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  1. Jul 2020
    1. equal educational opportunity to every person, regardless of race, color, or national origin

      This is so vague. This left a lot up to interpretation, and modern-day discrimination and systemic oppression took place.

    2. one to effectively eliminate busing

      Busing made things worse. It made white families angrier not only because of integration, but because of how this whole "busing" thing wasn't efficient for them.

    3. In addition to requiring separate classes to be created for students less than proficient in the English language, communication between students' parents and the school was to be required to be conducted in a language understood by the parents.

      Making schools culturally inclusive, and helping strengthen those that are deemed below academic standard (based on state standards I believe).

    1. Each suspect wielded his own knife.

      So powerful. This basically means that everyone may or may not have had the same reason for "white flight", but they all did it and wielded the knife of cutting off the tax base of urban areas.

    2. If border residents also fled the city as black migrants arrived, even though black enclaves were miles away, these departures signaled a concern about broader city finances rather than a dislike of immediate black neighbors.

      Proving that white flight is more of a financial thing.

    3. From 1940 to 1970, four million blacks settled in industrial cities in the North and West. As they moved in, the fraction of white metropolitan households living in the typical Northern or Western central city fell from two-thirds to one-third.

      A prime example of white flight in America. Whether the main cause was racism, "religiousness", or economic reasons, is unknown. But I believe that it was a mixture of them all.

    1. A majority of whites now endorse such integration, at least in principle.

      Some may just be doing it for status or reputation, but stand against it in their neighborhoods.

    2. region, crime rate, extent of school desegre- gation, percentage of the city population that is black, and age distribution within the city.

      This already shows that one of the factors of white flight is race, making it a racist act.

    3. policy proposals aimed at low- ering unemployment or achieving greater racial equality are being carefully scrutinized for their potential impact on further white flight

      It will to a mass exodus of white people.

    4. Most ominously, the bulk of those leaving appeared to be upper-class, high-status whites whose withdrawal would affect the city directly, through a re- duced tax base, and indirectly, by contributing to further deterioration of the social and physical environment in the central core.

      Whites left and took their wealth, funding, and privilege to the white suburbs.