So I'm to be kicked out of a leper colony for having too many fingers?
Here is the answer you are pretending not to understand:
"...the other desegregation efforts..." is a lie. It is an assertion that Affirmative Action deserves to be grouped with such things as, say, busing, which while clumsy did have the effect of requiring school districts to give every school equal attention.
I recall when busing started. I was in junior high. It was a huge pain in the ass for the black students who showed up at Benjamin Tasker Jr. (and appalling on a historical level if you know who he was), but it got them better treatment... and it got us white kids a better education, at least for a couple of years, until the teachers finished digging a new rut to get into.
Every single supporter of Affirmative Action that I knew personally was against busing, of course.
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Date: 2014-04-25 06:01 pm (UTC)Here is the answer you are pretending not to understand:
"...the other desegregation efforts..." is a lie. It is an assertion that Affirmative Action deserves to be grouped with such things as, say, busing, which while clumsy did have the effect of requiring school districts to give every school equal attention.
I recall when busing started. I was in junior high. It was a huge pain in the ass for the black students who showed up at Benjamin Tasker Jr. (and appalling on a historical level if you know who he was), but it got them better treatment... and it got us white kids a better education, at least for a couple of years, until the teachers finished digging a new rut to get into.
Every single supporter of Affirmative Action that I knew personally was against busing, of course.