50+ years after Brown Dems still the race baiters

David Limbaugh:

Based on their consistent behavior in recent years, and specifically again in their presidential debate last Thursday, it is fair to ask whether there is any race-sensitive situation Democrats will not exploit for political purposes.

The Supreme Court's decision last week involving the public schools' use of race to achieve diversity was just too tempting to pass up. The respective candidates' reactions spawned a grotesque competition among them to see which was the best demagogue.

These candidates surely understand that the Court's ruling in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 et al, did not -- let me repeat -- did not overrule the Court's landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

In Brown, the Court held that forced segregation of the races in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In the Parents case, the Supreme Court did not reverse itself on the issue of segregation, which was not even at issue.

The Parents case involved two separate school districts, in Seattle, Wash., and Jefferson County, Ky., both of which voluntarily adopted student assignment plans that allocated children to different public schools based solely on their race. The Supreme Court held that such plans violated the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection guarantee.

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The Court's ruling should please all interested in moving toward a color-blind society. As Justice Thomas noted in his concurring opinion, the school districts' approach disfavors "a color-blind interpretation of the Constitution," and "would give school boards a free hand to make decisions on the basis of race -- an approach reminiscent of that advocated by the segregationists in Brown v. Board of Education."

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The Democrats have gone from exploiting race in defense of segregation to exploiting race for any reason that will keep blacks locked up on their plantation. There is nothing ambiguous about the 14th amendment and those who sought to find it to promote segregation were doing the same thing that those who attempted to assign students on teh basis of race in these cases did. There will be less discrimination when equal protection is applied in a color blind fashion.