Reply #7: Absolute good? No. But, a helluva lot better than it was.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Desegragation wasn't, and isn't, about "forcing" people to love their fellow man. It was, and is, to repair hundreds of years of damage done to minorities by the ruling elite.

I'm old enough to remember the de facto Apartheid that we had in this country. I lived, briefly, in the south as a kid and went to a segregated school in the '50s. That was more than enough to convince me to join the civil rights movement later.

It's not about eating won-tons or liking Spike Lee, it's about the effects of racism that still exist in our society.