As an attorney, I am asked about important court cases, including Brown
v Board of Education (May 17, 1954; 50th anniversary is near). No one can
measure the monstrous impact of government schools imposing racism and
teaching racism as official policy for so long. Government school racism
did much more damage than private enterprise could ever have afforded to do.
It would have been better if government had stayed out of schools
altogether. http://members.ij.net/rex/stopthepledge4.html
The Brown decision ignores how government schools started the problem
that Brown ended. When government began socializing schools in the late
1800's, it expanded government-mandated racism. Brown is another example of
government peeing on everyone and then claiming that it was rain.
The Pledge of Allegiance (1892) was written by a bigot who was a
self-proclaimed national socialist and advocated that government should
operate all schools as a socialist monopoly and end all of the better
alternatives. http://members.ij.net/rex/pledgebigot.html The government
forced children to attend segregated schools where they recited the Pledge
using it's original straight-arm salute
http://members.ij.net/rex/pledgeracism.html (with eye-popping photo there).
If the government had taken over all churches then the same horror would
have resulted, with government-mandated racism in government churches. The
libertarian solution would have been to end government churches. It is
fortunate that the Constitution prevented government churches. It is
unfortunate that the Constitution did not prevent government schools, though
they are no where authorized.
In addition to ending government's racism, Brown should have ended
government schools. The separation of school and state is as important as
the separation of church and state.
http://members.ij.net/rex/schoolsmain.html Its not too late.
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