Friends,
All we can be is role models for our children. We know better and they do too. I see this in my contemporary students. And all those before - students have not changed. They know equality and equity, and that one without the other is inequality.
We must move forward, just as we did in the 1960s and 1970s. The Roberts Court has consistently suggested we have moved as far as we can with law, and 'the courts' cannot continue to acknowledge differences exist for reason. For this reason, they eliminate laws fostering equality and equity, suggesting without laws equality and equity are more likely.
It reminds me of the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decision - 'separate but equal' allows equality and thus is acceptable. We know it is not. Separate always means some communities have more and some less than necessary. And those with less often have less than is acceptable - less than humane.
The Brown v. Board decision (1954) recognized that 50 years of 'separate but equal' creates harm and denies children: denies all. It is for this reason that we have law. Because in its absence, we know inequality will manifest on the basis of status.
