Anti-segregationists have from the beginning conflated legally mandated racial segregation with the separation of the races in schools, employment, and other institutions that results from residential separation.
And that made sense given their commitment to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown that it was impossible for schools to be "separate but equal".
Civil rights activists and federal courts agreed on this for a long time, and they not only took down legally mandated segregation but mandated bussing to ensure students of both races were mixed well as far as possible.
But continuing residential separation of the races and the steep relative decline of whites in the student population have profoundly undercut those efforts.
There just aren't enough white kids within reach of city schools to make it possible.
In consequence, we have to find a way for schools that have overwhelmingly black student bodies to be equal to schools that don't.
And that can't happen without significant changes in the way schools are financed.
This writer finds it all very annoying and of course blames white parents.
White parents are enabling school segregation — if it doesn't hurt their own kids
This is so important to blacks that it complicates the Democratic primary, and especially Joe Biden's position.
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