Ravenwood - 09/20/02 06:00 AM
The illustrious Dr. Williams was busy last week debunking a Harvard study that suggests that segregation increased throughout the 90s. Yes, Harvard is referring to the 1990s. Apparently Harvard studied schools that were predominately black vs. predominately white and concluded that since more blacks went to black schools and more whites went to white schools, that segregation must be alive and well in the US of A.
Williams correctly points out that segregation has nothing to do with the heterogeneousness of a school, and everything to do with signs outside that say 'White Only' and 'Colored Allowed'. Instead of using the real definition of segregation, the Harvard 'scholars' redefine it to fit their agenda. Williams asks if they would have us swing down to Alabama and Georgia to pick up a bus loads of blacks and relocate them to predominately white South Dakota and Montana. We have to do something to get those averages up.
More so, he concludes by saying that the contention that race-mixing is a requirement for black academic excellence is down right insulting. I'm with you Doc. Tell those Ivy League pencil pushers where to stick it.
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