lawrence; and me shutting up

NAME OF AUTHOR and TEXT
Charles Lawrence and "One More River to Cross"Recognizing the Real Injury in Brown:
A Prerequisite to Shaping New Remedies

AUTHOR’S ARGUMENT

Lawrence argues that the decision by the court to strike down segregation failed in the sense that the judicial system really had no idea what they were doing. It failed to be useful in the school system.


QUOTES

"I have argued that the Supreme Court's reasoning in striking down an interdistrict desegregation order in Detroit was flawed in that it misunderstood the true nature of the institution of segregation.'"

- He is stating that the court did not base its decision on a equal clause but on a "feeling" clause, therefore not taking any responsibility for the effects on blacks.

"The Court then went on to quote the federal district court in Kansas that found"a sense of inferiority" engendered by segregated schools "has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children:"

"By focusing on the effect of school segregation rather than its purpose the Warren Court confused the issue and led us to look to separation as the sole source of black children's feelings of inferiority rather than at the larger institution of which segregated schools were only a small part. This confusion has limited us both in proving injury and in our search for appropriate remedies."

-again proves my point

"We must Devise and Demand Remedies That Go beyond Mere Pupil Placement"

- how do we go about this?

"We Must Continue to Demand that the Affirmative Disestablishment of the System of Segregation Be Recognized As a Constitutional Right"

- and how do we do this?

Something I felt like sharing...

Back in the day schools for women were meant to reinforce the role of women in a man's world, living as the inferior sex. Can this be parallel to the effect of segregation based on race? Also, again I have issues with most groups only concerned with blacks. What about the other ethnic groups that existed in the U.S. at this time? Were those ethnic groups subject to segregation also, discriminated against? To what extent? How has this court case affected other ethnic groups?

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/POINTS TO SHARE

I think I've shut up.

Okay so after printing the article (instead of off the screen like I usually do) and rereading it several times, I feel like I finally got a better grasp of this article. I think that the author is talking about that the court never really made the actual statement of why segregation is wrong and basically referred to segregation's effect on blacks based on a "feeling", rather than the case. The difficult aspect of this article though is getting through his legal mumbo jumbo. I literally had to just read it paragraph at a time. I never had such an issue before. I'm still at a loss about the real effects of the Brown vs Board of Education. How much of it stills runs rampant, through housing segregation though.