America was better when the races were seperate, agree or not and why?

Question

We can clearly see that the USA started it's slide to destruction with Brown v Board of Ed. It has never stopped going downhill since.

john s

That is the most insightfull, well written response I have seen to anything on this forum. TY

Answer 1

i believe you have your facts all wrong, where did you get this stuff, did you pull it out of your ***?!@? No things were not better when the races were seperate you racist pig! It's people like you that need to be seperate from everyone else. Not the races!!!

Answer 2

No. America is better when there is more of an amalgamation, or an assimilation of cultures and ideas. Separate cultures and ideas result in conflict, and tend to be divisive. This is the main reason why the Soviet Union broke up; there were too many ethnically separate republics that had nothing in common. It's why Yugoslavia broke up, and it's why iraq should be split into three separate ethnic areas.

The Japanese thought that the US could be defeated in WW2 because the US was made up of a great number of different nationalities who had come together from Europe and elsewhere. It was their assumption that all these different people could never pull together in a common effort. What the Japanese failed to realize is that these new immigrants to America did not view themselves as different cultures and ethnicities separate within the whole, but viewed themselves as Americans first and foremost.

Separatism within a society is never good, and this is precisely the problem with the vast number of illegal Mexicans inthe US who have no intention of becoming a part of the society but only seek to draw from it and take as much as they can and send it back to Mexico. This is the real problem, separatism, for it tends to pull things apart.

Brown vs Board of Ed tried to address a separatism issue by ruling that segregation in school was an inequality issue, but ultimately served to create other problems in its wake.

Answer 3

I taught in a major state university for nearly forty years, and retired in 1996, and in those years I saw significant changes, but these had nothing to do with Brown V. Board directly. Brown V. Board represents a dimension of what the Courts have labeled "Our evolving sense of decency."

Our constitution is the worlds oldest written constitution, and the reason for that is that it is flexible, adaptable to the unfolding of changes in the society occasioned both by technology and by an unfolding moral awareness of things. France is on its Fifth constitution since the collapse of the Second Empire because their written Constitution are unadaptive and inflexible.

Part of the flexibility of our document is in the document itself. It is difficult, but not impossible to amend it. The second force of flexibility comes from the power of judicial review. We no longer live with "separate but equal" because of what conservatives have come to call "activist judges," which to the mindless carries a pejorative meaning. We rely, in fact, on "activist judges" to bring our laws into line with our sense of right and wrong as it operates in a developing society, experiencing the force of change from sources umdrempt of in the days of the Founders.

Now, what I did observe in the years of my life as a university professor was a steady decline in the overall quality of students. We now accept the idea that "the playing ground should be level," and that means that everyone who wishes should be able to go the college. The realization of this ideal has necessarily meant the adjustment of standards of entry to include homes where there is not much of a committment to learning, and sometimes not even a magazine in the house. Such home exist in very middle class communities, and have little to do with income and nothing to do with race.

The admission as students of young people who do not even speak standard English and have no idea of how to write the language, is not entirely an altruistic committment by administrators, especially those at public institutions. They have learned that they need numbers to offer the legislators in demanding increased funding. For this reason, there is pressure on faculty to "retain" students, even those who are not producing. Faculty are pressured to adjust standards to meet this demand. That situation, what may me called "the democritization of post secondary education," was very difficult to live with. It had nothing to do with Brown v., and everything to do with academic politics.

I might add that in summer terms I dealt with returning secondary teachers some of whom were, if anything, worse than their former students. For this fact there is also a political cause, but that is another story.

Answer 4

Back up your statement. How do you 'clearly see' that the USA started it's slide to destruction? I don't see it.

Granted, of course, your 'nickname' speaks for you it would appear.

Answer 5

Study the concept of cause and effect, and then go back and piece together a timeline. The facts will prove that you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to historical events. Brown v. Board was only one step is a series of events that began long before the court decision.

Answer 6

You may be on to something here. Plus liberals took over education and despite billions and billion our system today sucks compared to when I went to school.

Answer 7

You are incorrect. What facts do you have to prove that the USA starting going downhill at that point?

Answer 8

America is diverse, get over it. If you don't like, you move away.

Answer 9

What makes you think that hatred from afar is any less that hatred up close,and personal..???

Answer 10

Why don't you channel your hate into something productive..........
Like cutting your wrists for example. You know, something for the betterment of mankind.............