“Before Brown, schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin,” the chief justice wrote in Parents Involved.
“Brown did not raise the issue of whether states could use race-conscious classifications to integrate schools,” wrote the legal scholar Joel K. Goldstein in a 2008 analysis and critique of Roberts’ opinion in Parents Involved.
This, you might say, is the Roberts two-step.
What’s left is the mark of racism, that is, race.
A landmark case about the legitimacy of race hierarchy — Brown v. Board of Education — becomes, in Roberts’s hands, a case about the use of race in school placement.
Persons:
Brown, Roberts, “ Brown, ”, Joel K, Goldstein, Roberts’s, “, Karen, Barbara Fields, —, What’s, — Brown, Education —
Organizations:
Fair, of Education, Education
Locations:
Brown, America