Wait...Can They Do That?

Yesterday, like many Americans, we at the Blasphemy Blog were listening to the unexciting Roberts confirmation hearings. Judge Roberts is a skilled lawyer, which means he is good at sounding reasonable, but not interesting.

Anyway, at one point, Judge Roberts stated categorically, in response to a question from Senator Schumer of New York, that Brown v. Board of Education is settled law, that segregated schools are inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitutional. Good. Something we can all agree on, even in these troubled times.

Or so we thought.

It turns out that local governments in places like Utah and Texas are segregating children evacuated from New Orleans into separate classrooms, often at military bases or shelters. The President, who has apparently not consulted his nominee to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, is supporting this.

The local officials in Utah and Texas are saying that they want to avoid "disrupting" the schoolgoing experience of both the evacuees and the local students.

We at the Blasphemy Blog will give ten dollars to the first person who emails us with an example of some politician from the 1950s saying that allowing black students into white schools would be "disruptive."

Well, we're sure that, at the very least, these separate teaching facilities have resources equal to those of the local schools. Yes, they may be separate, but they're still equal. Separate, but equal...hmmm...