Lawsuit: Mississippi fails to educate black children equally

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Jeff Amy, Associated Press
Updated 3:03 pm, Tuesday, May 23, 2017


JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is denying good schools to African American students in violation of the federal law that enabled the state to rejoin the union after the Civil War, a legal group alleged Tuesday.

The Southern Poverty Law Center wants a federal judge to force state leaders to comply with the 1870 law, which says Mississippi must never deprive any citizen of the "school rights and privileges" described in the state's first post-Civil War constitution.
 
That law still obligates Mississippi to provide a "uniform system of free public schools" for all children, but the state has instead watered down education protections in a white supremacist effort to prevent the education of blacks, the group said.

"From 1890 until the present day, Mississippi repeatedly has amended its education clause and has used those amendments to systematically and deliberately deprive African-Americans of the education rights guaranteed to all Mississippi schoolchildren by the 1868 Constitution," the suit states.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Mississippi-sued-over-unequal-education-for-black-11166929.php

[jaysunb]

1. They have more "Christian" schools per square inch

than anyplace on the planet. Easy to guess what that's all about.

[sandensea]

2. And the biggest reason?

Private schools - including (illegally) tax-exempt "christian" schools, as noted above.

These mushroomed across the Deep South in the wake of desegregation, and have basically become legal work-arounds to federal anti-discrimination laws.

Worse still, the fringe-right that has taken over the GOP in these states since the Limbaugh era began in the early '90s has been working non-stop to defund public schools (which often have a very good racial mix) - while doting all kinds of subsidies and exemptions to private schools.

In other words, they've been DeVossing it since long before DeVos.

[Equinox Moon]

3. I can't understand why people get up every morning with the goal

of making life more difficult for others. I have a lot of very derogatory words I want to use now.

(pausing and breathing)

But, the bottom line is, they are sick. There is no other explanation than mental illness. This institutional racism is mental illness and it is pervasive.

[BigDemVoter]

4. They have what we used to call their "private segregationist schools"--

i.e. "North Delta 'Academy'"
"Delta Christian 'Academy'"
"Jackson Prep". . .. . . . Etc. . . . These same people who send their kids to these shitty schools don't see why they should pay income tax, as their kids don't attend public schools. . . Sound familiar?

Their sole purpose for existence is to preserve a lily white environment for little Republicans.