Talking Point # 7

"One More River to Cross", Charles Lawrence

Premise

• Race
• School
• Segregation
• Black
• White
• Brown vs Board of Education
• Supreme Court
• Justice

Author's Argument

Lawrence argues that Brown vs Board of Education is a law fosted a way of thinking about segregation that has allowed both the judicary and society at large to deny the result of race in America.

Evidence

1. Black Children are injured by the existence of a system of Segregation
2. Segregation's only purpose is to label or define blacks as inferior and exclude them from full and equal participation in society
3. Segregation is organic and self-perpetuating.

Comments

This was a very long piece and also hard to read. Other than that the article focus's on the issue of segregation. I can not imagine living in a segregated state; there is still segregation going on in the south, which is sad but not hard to believe since it started there. My first view of segregation was when I watched the Little Rock Nine movie, based on a true story.