Being from here, I have accepted the fact that in other states, for some reason, they automatically think of a some mirror-shaded state trooper a' la "Buford T. Justice" saying something like "Boys, we don't want you colored types around here." Then he would spit some tobacco juice. Why would he spit tobacco juice, I'm not sure, but that's what they always did.Well, that isn't the case, nessicarily. Texas has just joined the states where the "caucasian" is no longer majority. If you add all the other ethnicities togather they now comprise 50.1%. Whitey, is only 49.9%*.
(* ~ It is at this point where I would like to launch a pre-emptive "NO, jackass, that doesn't mean that we should start a 'National Caucasian College Fund.'" That's the lamest thing that white people can't seem to drop. Black kids get moeny to go to college sometimes , deal with it. I did.)
So how has this effected race equality, are we all one big happy family now? Not hardly, but I think there has been forward progress made. Hey, if my abrasive, redneck,"bubba-filled" family can grasp the concept of multiculturalism then we must be doing something right.
While this might be the case, you still have stuff like the article above.
"Children's parents, who live in the Hearne School District (search) in Texas, say they want their kids to get the best education possible, and to get that they should attend school in the Mumford School District. But the Hearne district filed suit in 2003 to prevent them from transferring, claiming that the Mumford district was recruiting white students
Because the transfers changed the racial makeup of the classroom, under federal law only the white students were prevented from changing schools."
The Court allowed the kids to go to that district in the temporary ruling that leads the article, but the point I want to make is this: Racism will continue to exist. It has for centuries so there is no reason to expect it to stop entirely. That being said we can minimize its effect by realizing that unfair advantage needs only to equaled as far as enabling an equal access to things such as education. It doesn't need to guarantee it. Nor does it make sense to restrict it in any way along any racial line. Individual achievement must be allowed an equal access to start, but you can not force individual achievement, through policy, to prosper.
At some point these programs must realize what socialism and communism have never grasped: Some people will make the most of any opportunity and some will not. All we need to to allow equal access to that starting point. What people do with that chance is up to them.
Since all schools are not equal, everyone should be able to have a equal run at following the steps to attend better schools by moving. White kids included. The fact that it "changes the racial profile of the class" shoud be nothing more than an observation in addmissions statistics. To do otherwise is to be racist and continues racism.
So, people, let's either embrace the ideal of "equality" entirely and eliminate these stupid types of laws or quit making half-assed attempts at it achieving "equality."
Because when I read this it turned my stomach:
Stephanie Grudzieski, mother of a 7th-grader who has attended Mumford schools since the 4th grade, said her daughter was in the process of being kicked out of school because she is white. "Katy came to me and asked me, 'Momma I can't go to school because of the color of my skin?' and I said, 'Yes baby, that's basically what's going on,'" said Grudzieski.
And for the record, if you can sit there and say something along the lines of "well that kind of thing has happened to (add ethnic group here) kids for years" and not be bothered by it, then you are part of the problem.
Equal, means everyone.
