Comments on: School Desegregation: It’s in our Hands Now http://www.allaboutrace.com/2007/07/02/school-desegregation-its-in-our-hands-now/ Fresh and fearless conversation about race in America. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:05:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Carmen D. http://www.allaboutrace.com/2007/07/02/school-desegregation-its-in-our-hands-now/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Carmen D. Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:23:01 +0000 http://www.allaboutrace.com/?p=111#comment-246 The challenge is for the parents of inner city school children to organize and raise a stink. The court is in place and will be for a long time, but there are a few examples of good schools serving poor children. Those schools are created when parents get organized and determined to see their children get a quality education. No one is powerless we MUST change that mindset. The challenge is for the parents of inner city school children to organize and raise a stink. The court is in place and will be for a long time, but there are a few examples of good schools serving poor children. Those schools are created when parents get organized and determined to see their children get a quality education.

No one is powerless we MUST change that mindset.

]]> By: Alan http://www.allaboutrace.com/2007/07/02/school-desegregation-its-in-our-hands-now/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Alan Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:57:32 +0000 http://www.allaboutrace.com/?p=111#comment-237 As long as inner city schools with very little money or a budget get swept under. The more affluent neighborhoods will florish and those that dream to have a real oportunity will try with a greater disadvantage. Thank you all Bush appointees. As long as inner city schools with very little money or a budget get swept under. The more affluent neighborhoods will florish and those that dream to have a real oportunity will try with a greater disadvantage. Thank you all Bush appointees.

]]> By: Carmen D. http://www.allaboutrace.com/2007/07/02/school-desegregation-its-in-our-hands-now/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Carmen D. Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:04:53 +0000 http://www.allaboutrace.com/?p=111#comment-211 Hello LeSieur, welcome to the conversation. You make a very good point about our justices. We are all in this for a very long time. If you listen to Talk Radio as I do, you hear daily how wonderful the Bush Supreme Court appointees are. I fear that I don't know how to build a bridge to cover the distance from where I stand to where "they" stand. But, I won't give up. Your description of the Jena Six as a tipping point is true for me, too. I feel emboldened and clear to tell everyone who will listen about this case. I cannot believe the brazenness of the District Attorney in Jena. I will not ignore the blatant racism and/or incompetence of the court appointed defense attorneys. I will not accept that this has to be so. I will do my little part to make good people aware of what is happening and hopefully they will be moved to act in any way that they can. Hello LeSieur, welcome to the conversation. You make a very good point about our justices. We are all in this for a very long time. If you listen to Talk Radio as I do, you hear daily how wonderful the Bush Supreme Court appointees are. I fear that I don’t know how to build a bridge to cover the distance from where I stand to where “they” stand. But, I won’t give up.

Your description of the Jena Six as a tipping point is true for me, too. I feel emboldened and clear to tell everyone who will listen about this case. I cannot believe the brazenness of the District Attorney in Jena. I will not ignore the blatant racism and/or incompetence of the court appointed defense attorneys. I will not accept that this has to be so. I will do my little part to make good people aware of what is happening and hopefully they will be moved to act in any way that they can.

]]> By: LeSieur http://www.allaboutrace.com/2007/07/02/school-desegregation-its-in-our-hands-now/comment-page-1/#comment-210 LeSieur Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:45:18 +0000 http://www.allaboutrace.com/?p=111#comment-210 Those 9 justices who sit on the Supreme Court are there until death do us part. So that, even when the next president takes office, a Justice that's on the bench now, will, have to die; or become so mentally deranged, that he's forced off before he's replaced. Tell the people right. So, which one is going first, to re-balance the court. "Sky high election turnout" is not enough to turn this tide. And "we didn't take to the streets and riot", just as a happenstance. From 65 thru 68 Dr. King was steadily trying to quell the ZEAL to riot. In light of what was happening then and which riots took place when, is what's relevant. All that was occurring and such great despair is what got the riots, started. So, let 'em pile it on. I live in Louisiana, and the "Jena Six" is one of those tipping points. It is connected to the, opinion by Justice Thomas. Maybe, some should take the time to read the Opinion's. The bottom line is "America" doesn't want integration, desegregation or any of that. When a small-town southern black boy goes to white party in the small town south, even if a white girl invites them, they [black boys] get whipped out of there. No charges are filed against the white boys, because the Judge, the D. A., the jury and all, will have none of that. None of what? Black boys and white girls in 2007. Does any one get, it? White folk have had their fill of us, and have swayed some black folk and other minorities into the same thought. Jena started, at a SCHOOL, under a tree: A WHITES ONLY TREE, and the GOVERNMENT is PROSECUTING, those that had the audacity, to get riled up. The government? Yeah! The, parish government, the state government and the federal Government. DoJ is in Jena. The Governor is aware because the state police was there filming the protest. And for sure, the parish entities; there had to have been in COLLUSION. As I have been aprised, Judge J. P. Mauffray of the 28th Judicial district in LaSalle parish, knew; when the jury went in, there was no lesser charges, the jury could have considered, because no motion for such was filed by either attorney. The D. A wasn't going to, even though under Louisiana rules of practice, if he knew, there was a possible, dis-service to justice, he was ethicly bound to make the court aware. And so, this school campus melee has turned into an international blotch on so-called american jurisprudence. Justice Thomas, had it right. Forced [racial-balancing]integration is likely to get someone killed. He [Thomas] cited the Courts insistence on denying a separation policy in a California prison, resulting in two deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read the part about the "White Privilege Conference", [black] students from Seattle schools went to, un-invited. Maybe, that school system was pushing the outer limits of what, the "ruling class" in America wants. LeSieur Those 9 justices who sit on the Supreme Court are there until death do us part. So that, even when the next president takes office, a Justice that’s on the bench now, will, have to die; or become so mentally deranged, that he’s forced off before he’s replaced. Tell the people right. So, which one is going first, to re-balance the court. “Sky high election turnout” is not enough to turn this tide. And “we didn’t take to the streets and riot”, just as a happenstance. From 65 thru 68 Dr. King was steadily trying to quell the ZEAL to riot. In light of what was happening then and
which riots took place when, is what’s relevant. All that was occurring and such great despair is what got the riots, started.

So, let ‘em pile it on. I live in Louisiana, and the “Jena Six” is one of those tipping points. It is connected to the, opinion by Justice Thomas. Maybe, some should take the time to read the Opinion’s. The bottom line is “America” doesn’t want integration, desegregation or any of that. When a small-town southern black boy goes to white party in the small town south, even if a white girl invites them, they [black boys] get whipped out of there. No charges are filed against the white boys, because the Judge, the D. A., the jury and all, will have none of that. None of what? Black boys and white girls in 2007.
Does any one get, it? White folk have had their fill of us, and have swayed some black folk and other minorities into the same thought.

Jena started, at a SCHOOL, under a tree: A WHITES
ONLY TREE, and the GOVERNMENT is PROSECUTING, those that had the audacity, to get riled up.

The government? Yeah!
The, parish government, the state government and the federal Government. DoJ is in Jena. The Governor is aware because the state police was there filming the protest. And for sure, the parish entities; there had to have been in COLLUSION.
As I have been aprised, Judge J. P. Mauffray of the 28th Judicial district in LaSalle parish, knew; when the jury went in, there was no lesser charges, the jury could have considered, because no motion for such was filed by either attorney. The D. A wasn’t going to, even though under Louisiana rules of practice, if he knew, there was a possible, dis-service to justice, he was ethicly bound to make the court aware. And so, this school campus melee has turned into an international blotch on so-called american jurisprudence.

Justice Thomas, had it right. Forced [racial-balancing]integration is likely to get someone killed. He [Thomas] cited the Courts insistence on denying a separation policy in a California prison, resulting in two deaths and hundreds of injuries.
Read the part about the “White Privilege Conference”, [black] students from Seattle schools went to, un-invited. Maybe, that school system was pushing the outer limits of what, the “ruling class” in America wants.
LeSieur

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