Holy Buck, Fatman!

That was the ruling that essentially put Bush into the white house so long ago. It’s also the number that we’ve been seeing quite often since the confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito.

June is SCOTUS opinion season and we’ve seen some whoppers. Today, however, is the first day I have literally become scare shitless of the direction of our country. We have to wait a lifetime for these 5  cockblockers on the supreme court to either die or voluntarily retire. It’s no doubt that infiltration of the courts is what the Bush Administration had in mind. It was the perfect way to implement social and moral rule.  It’s working, and many are waiting for their turn to overturn precedent that has stood for many years.

Today we saw the erosion of the Brown v. Board of Education. The SCOTUS, in a 5-4 decision, ruled that school districts cannot create diversity plans that take into account race. to make a 185 Page decision short, it will disallow public school systems to integrate solely upon the race of the students, but left “The door open” for extreme cases. In which Chickenshit Justice Kennedy said that it will support de facto segregation, so it could POSSIBLY interpreted that you can use race as a consideration in certain cases. We all know that won’t happen, epecially since the plaintiffs in the case was a parents group against the use of race at all. (read: I don’t want your poor black/brown/hispanic kids attending my lilly white school, Dammit!) My personal fav Chief Justice Roberts quote:

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

Yeah, me too…Huh? what? Oh yeah…If we stop TALKING ABOUT RACE…maybe it will just GO AWAY. I think that’s what he means to say. Dumbass. Hey, You asshole Democrats who voted for Clouture during the two scariest Judge confirmations: You reap what you sow, assmunches.  But, then again, if you’re a libercrat,you probably believe the quote. Unless, of course, it’s perceived anti-seminism.

The damage that this ruling will do is economic. The plan that conservatives have embraced was one of a division between the haves and the have nots. The largely white and well off suburbs will flourish by not having any kind  forced intergration. Think about the brave black students who entered Central High Hchool in Little Rock,  Arkansas wanted a better education that was not afforded to them in their “separate but equal” school for black children. Brown v Board of Education affirmed 9-0 that none of the black schools were equal to their white counter parts. In many ways, we have not risen above that. Inner city schools are largely African American and also starved for funds. Schools that are supposed to be as equal as their suburban counter parts are in disrepair, have little or no resources, cannot hire good teachers and are often overcrowded.  The Seattle school district named in the SCOTUS case used race as the very last indicator to diversify their school districts. From the WaPo:

The Seattle school district said it used race as one among many factors, relied on it only in some instances and then only at the end of a lengthy process in allocating students among the city’s high schools. Seattle suspended its program after parents sued.

So what does this actually open the door to?  Potentially, It could mean that schools in very white neighborhoods could suspend their programs allowing kids from economically depressed areas to attend their schools. Public schools in inner city areas will continue to be largely African American, under funded and unequal. They could potentially be taken over by NCLB because of poor performance. They will be turned over to for profit education businesses that will start to slowly privatize them.  Vouchers, then finally the utter destruction of the public school system that will systematically discriminate on the basis of those having money and those who do not.  If you don’t believe me, lets take a look at some of the quotes left on a Wall Street Journal Q & A Blog: (behind pay per view firewall, which I am canceling because of the Newscorp buyout)

I agree with Mr. Bailey and Mr. Derek above. Discriminating against white people is just as evil and immoral as discriminating against people of color. I believe our 14th Amendment prohibits both forms of discrimination.

Comment by Andrew J. Manuse - June 28, 2007 at 1:44 pm

This could be a powerful catalyst to further school choice, charter schools, and private schools. There are plenty of people, both profit and nonprofit, waiting to help all kids get a good education, regardless of race or geography. The government should sit back, vouchers in hand, and let them.

Comment by School Choice - June 28, 2007 at 1:43 pm 

So what did this SCOTUS season bring to us?

In one full term, this Court has severely curbed local efforts to promote racial diversity in schools, upheld a right-wing ban on a necessary medical procedure for women, curbed students’ free speech rights, crippled Congress’ ability to keep corporate money out of political advertising, prevented taxpayers from challenging the constitutionality of Bush’s faith-based initiatives, made it almost impossible for women to prevail on claims of longterm sex discrimination . . . and they’re just getting started.

I weep for the future.