Kozol on C-SPAN2

The United States has ripped apart every single thing that was represented by the famous court decision Brown vs. Board of Education. [...] Ever since the early 1990s, the Supreme Court, in virtually its present make-up, except for former Justice Rehnquist, has ripped the guts out of Brown vs. Board of Education; all of the enforcement mechanisms in Brown were taken away and indeed the U.S. Supreme Court has gone so far as not simply to end legally mandating school integration [...], its also made it almost impossible to run voluntary school integration programs. It's prohibited some states from doing this—so that we're now at the extraordinary moment when a typical black child in the United States is more likely to go to a segregated public school than at any time since 1968, ironically, the year when Dr. King died.