The Seattle Post-Intelligencer comes out as pro-racism in the Editorial Board’s column on the case currently in front of the SCOTUS that questions the Seattle School District’s use of race as a mitigating factor in school choice decisions.
We hope the justices uphold an appeals court decision allowing schools to use race as a small factor to break some ties in the school assignment plan. U.S. children of all backgrounds benefit from learning, playing and relating to one another in classrooms that are as similar as possible to the communities in which they live.
First of all, it wasn’t a “small factor” it was the last factor. If a caucasian child and a hispanic child were up for the last spot at a given school, it was not given to the caucasian child. Simple as that, which is why it is in front of the SCOTUS.
The life lesson that the PI’s editors seem to have missed is that two wrongs do not make a right.
In a perfect world, we’d agree with ignoring race. Unfortunately, the country has a long history of conscious, legal discrimination once justified by the pseudoscience of racial classification. The hateful, comprehensive U.S. apartheid system continues to affect how communities are organized, where families live and what schools children attend. Some Americans think that, because most apartheid laws were gone by 1970, the issue is closed.
And in 99% of the country, it is.
There is no reason to bring partial or reverse-apartheid laws onto the books to “make-up” for mistakes of the past. Someone still suffers under these decisions. But because the ones who are benefiting were the previous sufferes and the tables are turned, the PI is OK with that.
Oh, that liberal media!
You sound lke you are almost suprised by this.
No, not surprised. Just disgusted.
As Orwell said, Some racisms are more equal then other racisms.