In the new Supreme Court case regarding school districts that want to move children around like game pieces because of "a compelling interest in diversity," RaceFreeZone says:
Because of race-preferences and racial engineering in our schools, we have this infamous phrase: if parents did not specify a child's race, the school district did so based on "visual inspection of the parents' or child's pigmentation." Pardon me, is this America or Auchwitz?
Diversity has no civil rights. We must reject "diversity" as a legitimate compelling interest for our public schools. Our public schools' only compelling interest should be to honestly and objectively increase the intellectual capacity and experience of whatever brand of human being is inside the school. That's it. Having "compelling interests" that are outside of basic individual education is anti-American social engineering and not the purpose for which taxpayers hire teachers and build schools.
"Diversity" is the new PC catch-phrase which must never be questioned. We at RaceFreeZone openly deplore the underlying political purposes of the "diversity" bandwagon. Diversity is not a god to be worshipped, and in the case of our schools is a negative concept. It does not celebrate or clarify the many different cultures of America; it only separates us into color-coded toy soldiers. "Diversity" does not recognize that "white" America is not a homogenous bloc, but in fact millions of individuals from different backgrounds, different cultures, a rich panoply of ideas, experiences and ethnic and political roots. "Diversity" does not recognize millions of mixed-race Americans. To divide America into black/white/brown/red/yellow and make us each check a box is contraproductive to the American dream and reduces each individual to a paint chip.
We reject the idea that using standard English as the national language is somehow racist. Our own relatives came to America speaking other languages, and worked very hard to learn English because they understood that English would give them their future prosperity and their children's hopes for better lives.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 bluntly states that no child will be moved to a particular school to promote racial balance: Whenever the Attorney General receives a complaint in writing--
(1) signed by a parent or group of parents to the effect that his or their minor children, as members of a class of persons similarly situated, are being deprived by a school board of the equal protection of the laws, or
(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin . . . " the Attorney General may take action to protect those people's civil rights against such actions (RFZ paraphrase).
It also says that: ". . . nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards."
RaceFreeZone recommends that all Americans read the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and indeed the entire Constitution, in which there is not one word about "diversity." Individuals have rights. Colors do not.
Diane Carey