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...landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision a half-century ago, a unanimous Supreme Court struck down the infamous “separate but equal?? racial policy. That policy of absolute racial separation had been decreed by the Supreme Court in the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896. However, that minimal legal acknowledgement of the humanity of African-Americans was never enforced. Their lives were separate but never equal, from the “colored” hospital wards where they were born to the racially-segregated graveyards where they were buried. As a confused six year...
...separate-but-equal?? laws began on Monday, May 18, 1896, when the Court voted 7 to 1 that Adolph H. Plessy could be set apart in a Louisiana railroad car solely because of his race. It is ironic that, on a Court with only one Southerner and four graduates of Harvard and Yale, only John Marshall Harlan—himself a former slaveowner—dissented with words as evergreen as the cedars of Lebanon: “There is no caste here. Our constitution is color-blind?...
...meet a standard based on the average academic qualifications of all students at that school.” Since Harvard’s average academic qualifications are higher than those of Cornell’s, pardon me if I refer to this as the “separate, but equal?? clause...
...plan, as stated, would alleviate this disparity without forcing same-sex schools on anyone; in no case would students lose the right to attend a coed school. School districts would also have to ensure that their all-boys and all-girls schools and classes are “substantially equal?? between genders...
...equality without violating the rights of those who do not support gay marriage. Such unions could be open to both homosexual and heterosexual couples in place of religious marriages. They would in no way demean or lessen the status of homosexual individuals or create “separate but equal?? institutions reminiscent of racial segregation. Instead, civil unions uphold the rights of all men and women, regardless of sexuality...