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RACIST SCUMBAG PATROL -- According to a new report by the Harvard Civil Rights Project, schools are resegregating. The report found that school desegregation peaked in the late 1980's, as courts ruled that the goals of Brown vs. Board of Education had been achieved. But since then, the trend has been in the other direction, and in many areas of the country, most white students have "little contact" with minority students, according to the report.

"We are celebrating a victory over segregation at a time when schools across the nation are becoming increasingly segregated" - Harvard Civil Rights Project Report

The Brown decision spurred three decades of court-ordered desegregation efforts, which first opened white schools to blacks, and then provided busing to facilitate integration. The largest impacts of the ruling were in the South, where the percentage of black students in predominantly white schools went from zero to 43% from 1954 to 1988. But by 2001, that figure had dropped to 30%, which was the level attained in 1969.

The study says that Hispanic students are more segregated than blacks, and that Asian Americans are the most integrated ethnic group in the country. 80% of Hispanic students now attend predominantly minority schools, up from 42% in 1968. The most segregated states for blacks are New York and Illinois, while the most integrated are Kentucky and Washington. Latino segregation is highest in New York and California, and lowest in Wyoming and Ohio.--Tee Doff, Vinny's Graftwatch Volunteer

"Most schools in this country are overwhelmingly black or overwhelmingly white...we have still not committed ourselves as a country to the mandate of Brown versus Board of Education. If these trends are not reversed, we could easily find ourselves back to 1954."

- Elise Boddie, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

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