Nearly 60 years after the landmark US supreme court ruling that ordered schools to integrate, the classrooms of Cleveland, Mississippi, are still divided by race.
A federal court ordered the Cleveland school district to consolidate its schools entirely on Friday, ruling that after so many decades of resistance, only dismantling and reforming the schools could bring the town’s two sides together.
In a 96-page opinion, the US district court for the northern district of Mississippi wrote: “The delay in desegregation has deprived generations of students of the constitutionally guaranteed right of an integrated education. Although no court order can right these wrongs, it is the duty of the District to ensure that not one more student suffers under this burden.”
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The Secular Jurist 
What! I thought this is what MLK talked about in his speech and this was all beyond your backs as they say
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America as a “post-racial” society is just a self-delusional myth… much like the twisted tenets of institutionalized religion.
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The things one learns each day
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Wow. 60 years of delayed desegregation? An example of how the powerful have kept MS a truly backward state – of poverty, ignorance, and suffering. They have no shame.
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Truly astonishing, isn’t it?
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