Lawrence Post

Premise
-Race
-Hatred
-Segregation
-Making a change
-Success vs failure
-Struggle

Arguement
Lawrence argues that how ever difficult it was to bring together people of different racial backgrounds, the overall action was a success. There were so many things that really made segreating schools such and issue and even though at the time, there was every reason to believe that the segregation was wrong, judging by how the majority of the public acted to it, the moral outcome was just and needed to be done at some point in time.

Evidence
"If one views the Brown case narrowly, as a case intended to desegregate the nation's schools, history has been proven it a clea failure. On the other hand, the success of Brown cannot be measured by reference to desegregation statistics alon, or even by looking only at how the schools are doing it."

"Too often we have been sidetracked in our struggle because we have lost sight of our goal, or accepted the oppressor's definitions, or mistaken the means for the ends."

I thought that this peice was particularly difficult to read. I found a lot of the vocabulary pretty difficult to understand but managed my way throught it. I think the message that the facts of this case are very interesting and really caught my attention. I had heard about the case before but really didn't know too much about it. I kind of feel like an idiot for not really knowing more than I did before becuase of the extream importance and the impact this had on American history today. Not only the histroy part, but just the overall idea that it really was this difficult to allow different races into public school systems.