Segregated neighborhoods produce segregated schools. An example is housing patterns, which did not evolve by accident or choice, but because - as Richard Rothstein showed in his book “The Color of Law” - racially discriminatory rules were imposed by the federal, state and local governments. … He is called the founder of critical race theory, which holds that racism is systemic and that Blacks will never achieve equality until we reckon with the past and confront the systems and beliefs that allow racism and segregation to persist, blighting our society. Derrick Bell, the first Black person ever to receive tenure at Harvard Law School. In the 1980s, I became friends with Prof. No longer would places of public accommodation or public transit or public schools be allowed to bar Blacks, nor would Blacks be denied the right to vote. The federal government and the federal courts would reverse any racial discrimination, we believed. Johnson administration in the mid-1960s strengthened the belief that racial inequality was defeated. The Civil Rights laws passed during the Lyndon B. Board decision, which overturned the fiction of “separate but equal,” marked the beginning of the end for racial segregation. Many whites, myself included, believed that the 1954 Brown vs. And that, when Reconstruction ended in 1877, white Southerners quickly restored the status quo, replacing slavery with Jim Crow legislation that maintained racism, segregation and unequal opportunity for Blacks. It was many years later that I learned that this was the Confederate view of events, and that Reconstruction was a time when able Black men served honorably in Congress, and racially integrated state legislatures wrote new and progressive constitutions. Reconstruction following the Civil War was taught as a time when Southern whites were oppressed by federal troops, opportunistic carpetbaggers, and ignorant Black politicians who ran their states into the ground. Albert Sidney Johnston), but minimal mention of slavery or its cruelty. When we studied the Civil War, there were heroes on both sides (my junior high school was named for a Confederate hero, Gen. The only person of color mentioned was George Washington Carver, who discovered many uses of peanuts. In school, our history textbooks taught us about great American patriots, all of whom were white. The customs of white supremacy were well understood and seldom, if ever, violated. When a white and a Black approached each other on the sidewalk, the Black person was expected to step into the road to let the white person pass. By custom, a Black person entered the house of a white person only through the back door. If whites needed more seats, the marker was pushed back, and Blacks stood. Grocery stores had two water fountains, one marked “white,” the other marked “colored.” Public buses had a movable marker with the word “colored,” which consigned Black people to the back of the bus. In the Houston of my youth, every public and private facility was racially segregated: schools, mass transit, restaurants, hotels, public swimming pools and everything else. But Diane Ravitch published a worthwhile article in the New York Daily News on this topic in the 29 June 2021 issue.
#The ominous parallels professional
I have not written extensively on “Critical Race Theory” and have no time to do so, given personal and professional constraints. The merits of CRT matter less to me than the central point of this blog entry: That somebody as far away from CRT as Ayn Rand had something profoundly important to say about the nature of systemic racism. Okay, here’s something that should piss off people on both sides of the Critical Race Theory debate. I introduced this blog post on Facebook with the following preface:
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