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Title: Return to segregation? {Opinion}
Post by: LostInTime on July 06, 2007, 08:07:53 AM
Washington Blade (http://www.washblade.com/2007/7-6/view/columns/10884.cfm)
REV. IRENE MONROE
Friday, July 06, 2007

In a 5-to-4 vote, a slim majority of justices ruled to limit the use of race in order to maintain or achieve school diversity. While most Americans are fatigued by how race has been used to either pummel a society for not using it enough or picketing against a society for its overuse, this recent decision will have repercussions that will affect not only students of color, but also female as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students. Why?