools' use of race to achieve diversity was just too tempting to pass up. The respective candidates' reactions spawned a grotesque competition among them to see which was the best demagogue.
These candidates surely understand that the Court's ruling in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 et al, did not -- let me repeat -- did not overrule the Court's landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.
In Brown, the Court held that forced segregation of the races in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In the Parents case, the Supreme Court did not reverse itself on the issue of segregation, which was not even at issue.
The Parents case involved two separate school districts, in Seattle, Wash., and Jefferson County, Ky., both of which voluntarily adopted student assignment plans that allocated children to different public schools based solely on their race. The Supreme Court held that such plans violated the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection guarantee.
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Somebody even said this decision has the effect of overturning the Brown decision. Of course that’s a huge exaggeration.
That’s how some liberals think. They think that any restriction on their favorite policies are the end of the world and chipping away at rights, and all that.
When the Supreme Court recently upheld the ban on partial birth abortion, Rosie O’Donnell said that “it’s as if the women’s movement never happened” with regard to abortion rights. Of course abortion on demand is still the law of the land, except for certain specific cases such as this. But Rosie goes off the deep end and is convinced she will have to resort to a coat hanger for an abortion now. Geez, why let the facts get in the way of scoring political points.
I would venture to guess that there is a no chance what so ever, that Rosie will ever have to worry about that!
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