As normal Americans celebrate the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education this weekend, the official end of government-sanctioned segregation in schools, the permanently angry black and white socialists of the left — professional victims, all — kvetch with a straight face that segregation quietly, insidiously has returned. They offer no proof, just charges that are guaranteed to light up their fellow racists.
Publications such as the Los Angeles Titanic, www.politico.com, USA Today have to propagate such bilge. Not only do they swallow it whole, such journalism pays the bills. Stirring constant chaos is the first commandment of socialism — so their kind may thrive.
Normal Americans learn from birth that if they work hard they will succeed in straddling their dreams, no matter how ambitious their objectives.
Growing Up Differently
By contrast, leftists grow up in professional victim homes, raised by parents who teach them to envy and vilify those who are wealthier. Work-allergic leftists of all ages – white, brown and black (but emphatically not Asian), sit on curbs and wail into their second-hand hankies for even more government handouts while griping about neighbors who have more.
Yesterday, a self-inflicted bleeding black liberal, Nolan (I Worship Victimhood) Rollins, president/CEO of the Los Angeles Urban League, joined his fellow leftists in the gutter, bawling away about how unfair life is.
In an essay in the smart new Los Angeles Register, Mr. Rollins showed how a typically muddled racist thinker of the left portrays victimhood. He selectively employed data resting atop his side’s two favorite pillars, sweeping and vague. His charges are sufficient to sound impressive but ambiguous enough so he cannot be pinned down. Like a good little lefty, his favorite wail is “gap.” He writes: “The gap between blacks and whites in California earning a bachelor’s degree and higher, stands at nearly 20 percent.”
The slow in the room will love his finger-pointing. Ignoring the lousy single-parent homes typical of millions of black kids, Mr. Rollins says it is government’s fault. “Without a comprehensive (government) plan to encourage, support and fund higher education participation and achievement, particularly among blacks, we will continue to see the same results, a perpetuation of disadvantaged communities by race and ethnicity.” How embarrassing to think that way. Not my fault. Take responsibility, pal. Mr. Rollins must have squeezed a record number of buzz words into one sentence. If he had bothered with research, he would learn that 3 percent of Crenshaw High School students read to grade level. The issue is values, not racism. It isn’t Gov. Brown’s fault that black students shun academics. They never learned the value in their parent-deprived homes.
Heidi Ho. You’re Not?
That brings us to a girl named Heidi (I Love Victimhood) Hall of the Nashville Tennessean, borrowed for this morning by USA Today.
Without a single piece of data to back up her looney assertion, Ms. Empty Hall writes that charter schools are causing segregation to return. Using the handy gimmick “critics say,” maintains that “critics say” the problem with charter schools succeeding is (you may not believe this) “that charter systems pay more attention to student achievement than to racial diversity when both are important.”
You have to be a left-wing spaceman to swallow that nonsense.
Finally, there is Peggy (You May Call Me Flat) Tyre, writing in Politico under the headline “Segregation Is Back.”
Since almost no serious person could berth on the left, the wilfully ignorant Ms. Tyre shows why with this balmy little-girl kvetch:
“The legacy of Brown v. Board of Education turns out to be equality without equity. These days, in affluent, largely white communities, well-educated parents support public education dollars by providing basic supports that low-income families cannot routinely afford: ample nutrition, excellent health care and high-quality preschools. On top of that, wealthy families turbocharge the public dollars spent on their children. In the last forty years, they have more than doubled the resources they expend on equipment and activities for their children that enhance education—book, computers, tutors, summer camps and travel.”
Imagine that, Murgatroyd.
From President Obama on down, or up, it comes as a revelation to lefties that hard-working wealthy people not only have more money than you and me. By darn, they spend it on their children.
T’aint fair, I tell ya.
All of this in the same week that Ed Schultz of MSNBC declared that gays, not Jews, were the primary victims of the Holocaust.