I pretty sure that housing segregation is not allowed under the civil rights act. People have the right to live where they want regardless of skin color, assuming they can afford to live in said place.
And yet there it is, no longer de jure but still very much de facto. Admittedly many of these homeowners bought their homes back when redlining was legal, or inherited it from their parents who bought it under segregated circumstances. Hell, I’ve got a covenant on my property from 1954 that I believe literally says no “negroes or yellow races” can live on the property, except as servants. Sure it’s unenforceable now, but it was normal then. But I’d like to get it removed in case the legal landscape changes and it’s enforceable again (it’s hard to remove because the covenant was applied to a vast swath of land, not just my property).
again school segregation is unconstitutional.
If 100% of the people living in your district are of a certain race, their schools inherit their racial segregation from the housing segregation, now that busing is pretty much over. De jure or de facto, amounts to the same thing.
And that’s not even considering places like where I went to school, where the school was integrated, but the individual classrooms were not.
? Please explain. Also how is this not sued out of existence?
About 30% of my school was racial minorities. But there were “tracks”: remedial, general, college prep, International Baccalaureate. It wasn’t segregated directly by race, but you could walk into an I.B. classroom and be blinded by the whiteness. Segregation by racial proxies (teacher recommendations were a big factor, and that could easily have a strong bias), failing to address other racial inequities, gets you the same results. A minority could get into the higher tracks, and they occasionally did, but they often outclassed the whole school, when simply being pretty bright was enough for the rest.
And don’t even get started with the lunchroom. That was discouraging.