Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was THE decision that declared unequivocally that segregation was illegal.

Have you ever hard of Rosa Parks?  (No connection, just wondering...)

This case ws the leading factor to the desegregation of schools.  It showed through physical examination the black childs preferance for white dolls and how he viewed all successes as only white.  All good things are white syndrome.  The black children chose over 80 or 90% the white doll with straight blonde hair. 

The world they were to participate in didn't value them as people.  The courts ruled to give us the chance to change that perspective where they would learn to love their people too.  That's the importance in our society, we have to see people like us to function as a whole for progress.  EXAMPLE;  You are a child under ten, at you impressionable years.  If all you see are black leaders and mentors, presidents, business leaders, would you listen to a poor white, who had nothing, house, clothes, shoes, suits, cars, finance.  This allowed us equal access to education with educated teachers, and although we bore the brunt from the 50's until 1965, when the marches started, it is still just as important today to have like mentors to communicate to our youth in times of trouble to straighten them out.

Since 1977, the laws on diciplining our children were taken away because a few,(screwed up apples took dicipline to mean only arse kicking and took it to the extremes.  When the child was taken from the home and placed in a foster care home and it happened then too, the government took it upon themselves, to eliminate all physical punishment from parents of poor children.  Maybe they thought, children could guide themselves, while no parent was in the home.  It's just caboodle of shit, that destroys families.  Instead of getting that parent help from the stress of struggle day to day finances, they turn undiciplined kids into the streets, for the court system to lock up when they don't have the answers needed to control themselves under pressure. (Virginia Tech) 

It proved itself again, in the sixties and seventies when over 900 African American citizens, after getting severly weary of oppression and racism, followed a REV Jim Jones to Ghana, in hopes of living a respected life away from racism.  (Messiah Complex)

  Well, he was on LSD and those who didn't voluntarily take a poison were forced to do so.  They ran from the problems of oppression and racism to live in peace, in Heaven.  duh!  The only ones living in the land of milk and honey now are the rich.  Our freedom is our heaven, you can't take that away from us.  We will fight to the death for it. 

Anyway, the Jim Jones thing really worked at our nerves.  Searching for a white messiah because he had the money nad power to lead you down the path of suicide and hell.  See what I mean.

It's a horrible story.

Check it out , they had it on three days ago on documentary channel at 11pm.

I relived it and cried at the pleading for justice in America.  This happened after the Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy Assassinations, all in the 60's. 

America's Real Shock and Awe, of hopelessness.  I hope I have been of some help to give you some insight.  Some people don't realize we all didn't live through it as it unfolded.  I am 47, that puts me right there in the mix and is why we started the Black Panthers to keep these dope headed false profits from leading our elderly and young down the wrong path, right under our noses.  It turned black people from churches lead by white preachers.  One bad apple can spoil a whole bunch.

We have one bad apple in the White House now.  Let's prevent the next catastrophie.

mommapanther

The Executive Branch and the POTUS are at the mercy of the Congress, and this has been proven time and time again. As long as the neocons are in charge of Party policy and corporate money-laundering, the POTUS can only suggest change, but not demand it. The president has no power to enact campaign law reform, to mandate term limits, or in any fashion, separate the Congressional neocons from their corporate pimps.

The POTUS is virtually powerless without Congressional support, and becomes very dangerous with total partisan support and lack of oversight. The Congress was Constitutionally designed to be the voice of the People, and NOT the current, temporary, POTUS. The Congress and the SCOTUS are institutions, while the Executive Branch is nothing more than temporary hired help.

And lastly, we Democrats are working very hard to clean up our side of the street. What are "Independents," Republicans, and Third-Parties doing besides whining and embracing apathy while waiting for a "savior" to come to their rescue? Constitutional integrity and American values can not be restored from the top down -- they must be pushed from the bottom up.

Bet on it...

Except Obama was against this war from the very beginning and he will bring our troops home, Hillary has no chance this time, she's a war mongerer.

I'm waiting for Wesley Clark to run.