••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Thursday, January 04, 2007


But let's be clear. If the court decides to strike down the Seattle and Louisville plans, it will not have resolved any "ambiguity" in Brown. Brown unambiguously held that racial apartheid has no place in public schools or elsewhere in public life. The justices who decided Brown and their successors who enforced Brown saw no constitutional equivalence between race-conscious efforts to segregate and race-conscious efforts to integrate public schools.

A contrary holding would mark a novel application of colorblindness in contemporary doctrine—but a regrettable departure from the meaning of Brown.



If the justices rule them unconstitutional, the tenuous advance of equal opportunity could be undermined or even reversed.

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