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Originally posted by rammstein
This country was founded on having a weak federal government, with states having the majority of control. It is unfortunate that in that situation, it came down to the federal government stepping in to force a decision that MOST today would feel was right (ending segregation in schools). Hell, the civil war was a war over states' rights. But unfortunately, the states were fighting to keep slaves which makes it hard for us today to look down on the federal government's forcing of its own agenda back then.
How about now? The federal goverment is forcing its anti-drug agenda on states who have voted differently on the issue. Even if you are against the use of medical marijuana, is it better to have the federal govt strip the state of its right to decide because it happens to suppport your viewpoint? Or should the decision be made by a group of your fellow state residents?
Thinking about this, I can't help but to think that because the federal government stepped over its bounds in the past to impose laws which most (nationally) feel are just, that it somehow justified the removal of the individual states' voter rights.
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Around 1990-91 a school in Durham county North Carolina was found to be all black. The county and state government decided that it should be integrated, since the principles long ago voiced in
Gunnar Myrdal's book continue to be accepted as truth, though proven disastrous for minorities. There was trouble, politically speaking, because the families sending their children to this school had, over time, slowly made the school an all black institution and wanted it to stay that way. Although serious talk ensued, the last I heard, the parents of the children attending the school were successful in keeping the school racially intact.
There are a number of studies that prove integration in k-12 grades has had a huge negative effect on minorities, and absolutely no studies indicating a positive outcome. Naturally, there's political power blocks that have a vested interest in keeping what is now the status quo, but in my opinion, who is in school should be tailored to positive outcomes for each student, not a socialists dream state. The notion that blacks are just dying to associate with whites 6-8 hours a day in school is unmitigated rubbish.