Star Ledger Has It Wrong

Today's "oops of the day" comes from the NJ Star Ledger. In the paper's editorial, the editorial staff state:

"The justices (US Supreme Court) will decide whether school districts have the legal authority to consider race as a factor when assigning students to a school - a practice common across the nation." This is simply false.

First, the US Supreme Court is not deciding the constitutionality of school "desegregation" based on race but rather if the way in which the two defendants are implementing school "desegregation" is constitutional. Two different questions.

Secondly, I put the word "desegregation" in quotes because as the Star Ledger admits,
"Fifty-two years after legally sanctioned segregated schools were declared unlawful, (sic) it is a great shame that public schools are more segregated today than in 1970." Therefore how can we call it "desegregation" if it doesn't desegregate? The Star Ledger inexplicably recommends the country maintain the current mechanisms even though the Star Ledger admits they aren't working.

Whether or not race quotas, affirmative action or any of the other means currently in use to achieve "diversity" across the country are constitutional is a good question, but clearly they aren't resulting in diversity. There is that famous Ned Lamont TV ad during the Connecticut senatorial campaign showing a car continuously crashing into a brick wall. Lamont's point was the Bush admin should change its Iraq strategy because it wasn't working. Perhaps the country should decide on another way of achieving "diversity".