RACISM IS A FRAME OF MIND--REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD (BEATTLE'S BOOK) . . . WHITE MAMA, BETTE DAVIS--THOSE BETTE DAVIS EYES! YOUTUBE FREE MOVIE, HOT BLACK ACTOR, CREDITS TOO FAST TO CATCH NAME, OLD MOVIE . . . LOVE CONQUERS ALL, A GREAT MOVIE FOR WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW! IN LIGHT OF THE GRAND JURIES, IN THE BROWN AND GARNER CASES! COPS IN FEAR . . . HOW DOES IT FEEL! TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT . . . SO WHAT NEXT? THE ALANTIC MAGAZINE, MAY 2014 ISSUE, SEGREGATION--SIXTY YEARS AFTER BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION, SOUTHERN SCHOOL SYSTEMS ARE QUIETLY RESEGREGATING, PARTICULARLY BY SEQUESTERING POOR BLACK STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS OF THEIR OWN. HERE IS THE STORY OF RESEGREGATION IN TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA--A STORY OF BACKROOM DEALS, DIFFICULT COMPROMISES, AND DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES. "tHE ONLY WAY TO GET GOOD SCHOOLS IS TO HAVE WHITE PEOPLE IN THEM." "MONEY FOLLOWS KIDS, AND THE LOSS OF WHITE STUDENTS WAS VERY, VERY CRITICAL." IN SOME WAYS, ALL-BLACK SCHOOLS TODAY ARE WORSE THAN DRUID HIGH WAS BACK IN THE 1950'S, WHEN YOUR BLACK STUDENTS MIXED WITH AFFLUENT AND MIDDLE-CLASS ONES. DESPITE THE CHALLENGES, LARGE NUMBERS OF BLACK STUDENTS STUDIED THE SAME ROBUST CURRICULUM AS WHITE STDENTS, AND STUDENTS OF BOTH RACES MIXED PEACEFULLY AND THRIVED. THE OVERWHELMING BOYD OF RESEARCH SHOWS THAT ONCE BLACK CHILDREN WERE GIVEN ACCESS TO ADVANCED COURSES, WELL-TRAINED TEACHERS, AND ALL OTHER RESOURCES THAT TEND TO FOLLOW WHITE, MIDDLE-INCOME CHILDREN, THEY BEGAN TO CATCH UP. RUCKER JOHNSON'S STUDY, 2014, FOUND THAT BLACK AMERICANS WHO ATTENDED SHOOLS INTEGRATED BY COURT ORDER WERE MORE LIKELY TO GRADUATE, GO ON TO COLLEGE, AND EARN A DEGREE THAN BLACK AMERICANS WHO ATTNEDE SEGREGATED SCHOOL. THEY MADE MORE MONEY; FIVE YEARS OF INTEGRATED SCHOOLING INCREASED THE EARNINGS OF BLACK ADULTS BY 15 PERCENT. tHEY WERE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS LIKELY TO SPEND TIME IN JAIL. tHE WERE HEALTHIER. NOTABLY, RUCKER ALSO FOUND THAT BLACK PROGRESS DID NOT COME AT THE EXPENSE OF WHITE AMERICANS--WHITE STUDENTS IN INTEGRATED SCHOOLS DID JUST AS WELL ACADEMICALLY AS THOSE IN SEGREGATED SCHOOLS. SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, WE ALL BENEFIT, WHEN EVERYONE IS GIVEN EQUAL ACCESS TO EDUCATION, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE WAY TO ADVANCE IN ANY AREA OF LIFE. EDUCATION IS A GREAT WAY TO START THE HEALING PROCESS OF RACISM. WE STARTED, THEN FELL BACK, AND EXPERTS SAY, THAT WITH THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT OBAMA, THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT, THAT RACISM HAS GOTTEN WORSE, NOT BETTER, AND IT IS BLACKS, WHO HAVE GOTTEN MORE SO! SO EVERYONE NEEDS TO WORK TOGETHER TO IMPROVE, AMERICA, WHOLISTICALLY! SUCCESS, ADVANCEMENT, AND ACHIEVEMENT IS SOMETHING WE WANT FOR EVERYONE! WE ALL BENEFIT! THE REPUBLICANS, AS OF MY READING YESTERDAY, ARE EVEN PUTTING A HOLD ON HEALTHY LUNCHES FOR OUR SCHOOLS, SOMETHING FIRST LADY, MICHELLE OBAMA PUSHED! SO WE WILL CUT OFF OUR CHILDRENS, NOSE TO SPITE OUR FACES? WE WOULD RATHER THE CHILDREN EAT POORER FOOD, THAT TAKE THE HEALTHY SUGGESTIONGS AND WILL HELP LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF OBESITY, ONE OF THE NUMBER ONE CAUSES OF DEATH, RATHER THAN FOLLOW A BLACK FIRST LADY . . . SHOCKINGLY AMAZING! I READ A GREAT QUOTE, THIS MORNING IN THE MISSOULIAN NEWSPAPER, MONTANA . . . UNAFRAID TO SPEAK HIS PEACE, AT 93, RABBI LEONARD BEERMAN STILL STIRS PASSIONS WITH HIS PACIFIST VIEWS. IN HIS LAST SPEECH, HE SAID, "OUR WORLD NEEDS TROUBLED PEOPLE, JEWS EVEN. MEN AND WOMEN WHO CARE. WHO ARE NOT ASHAMED TO BE SENSITIVE AND TENDER . . . WHO CAN RESIST ALL THOSE, FRIENDS, AND ENEMIES, WHO SEEK TO PREVENT US FROM SEEING THE UTTER UNIQUENESS AND IRREPLACEABILITY OF OUR OWN AND OTHERS' SOULS." ANOTHER QUOTE FROM THE SEGREGATION ARTICLE, "IT WAS TOTALLY ORCHESTRATED. IT WAS AWFUL, I FELT POWERLESS. I REMEMBER SITTING IN CHURCH AFTER ONE OF THE VOTES (MAKING A NEW SCHOOL, 50% BLACK AND 50% WHITE, WITHOUT FEDERAL CONTROL) . . . NO ONE WOULD SIT WITH ME, BECAUSE I VOTED WITH THE BLACK MEMBERS." GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS, BLACK, WHITE, MALE, FEMALE, JEW, GENTILE . . . SO WHY IN THE HELL DO WE THINK WE CAN BE. IF YOU CAN'T LOVE A MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD, YOU CAN SEE, HOW CAN YOU LOVE A GOD YOU HAVEN'T SEEN? THINK ABOUT THAT TOMORROW AT CHURCH, WHILE YOU STEW IN YOUR PEWS! THE TWO GREAT COMMANDMENTS ARE TO LOVE GOD, AND YOUR FELLOW MEN! THAT IS PURE RELIGION! HAVE A GREAT SUNDAY, AND AT LEAST TRY TO HAVE SOME CARRY OVER FROM YOUR LESSONS, SERMONS, PREACHINGS, THAT SPILL OVER INTO MONDAY AND THE REST OF THE WEEK! HAVE A GOOD ONE, TOMORROW, KEEP IT HOLY IF IT FEELS RIGHT TO YOU!