Kozol Quiz No. 1 - America’s 30% Permanent Under-Caste

[johnkarls]

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1. Has the U.S. Government continually and consistently reported for the last half-century that 30% of America’s population is illiterate as defined by the ability to read the warning label on a can of rat poison?

2. What was Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (U.S. Supreme Court - 1954)? Did it declare unconstitutional segregation laws in 17 Southern and Border States providing for dual school systems under the Supreme Court’s infamous “separate but equal” 1896 decision in Plessy vs. Ferguson?

3. BTW, was the unanimous 9-0 Brown vs. Board decision written by Chief Justice Earl Warren? Was Earl Warren (Governor of California 1943-1953) most famous prior to Brown vs. Board for having been the California Attorney General 1939-1943 who was leading the charge to intern U.S. Citizens of Japanese heritage for the duration of World War II?

4. Who famously said – “How many divisions does The Pope have”?

5. Could Joseph Stalin have said the same thing about the U.S. Supreme Court? After all, isn’t it one thing for the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a decision on school segregation in the U.S., and quite another thing to enforce that decision?

6. Was the U.S. lucky at that time to have as U.S. President the 1948-1953 President of Columbia University? In regard to enforcement of Brown vs. Board, did the luck relate more to President Eisenhower’s having been Supreme Allied Commander - Europe 1943-1945 and Chief of Staff of the Army 1945-1948?

7. Nonetheless, did Eisenhower DO NOTHING about enforcing Brown vs. Board UNTIL AFTER HIS RE-ELECTION in 1956???

8. Was the focal point of Southern defiance in 1957 Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus calling out 10,000 troops of the Arkansas National Guard on 9/4/1957 to prevent 9 African-American students from entering Little Rock’s Central High School?

9. Was the nation then treated to 3 weeks of stand-off as President Eisenhower essentially kept saying “Don’t make me do it” and Gov. Faubus essentially kept replying “Over my dead body”?

10. On 9/24/1957, after three weeks of stand-off, did President Eisenhower finally nationalize the 10,000 Arkansas National Guard Troops and then, as their new Commanding Officer, order them to “stand down” while he ordered the 10,000-plus “Screaming Eagles” of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division to escort the 9 students into Central H.S., and then to establish an impregnable perimeter defense around the school???!!!

11. Did the 10,000 Arkansas National Guard Troops who had just been nationalized know that disobeying their new Commanding Officer would result in court martial?

12. And were the 10,000-plus “Screaming Eagles” of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division -- which had been created by Eisenhower in 1942 for its famous 1944 “Rendezvous With Destiny” parachuting into three different “drop zones” behind Nazi lines on “D-Day” followed by pivotal roles in other crucial battles with the Nazis, such as the Nazi counter-attack at “The Battle of the Bulge” which nearly succeeded -- an intimidating-enough sight to “keep the peace” in what could have been a very bloody and wide-ranging rebellion?

13. But has “Apartheid Schooling in America” (quotation from the title of our focus book) ever missed a beat???

14. Has America for the last half century herded its 30% Permanent Under-Caste into Inner-City GHETTOS???

15. Since K-12 education in America is financed primarily with property taxes and America’s Inner Cities have virtually no property-tax base for raising taxes, is it any wonder that America’s Inner-City schools ARE ABYSMAL even when contrasted with the “separate but UNEQUAL” segregated schools of the Old South before Brown vs. Board???

16. Have the schools of America’s Inner-City GHETTOS typically-featured SINGLE-DIGIT high school graduation rates???

17. Are the RARE graduates of America’s Inner-City schools typically woefully below grade level in reading, arithmetic, etc.???

18. Did the U.S. Supreme Court effectively “put the cork in the bottle and throw it away” with its decision in Parents vs. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007)???

19. Did Parents vs. Seattle School District No. 1 bar the use of voluntary busing to overcome America’s “Apartheid” housing patterns to achieve school integration???

20. Are the children born in America’s Inner-City GHETTOS ineligible for “The American Dream”???

[johnkarls]

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