Funny you should make that comparison, Spot. Zelma Henderson, the last living plaintiff in the Brown v. Board of Education suit, just died yesterday in Topeka, Kansas:
At 88, Zelma Henderson enjoyed seeing how much things had changed.
Finally, she saw a black man running for president. And while she welcomed the chance to talk about her place in history, she wasn't one to constantly tout her role as one of Topeka's 13 plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education.
Zelma Henderson grew up in Oakley in western Kansas, where she attended school and socialized with whites. She resented the segregation she encountered after moving to Topeka in the 1940s. Her children, Donald, 6, and Vicki, 4, attended classes at the all-black McKinley Elementary School, 915 N.W. Western. The school was about 10 blocks farther away than the white Quincy Elementary.
It wasn't the quality of education that bothered Henderson. In interviews, she said the teachers in black schools were excellent. But black and white children needed to have the opportunity to play together and understand each other.
"The little children, when they began going to the integrated schools, they got to know one another as just little children and not black and white," she said in a 2001 newspaper interview.
I shouldn't be surprised that KK leaves essential facts out of her "writing," but it is worth recalling that the proposed anti-gay marriage amendment that Michelle Bachmann rode to fame specifically prohibited gay marriage "or its equivalent."
Who hijacked the middle ground on that one?
Once again Ms. Kersten bashes gay people. The Strib should be ashamed to print the hate speech of a community-destroying harpie like her. But they're not. I find it ironic that Kersten says the California decision promotes "toxic social division." Her whole purpose in life is stirring up toxic social division. Without it she might have to work for a living.
Never let facts get in the way for Katherine Kersten. I wonder how much of the column is ghost written by the Minnesota Family Council. Thanks for covering the column, so I don't have to read it.
Commenting by HaloScan
