Reply #45: Take off your tinfoil hat because it's not necessary. [View All]

Some folks are open about wanting to return to segregation, in David Vitter's hometown of Metairie (also where David Duke lived and was elected in 1989), where the first wave of white flight went in the 1960s. I saw angry parents at a (post-Katrina) Jeff. School Board meeting complaining about 'bussing', etc.

"Judges rejects Jefferson desegregation plan
By Jenny Hurwitz, The Times-Picayune
March 14, 2008, 8:10PM

In an unexpected twist, a federal judge refused to sign a controversial proposed consent decree Friday that would have helped resolve a decades-old desegregation suit in the Jefferson Parish public school system, saying that the document failed to provide a "narrowly tailored solution" to fully desegregate the district and root out pockets of racial inequality. "

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http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/03/judges_rejects_jefferson_deseg.html

http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2009/08/jefferson_parish_schools_revis.html

http://blackparentsofjpps.blogspot.com/2009/07/chris-kirkhams-excellent-summation.html