Beating the bushes for racism

An unpopular truth

[Reprinted from Issues & Views February 16, 2004]

Is it possible to keep track of the assorted ways that schools are prevented from functioning as normal institutions? What's to be done in a system that harbors criminal students who cannot be expelled, undereducated teachers who cannot be tested, and must fend off disruptive lawsuits?

Brewer Turley in the Times-Enterprise (2/6/04) reports on a verdict that cleared the Thomasville City School System of charges of actively implementing racially discriminating practices. The charges were brought by the local branch of the NAACP in 1998. A laundry list of grievances included a charge of unequal treatment being accorded black students who participated in Homecoming and "Miss Bulldog" pageants, problems with dress codes, and differences over facilities for the baseball team.

The NAACP brought suit "seeking an end to the racially segregated and unequal education system first established pursuant to Georgia's de jure system of education, and preserved, perpetuated and re-established in current policies and practices of the (system)." This is yet another "cause" orchestrated by this fading civil rights organization, whose officials beat the bushes to ferret out "race" cases, in order to justify its continuing existence.

Thanks to reams of "civil rights" laws, the NAACP also plays another role -- as a job-getting agency for black elites. Such people target certain jobs held by whites, then use an NAACP branch to declare a company or institution "insufficiently integrated," so they can head for the courts. In this case, the charge was made that the school system had never "adequately desegregated" its faculty and staff. But the Court struck down the charge. "The Court further finds that the (system's) faculty assignment system from 1983 to the present has not been administered in a racially discriminatory manner and that the system is presently administered without regard to race."

With no concern for the long-term welfare of the people it claims to represent, the NAACP presses on, year in and year out, to find more proof of white "racism." Turley's report continues:

The Court finds that the (system) does not presently engage in racial discrimination as prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act," the judge's ruling says.

The Court further finds that any racial imbalances that presently exist within the (system) are not traceable in a proximate way to the de jure racially segregated system that existed at the time Brown vs. the Board of Education was decided almost fifty years ago," the ruling states. . . .

For more than five years, we have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to prove we did nothing wrong, and we feel we have been vindicated by the Court's judgment," Darrell Allen, chairman of the board of education, said.

The judge found for us on every issue, every accusation and every allegation made by the NAACP and the other plaintiffs. Most importantly, the Court found that the school system does not engage in racial discrimination," [said the school system's attorney Jerry Lumley].

It's something that's been hanging over their heads for five years now, and it has influenced every one of their decisions," Lumley said. "This case has been so important to me. The Court's ruling is evidence that the justice system works.

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