Comments on: The Rust Belt’s “Unfinished Business” of School Desegregation http://rustwire.com/2010/01/08/the-rust-belts-unfinished-business-of-school-desegregation/ News from the Rustbelt Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:01:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: John Morris http://rustwire.com/2010/01/08/the-rust-belts-unfinished-business-of-school-desegregation/comment-page-1/#comment-1403 John Morris Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:14:48 +0000 http://rustwire.com/?p=2831#comment-1403 We could pretty easily stop actively using taxpayer funds to subsidize the sprawl and separation we have today. Once again, our fine governments work in both directions at the same time. We build more big highways and subsidized parking garages/ We are concered about the environment--really? We slice up neighborhoods and promote seperation/ We want school integration. Really? We could pretty easily stop actively using taxpayer funds to subsidize the sprawl and separation we have today.

Once again, our fine governments work in both directions at the same time. We build more big highways and subsidized parking garages/ We are concered about the environment–really? We slice up neighborhoods and promote seperation/ We want school integration. Really?

]]> By: Sean Posey http://rustwire.com/2010/01/08/the-rust-belts-unfinished-business-of-school-desegregation/comment-page-1/#comment-1140 Sean Posey Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:58:34 +0000 http://rustwire.com/?p=2831#comment-1140 He makes the case for the integration of schools by social class; however, their is a primary reason for the resistance to school integration: race. From Compton to Cleveland racial integration has been fought tooth and nail. Thomas Sugrue's "Origins of the Urban Crisis" chronicles this perfectly by examining the widespread mobilization of white neighborhoods in Detroit to keep African Americans out. Nor is Detroit alone in this regard; the same story has repeated itself in major cities coast to coast. Really integrating suburbs and inner cities-a division born largely through white flight- will be immensely difficult. He makes the case for the integration of schools by social class; however, their is a primary reason for the resistance to school integration: race. From Compton to Cleveland racial integration has been fought tooth and nail. Thomas Sugrue’s “Origins of the Urban Crisis” chronicles this perfectly by examining the widespread mobilization of white neighborhoods in Detroit to keep African Americans out. Nor is Detroit alone in this regard; the same story has repeated itself in major cities coast to coast. Really integrating suburbs and inner cities-a division born largely through white flight- will be immensely difficult.

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