Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, July 11, 2019
EQUALIZE THE MONEY!
Kenneth and Mamie Clark's famous "dolls tests" do not really show how segregated schools "severely" hurt black children. For pre-school aged children, who were as young as 3, reacted the same way that the older black children had, ashamed.
Social psychologists, Kenneth and Mamie Clark's' famous dolls-tests proves that it was NOT the "segregated schools" that were causing the harm in these 3-year old black children, but rather their homes, parents, relatives, churches, friends.
Therefore, I hold firmly to the view that the equalization of schools and the money to effect that end if pursued by black neighborhoods' schools' administration's can work better than failed "busing for integration policy", the exclusive remedy pursed after the death of Charles Hamilton Houston in 1950 by Thurgood Marshall and the coterie of civil rights lawyers,and groups.
However well-intended they may have been, they were in err. They were intrinsically misguided by beliefs and biases about their own people's capacities! Black colleges, churches, fraternities, sororities, lodges, are also segregated by choice and few people refer tol them as "inherently inferior." Why then the public schools, exclusively? Equalize the money!
I read these facts about the CXlarks' influential demonstrative evidence in ROOT AND BRANCH by Rawn James, Jr. (2010), p. 221-222.