Each generation finds it almost impossible to accept there are but few social experiments that have not been attempted before and no values that have not been tested. This awareness once strengthened America's regard and respect for precedent. It was accepted that local and regional customs were written in stone for a very good reason. These reasons were not a time-worn, out-dated vestige of a past period of history but rather they were tested behavior and action for a specific matter of public concern.
The American South, after generations of experience, had set in place precedents regarding the negro that considered his limitations but also protected the white citizens from negro cultural behavior. This mandated segregation in all aspects of life but especially in the public schools.
The Northern integrationists of the Civil Rights movement were quite content to gamble the safety and welfare of the white citizens of the South and go against the will and fear of its people in order to justify their erroneous concept of all men to share equally in all things.
There were two fallacies that were fostered upon America. The nation is still paying the price in 2012.
One untruth was that a society by sheer number of its voting citizens can defy moral law and then rely on the acquiescence of its people to pass judgement under the guise of the elected government. This, in turn, being justified by the supposed ability of all men to be equally competent in passing such judgement. This was another confusion between equality before the law with social and cultural equality.
What was purposefully overlooked was that the forced integration of its public education directly violated its counterpart of the South's freedom of association. Any form of association must be mutually desired and agreed upon by all participants. That includes supposed equality of association. The negro had and has not earned that.
A major failing of the South was to place the center of its moral case against integration on the issue of state's rights when it would have been more pertinent to object on the basis of anthropology.
There are readers of this blog who not only never lived at the time of the Civil Rights movement but have been brainwashed as to its true, socialist purpose. The movement must be described as it really was.
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