The seminal Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was ruled upon unanimously in 1954, in which it was decided that racial segregation of school children was unconstitutional because separate educational facilities for minority students was clearly not equal in quality to that of the favored majority race. The court instructed that such was to be ameliorated "…on a racially nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed…" It is now been sixty-six long years since this judgment was put into effect, of which, "all deliberate speed" has come and gone, with seemingly a very minimal effect; of which a very strong argument can be made that our public school system still suffers from essentially the same systemic segregation that this decision was supposed to rectify, and without a doubt, that the purposeful segregation of our public school education is still unequal and unfair, of which the favored race, still has and continues to maintain a separate and superior public school system, far more times than naught over racial minorities, and of which, it must be said, that there are few public school systems that are actually integrated.
While there are myriad reasons why the foregoing is so, of which some are unintended, and others are quite clearly intended by those parties of interest; none of this serves to resolve the problem as it exists; of which, it is the children that are the ones that suffer for having to go to public schools which are inadequate, segregated, and substandard, as well as it being this country that suffers for deliberately permitting so many of its children, to be ill educated and without opportunity or hope.
The only possible solution to today's continuing problem of the systemic segregation of our public school system, as well as the inferiority of those public schools that are prevalent in minority communities is for the federal government to get involved, and to get involved via the only means that will produce a clear and meaningful result in a relatively short period of time so as to ameliorate the second-rate quality of that education so suffered from our minority brethren. This thus signifies that the only avenue to correct such, is by the nature of the purse, that the federal government controls, of which, no single entity controls more money than the federal government, and what that federal government so provides, is the very same thing, it can also take away. So that, this federal government needs to make it the national standard that every State of this union will be evaluated in regards to their public school system, and every State so found to be in violation of segregation as well as the inferiority of public schools for those that are the minority, will be subject to having all federal funding revoked from said State, forthwith; unless such a State provides both a plan of action, with a specific substantive timetable, and adheres to such, so as to correct their public school system to eliminate said segregation and inferiority, from that public school system.
The whole point of the decision so rendered in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was to see to it that each school child of this great nation, no matter their income or their race, would be provided a proper education. This has not been done, and needs to be done, and not with all deliberate speed, but right here, and right now.