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Does court-ordered desegregation ever end ? At first, the Supreme Court said school authorities would be under federal supervision until they had discharged the "affirmative duty" to eliminate the "vestiges" of segregation, "root and branch."
The condition of blacks is improving, but there is strong evidence--see, for example, Orlando Patterson's new book The Ordeal of Integration --that affirmative action has played an essential role in fostering both integration and the growth of the black middle class.
Above all, both of them are beneficiaries of affirmative action.
Why is it, for instance, that the LAT puts California's biggest social impact story in a generation, the upholding by a federal court of the proposition that overturns virtually all of the state's affirmative action programs, in a tiny box nearly at the bottom of the front page?
Ferguson decision (which upheld racial segregation) to argue that since segregation was a system of "racial classification," affirmative action is its modern equivalent.