There are two well-tested ways forward in a multiethnic society. One is segregation. Unless you are Swiss this gets enforced in Lenin's direction: who/whom. Another is integration. This gets enforced by neutral parties. By definition, such parties won't be living with the consequences. You can see why people keep thinking (or hoping) for alternatives.
Chloe Valdary last week picked up Derrick Bell's Silent Covenants and found something striking: in Bell's application of "critical-theory" to race, Bell wanted school choice without forced busing. Without irony if you liked your school you could keep your school.
Bell sounded a lot like... Thomas Sowell. Sowell may or may not have been aware of this. Most on the Right are unaware. The Left of course doesn't care because their sole motivation is to bash the fash, fash being Lenin's whom.
On "Kendi" Rogers' so-called equity, Valdary agrees with Richard Hanania. Namely, it's mainstream of Civil Rights.
WEB DuBois, after 1934 when the New Deal disillusioned him, went more to Bell's side. Note, 1929-35 is when DuBois was compiling Black Reconstruction. Leave aside what we say about DuBois' opponents today. Did DuBois ever have regrets?
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