Segregation Persists

Law to Segregate Omaha Schools Divides Nebraska
By SAM DILLON
The law calls for dividing public schools into three
racially distinct districts, one black, one white and one
Hispanic.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/us/15omaha.html?th&emc=th

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It is sad to see this emblematic reminder that racism still divides the U.S. in terrible ways -- particularly in the north where geography still marks the border lines between ethnic communities.

The lesson here is that there is no simplistic legal solution for deeply embedded prejudices in societies. And the decline in the socially healing forces of social justice embedded in our religious traditions at the time MLK, Jr. voiced his dream does not bode well for the prospects of changing the hearts and minds of many now feeling the economic pressures on the U.S. presented by the global competition for jobs.
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