Why change Fail?

Posted by Marc Hodak on July 16, 2008 under Revealed preference | Read the First Comment

OK, so the headline isn’t a shocker: “Utah NAACP President Still Opposes Vouchers.” But the reasoning never ceases to amaze me:

It would go back to the past (before) Brown v. Board of Education. There would be segregated schools. The ones that would not have been able to afford the schools would’ve been children of color.

Because, you know, the current system is working so well for black kids, especially in those inner city schools attended by a rainbow of peacefully, coexisting races, except of course for all those black kids you see in private schools.

Pleazze, lady. The schools that our poor kids are trapped in lend a whole new meaning to “compulsory education”–a meaning where only half of the words count. It prepares far too many of them for the incarceration they will face–more than one-in-ten black males. If white society had imposed this school system upon our African-American population, it would be an outrage rivaling Jim Crow.

For once, you’d think the political leaders would actually do it for the kids. Instead, leaders like this political stooge are willing to continue sacrificing their kids en-masse on the altar of public education, just to prevent a few extra middle class white kids from going to private school.

Does this:

prepare you for this:

  • Kat said,

    Not to mention that desegregation killed very successful black schools like Dunbar High School.

    Here’s a link to Thomas Sowell’s article on this very topic.

    http://www.tsowell.com/speducat.html

    None of this surprises me. The NAACP just another special interest group that merely uses the issues of the group it professes to work on behalf of to seek personal gains for its officers. They eagerly sacrifice the well-being of the group they profess to protect in that pursuit. In that way they are no different from Hamas and Hezbollah.

    Of course, I’ll be called a racist for stating the obvious.

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