European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                40 years after Clarence Page of much Progress have we made since the supreme courts landmark Brown is. Board of education decision 40 years ago in a glad you asked. When Brown was decided we americans of Black african descent were called a a coloured  today we re More Likely to be called a peo pie of  is that Progress or what when Brown was decided Black people were so rare in the mainstream which is to say a a White Media that any member of our household who. Spotted one usually a Singer or dancer on the new piece of furniture known As a a tvs would Call out to everyone else just to let them know that somebody a co Loredo was on the air. Today America embraces the likes of Oprah Winfrey Bill Cosby de Bradley Carol Simpson Colin Powell and the two Michaels Jordan and Jackson in ways that would have been unimaginable in the Early 1950s. Is that Progress or what How about school segregation Browne a major thrust before Brown a a separate schools were Okas Long As they kept up the pretence of being  today a schools unfortunately have Only dropped the pretence. A Harvard study reported last fall that de Facto racial segregation in americans schools has increased to its highest level since 1967. A the civil rights impulse of the 1960s is dead in the water a declared Gary Orfield a longtime supporter of school busing who directed the Harvard study. Later in the Winter a University of Michigan study published in american sociological review showed Blacks Are still More Likely to live in segregated neighbourhoods than asians or hispanics even though most Blacks Tell pollsters they prefer to live in an integrated neighbourhood. Residential segregation is dropping so slowly a it will take another 40 or 50 years for Blacks to reach Levels,., now observed among latinos and asians a a says one of the study a authors. Is that Progress then what in the 1950s we had segregationists who excused segregation on the basis of Black inferiority. Today we have Neo conservatives who excuse segregation on the basis of Black crime. A americans would not object to Denzel Washington or Whitney Houston moving in next door a James Pinkerton former president Bush a Domestic policy aide writes in the los Angeles times. A but. They would have a problem with tupac shakur or Snoop Doggy  right. And i would rather have Robert de Niro or Julia Roberts living next door to me than Tanya Harding or Axel rose., is that Progress or what i usually respect the views of Pinkerton now a Bright Young empowerment conservative at the Manhattan Institute. But i have the same problem with his reference to shakur and Doggy Dogg two rappers who have had serious Ruth ins with the Law that i had with the 1988 Bush campaigns use of Willy Horton to arouse White backlash voters or . Griffith a use of a White Man in blackface makeup chasing a fair Young White woman in birth of a  a a it is a sad persistent dirty Little secret of american race relations that Whites tend to expect us Blacks to judge them by their highest achievers while too often Whites tend to judge Blacks by our lowest. Blame it of White consciousness. Conservatives and monocultural its often get upset when Black people talk about a Black consciousness a but White people in America have a racial consciousness too whether they notice it or not. As a child in Southern Ohio i began to develop a consciousness about race the first time my parents told me i could not go to a nearby amusement Park because a that Park is just for White  the More questions i asked the More i developed the consciousness of a person on the losing end of american apartheid. White americans similarly develop a consciousness although it generally is considered impolite to talk about it since it sounds like something the old undiluted David Duke or some other White supremacist would say. Lbs the Cobrac Cable Bill Cosby. Also members of dominant cultures done to talk about it much since they take their status for granted. Only Blacks and other minorities who must meet the standards of the mainstream need to be conscious of it. The legacy of Brown is Board of education is a legacy of desegregation and considerable assimilation but not necessarily integration. Desegregation knocks Down Laws that separate the races. Assimilation invites a select number of Blacks into White so City who pass the test of White consciousness then dismisses the rest As so Many Willy Horton tupac shakers and Snoop Doggy dogs. True integration unlike the one Way acceptance of assimilation involves More of a cultural sharing Between members of different racial groups cultural sharing is too sophisticated of a process to be legislated although anti discrimination Law s can make it occur More easily. Cultural sharing helps All to understand  the problems of one group Are everyone a problems in a pluralistic society. As Long As some have bad schools for example we All suffer. Its a lesson most Macri. Cans have yet to learn i Hope it does no to take another 40 years for us to figure out All of us together. Chicago Tribune. Andy Rooney ver the Rainy weekend i brought the Kitchen step Stool into the living room climbed up and looked on the top shelves at some of the old books that Haven to been read in years a or maybe never. Everything looks so bad in the papers and on television news that you have to look everywhere for something right about America if you want to feel Good about it. In a collection of historical documents i found the Gettysburg address Winston Churchill a Victory speech after world War ii our Constitution and a Long Section on German Laws passed during hitlers regime. There was a chapter called Quot the Nur Emburg Laws on race and citizenship 1935.�?� it has always struck me As strange that when the nazis set out to exterminate the jews they were so careful to do it legally. If they wanted to do something illegal they first passed a taw to make it Legal. Here a a chapter called a Law for the Protection of German blood and  a a citizen of the Reich May be Only that subject who is of German or Kindred blood and who through his behaviour shows that he is both desirous and personally fit to serve loyally the Reich and the German people. A a jew cannot be a citizen of the Reich. A a jew is an individual who is descended from three grandparents who were full jews. A a jew is also an individual who is descended from two full jewish grandparents if a the was a member of the jewish religious Community a the is married to a jew. A a the is the Issue from a marriage with a jew. A the is the Issue of an extramarital relationship with a jew and will have been born out of Wedlock after july 31,1936.�?� another Section of the Law starts this Way a imbued with the knowledge that the purity of German blood is the necessary prerequisite for the existence of the German nation. The Reich Stag a has unanimously adopted the following Law a any marriages Between jews and citizens of German blood Are herewith forbidden. Marriages in to Rcd into despite this Law Are invalid even if they Are arranged abroad in order to circumvent this Law. A extramarital relations Between jews and citizens of German or Kindred race Are herewith forbidden. A jews Are forbidden to employ As servants in their households female subjects of German blood who Are under 45 years of  the implication Here is i guess that a German woman servant Over 45 who had an affair with the Boss would t have a baby a jews Are prohibited from displaying the Reich and National Flag and from showing the National  a a a however they May show the jewish colors. The exercise of this right is under state  strange a these Laws shall go into effect Jan. 1, 1936.�?� it maybe difficult to find Good things about America these Days but we Are Ali equal before the Law and even the most bigoted among us would t stand for it any other Way. Thais something Good anyway. Tribune Media services Andy Rooney is a former stars and stripes reporter May 29.1994 sunday. Page 9