[The District Court of Kansas City, Mo.] found that racial imbalances constituted an ongoing constitutional violation that continued to inflict harm on black students. This position appears to rest upon the idea that any school that is black is inferior, and that blacks cannot succeed without the benefit of the company of whites. This is the gospel that black elites, guided by their white liberal mentors, have sold to the American people for over 40 years. Worse, each generation of black youth is conditioned to accept these notions of their own inferiority. At one time, one risked life and limb to dare challenge the pseudo-scientific "research" of the psychobabbler Kenneth Clark, on whose theories so much of the Brown decision is based.
The Brown decision came as a slap in the face to proud blacks like writer Zora Neale Hurston, who, upon hearing of the decision, declared, "The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody to associate with me who does not wish me near them? I regard the ruling of the United States Supreme Court as insulting, rather than honoring my race." In a sense, Thomas's concurrence in Missouri v. Jenkins vindicates the teachings of other proud blacks like Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, S.B. Fuller and Malcolm X. And why not? It was Thomas, after all, in that now famous 1987 interview with Juan Williams, who quoted Malcolm's exhortation to black men not to look to integration as a panacea, but to concentrate on building among themselves, "wherever possible, however possible." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/lOt0.A/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/Y2tolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
