If We are Colorblind, Will We Not See Brown?

This post, paltry as it is, is dedicated to Big D, Babu, and my students. Because of desegregation, because of integrated schools, I met all of them and my life is so much richer - so much more "color-full" - for the knowledge.

Enough of my own rage at my own inteligensia-class problems. Historians may one day mark yesterday as the day that the Supreme Court overturned the Brown decision, much as Brown overturned Plessy.* Because, if I were to begin to comment on this decision, my rage would make me completely incoherent (hence, I shy away from political posts), let me direct you to some sites where the writers are more skilled at focusing their own political rage:

• "Because MLK was not about judging white folks..." by brownfemipower at Woman of Color .
• "Payments" by Shark-fu at Angry Black Bitch.
• "Oh God" by Bitch PhD
• The post and links in "Notes on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights" compiled by Ralph Luker at Cliopatria.
• "So This is How We Stop Discrimination," by the Field Negro.
• "The Revenge of Strom Thurmond," by liberalamerican at Progressive Historians.
• "Notes on the School Integration Cases" by Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money.
• "Resegregation is the New Black" by Jill at Feministe.
• "We Were Never Blind, But When Will We See" by GayProf at Center of Gravitas (added 7/3/07)

In related Civil Rights discussions, see "What is this Going to Cost Me?" by GayProf at Center of Gravitas.

*I understand, from some legal scholars, that, technically, this is not precisely true; but practically, Plessy legalized segregation, Brown began the end of segregation, and this decision seems to approve of segregation.