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Thursday, November 30, 2006
Skin Color: Will It Always Matter?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Yesterday, while the Get Schooled crowd debated what’s an acceptable blog topic, I started working on a story about a major education issue ready to hit the U.S. Supreme Court.
Next week, the justices will hear arguments in two cases that question whether school systems may assign students to campuses on the basis of race.
Hard to believe that more than 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, communities — including some here in metro Atlanta — still are grappling with integration and segregation.
What I want to know is: Will we ever see a day when the idea of a “white school,” a “black school,” or a “Latino school” becomes a foreign concept or is “separate, but equal” the kind of society Americans really want?
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