Clinton, Reid and Obama: Segregationists by Jed Babbin

A 5 year-old boy was not allowed to attend his neighborhood school because of his race. And it was 2002, not 1954. The most remarkable thing about last week’s Supreme Court decision was that it had to be decided by the Court at all. Contrary to the Constitutional principle of equal rights under the law, the Jefferson County Kentucky Board of Education, a federal district court and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals all agreed that Joshua McDonald should be compelled to go to a school across town despite the fact that there were open seats at his neighborhood school simply to maintain racial quotas in Louisville’s decades-old busing plan.

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