[:O] www.state.nj.us/njded/legal/sboe/1997/asbpk.pdf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> TD: Lsats are June 11. Can't wait.
>
> Given the true facts, I see no reason why the schools in NJ are not
> funded equally. Again, TD, at what point are things considered equal?
> Is it the point every kid from an Abbott district gets into a college
> of their choice or gets straight A's, what about the white kids from
> the lawsuit driven rural Abbott Districts?
>
> Tell me - what is equal? beer on me. (then we'll be equal)
>
> Another bit:
> http://www.issues-views.com/index.php/sect/1003/article/501
> ....Instead of relying on these explicit constitutional guarantees,
> the Court chose to compromise and used sophistic social science in a
> legal case that would cripple the education and lives of millions of
> black children for generations to come.
>
> With all due respect to Judge Damon Keith (a jurist of the highest
> order) this gala event tomorrow [May 17, 2003] celebrating the Brown
> v. Board of Education case, is a terrible tragedy, not because I
> don't believe that black people should be allowed to attend school
> with whites. I am a black man--born and raised in Detroit and
> attended Detroit public schools with white children from K-12.
> However, to celebrate a court case such as Brown, which is obviously
> not based on a single judicial precedent, diminishes the Constitution
> that every American should put its faith in to uphold.
>
> In 1954, there was a Faustian bargain made among the eight voting
> members of the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, the President, as well
> as every court in America, every political leader, every public
> school, private school, law school, university, academy, and every
> responsible American citizen. To give legitimacy to Brown v. Board of
> Education, is to sacrifice lawful constitutional due process and
> sound constitutional jurisprudence for the expediency of the public
> policy fiction, which the Brown opinion solidified in American
> culture--that is, that black children must be allowed to attend
> public school with white children in order to get [equally] educated.
>
> This type of misguided public policy presupposes that black people,
> prior to 1954, were totally uneducated, ignorant and, just waiting
> for Masser to open up the school house door so us poor negroes can
> finally get educated by going to school with the white folks! Ms.
> Taylor, the hateful assumptions Brown makes about our people should
> be publicly denounced by all rational persons of any race, class or
> creed.
>
> In the final analysis, I hope that you will read the selected
> passages on the Brown opinion in my book, The Inseparability of Law
> and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law
> (University Press of America,); [EMAIL PROTECTED], or
> http://www.univpress.com.
>
