I’m curious Wardaddy. Since you lay some of our modern problems at the feet of the “racial redress stuff” from the 1960’s, how do you think it should have gone? What should have been done differently from a racial standpoint?
If I may...
Bussing was an mistake of epic proportions. The federal judge who first mandated it admitted that it had been a mistake some years later.
Forced integration was too drastic -- and controversial -- a remedy for a situation that, left alone, would've solved itself.
Moreover, it shifted the emphasis of public education from education to social engineering -- and enforced enormous (and unnecessary) expenditures on transportation. In the process, it destroyed the neighborhood school concept and seriously diluted public education for all children -- black and white.
If the federal judiciary had been content to let nature take its course, integration would likely be a fact of life today -- while we are, in fact, further away from that goal than ever. And we might still have a functioning system of public education...
Only to have enforced the right to vote
That was the only right at that time enumerated in the constitution blacks were denied either totally or by degree
We...myself included....supported going way beyond that into every aspect of American life and we continue to feed the beast
And what was once decent abour black culture has eroded exponentially
And it has created a climate of distrust, hostility, and contemptuous dependence far worse than what it purported to remedy