By GottaLaff
For those hippie stoners who want to relive the sixties, here you go:
A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county's only majority-white school, the U.S. Justice Department announced.
The order, issued by Senior Judge Tom S. Lee of the U.S. District Court of Southern Mississippi, came after Justice Department civil rights division lawyers moved to enforce a 1970 desegregation case against the state and Walthall County.
I was listening to someone on a progressive radio station today (I wish I could remember who, and hopefully one of you will remind me) who was adamant that the most important issue of the day does not involve who ends up being the Supreme Court nominee or who wins the 2010 Congressional elections. No, it's President Obama's sluggish, molasses-like pace in filling federal judge slots, and replacing some with ones who might even have, you know, 21st century mindsets.
Currently, the guest reminded us, they are occupied by Rovian dreams-come-true and control our lives more than anyone in the country. And that's just the way BushCo wanted it.
We can see why replacing Bush era judges is mandatory. Stat.
"More than 55 years after Brown v. Board of Education, it is unacceptable for school districts to act in a way that encourages or tolerates the resegregation of public schools," said Thomas E. Perez, U.S. assistant attorney general in charge of the civil rights division, in a written statement. "We will take action so that school districts subject to federal desegregation orders comply with their obligation to eliminate vestiges of separate black and white schools."
You can read the entire piece here.
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