The Supreme Court said yesterday it will hear appeals of two cases that could determine if race can be used in assigning students to public schools for the purpose of enhancing enrollment diversity in situations where court orders are not involved.  The court announced that it will take up the case this fall of a Louisville, Ky., woman who says the Jefferson County Public Schools' desegregation plan is unconstitutional because it barred her son from transferring to a better school. Her son is white....In the second case, a Seattle parents' group charges that a policy of the Seattle school district that allowed students to select their high schools but used race to decide who fills limited spots.....Last December, when Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was still on the bench, the Supreme Court rejected another case involving the use of race as a factor in school admissions to achieve diversity....Critics of such policies said the court's announcement that it will accept the appeals of the Seattle and Kentucky cases hints at a new aggressiveness by the court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who is also conservative, in dealing with race issues in public schools." Court takes 2 race-based school-assignment cases By Joyce Howard Price THE WASHINGTON TIMES June 6th http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060605-111142-4954r.htm

The benefit of racial quotas to the black community has been vastly overstated.  The overwhelming majority of racial set-asides go well-to-do Blacks who have the economic resources to compete with whites for jobs and educational opportunities. Despite vast set-asides and special preferences, black middle classes have not grown in the presence of racial quotas. The breakdown of the black family has have been a far bigger factor in the failure of our Black Community to achieve parity with whites. The Black family unit has been virtually destroyed by the culture war on marriage and family, and what little economic security Black families did enjoy as result has been destroyed. 

To the white working classes, racial quotas have long been viewed as the way the rich and connected pass off the burden of racism in America on down the economic ladder. After all, racial quotas in college admissions does NOT correct the injustice of legacy set-asides that rich playboys like President Bush rely on to get into the best colleges!  NO--all that affirmative action has accomplished is pitting the grandson of a Slovak mineworker with the great-grandson of a slave in competition for whatever slots are left open after the well-connected sons of the wealthy get first choice.

Why should the white working classes bear ALL of the burden of racism in America?