how wrong was the decision and if it s based on a erroneous factual premise, that is clearly one of the factors you would look at and mistake of history, sometimes cases where there are mistakes of history in cases, mistakes of fact. so quickly, the two examples that come readily to mind, one is shelby county, court said in looking at whether there is still any institutional racism in the preclearance state they needed to worry about, nope, the quote country has changed and current conditions, their phrase, are different. first, where do you suppose the five justices that made the decision got expertise in vestigal state racism to make that determination at all? senator, i can t comment on the decision other than to say it is a precedent. i understand the point you are making you do know that since then
i think the problem is politicians don t have the courage, which i hope this court will, return to first principles, state racism will not end and will not succeed particularly now we re 50 years past water hosing and ban on sitting in the front of the bus. i mean, it really belittles the challenges the civil rights movement faced in the 1960s to 50 years later be insisting that conditions still warrant the extraordinary remedy the court deemed it to be in the 1960s. it doesn t warrant it. the civil rights movement should declare victory. we should recognize we have greater threats arising from the centralization of power in the federal government and we should also thank the supreme court on reinvigorating decentralization of power of returning to the states their primary role in regulating elections. with nsa surveillance, the greatest threat we all face too
it will be a color blind institution. where are your markers for this. we are talking color blindness. we know color blindness leads to a monochromatic classroom. we are seen it in california and other places. the university of texas has a different formulation for creating a different classroom. very narrow. the 10% rule. the problem with the 10% rule is that it gives us a stake in residential segregation. that s what makes it work. the reason it works color blindness there. the reason it works is because we don t live in a color blind society. what it does is excludes from inclusion african-americans who go to private schools. it does not end state racism. i m going to give you the last word on this.
what are you f-ing playing at? he reportedly began. according to the newspaper, he accused the editor of breaking the unwritten code that proprietors do not attack each other. oh, jimmy, you re new here. rules? there are no rules. our runner up, congressman brian doeb bray of california with one of the dumbest things ever said in the increasingly desperate effort to diz guys arizona s official state racism as anything else. chris matthews asked him what, when they go looking for possible immigrants, they will look for besides the color of their skin. bilbray s answer? their shoes. they will look at the kind of dress they wear. there s different type of attire, there s different type of right down to the shoes. right down to the clothes. but mostly by behavior. different type of attire. okay, so you can judge people s