Jonathan Turley complains about the possibility of new segregated schools in Chicago, designed as a way to improve the graduation rates of black males.
Naturally, he is horrified by the idea.
But I ask, why not try it and see if it works?
It's hard to read such editorials without wondering if the writer is essentially thinking: Hey, Mr. African-American, you wanted to go to school with us back in the 50s, well, buster, now you're stuck with us!
Reading at the proposed school, the typical mainstream conservative response to said school (i.e., that segregation is eeeeeevil) brings to mind Zora Neale Hurston's words regarding Brown v. Board of Education:
Since the days of the never-to-be-sufficiently-deplored Reconstruction, there has been current the belief that there is no greater delight to Negroes than the physical association with whites.
And of course, Mr. Turley, being the grand man he is, would never wish to allow the parents of said black students to deny their children the boundless joys of association with white students by sending them to a school that is desigend to be primarily black. Or, perhaps, he believes that there is no greater delight to white students than the physical association with black ones, and is afraid of denying his children (if he has any) the benefits of their presence if black students decide that an all-black or almost all-black school is more conducive to their academic achievement.
That is all.
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