Antiracist resource reallocation was rejected by both assimilationists and segregationists alike

Evidence

Warren essentially offered a racist opinion in this landmark case: separate Black educational facilities were inherently unequal and inferior because Black students were not being exposed to White students. Warren’s assimilationist problem led to an assimilationist solution over the next decade to desegregate American schools: the forced busing of children from Black schools to inherently superior White schools. Rarely were White children bused to Black schools. By the 1970s, segregationist White parents from Boston to Los Angeles were opposing forced busing, spitting on reformers all types of racist vitriol, while antiracist Black parents were demanding two-way busing or the reallocation of resources from the over-resourced White schools to the under-resourced Black schools. These antiracist plans were opposed by both assimilationists and segregationists, who seemed to assume, like the Court, that majority-Black schools could never be equal to majority-White schools. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 928

Categorization

• XREF: Directly demonstrates the three-way scheme in application — the key discomfort case where assimilationism’s remedy (one-way busing) and segregationism’s remedy converge against antiracist reallocation. Perfect test material for the stated reading goal. — connects to: Segregationist leaders urged privatization or abandonment of public lands rather than integration — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 278
• SEED: Angle: the Brown decision as the canonical case where Kendi’s causal inversion applies to a landmark liberal victory — a piece examining when an anti-racist-sounding outcome was delivered via racist reasoning.