Separate but equal...

In listening to Bill Simon speaking on C-SPAN at a Heritage Foundation event regarding immigration, a thought came to mind.

He uses the word assimilation often, and cites our failure to require the assimilation of immigrants into American as the real problem at the core of our increasingly factionalized society.

What our grandparents called assimilation, many of them facing it head on as they moved through the channels of Ellis Island, is now known as xenophobia.

Similarly, the same leftists who once fought against the concept of "separate but equal" now seem to champion the idea.

50 years ago, the left pushed for a uniform system of education which offered the same curriculum to all students. All students should be allowed to attend the same school so as to not segregate our youth according to race.

Now, they seem content with ethnically divided neighborhoods comprised of many people who cannot speak English, nor do many wish to learn the native language. Similarly, it is often the children of immigrants who would benefit most by escaping the failing public schools often found in the densely populated immigrant neighborhoods of urban areas in America. But alas, the Democrats oppose school choice, thereby opposing the increase of educational opportunities of the most needy among us.

Instead, we are now being told by the "tolerant" left that ballots and driver's licensing exams should be available in languages other than English. We are told that diversity is good, and that our American culture is of no greater worth than that of the immigrant who comes here in an attempt to escape the culture of his country of origin. (Of course, the leftists never mention why so many people want to come here when their countries and societies are no worse than ours...)

Are modern Democrats now actively promoting the principles behind the famous Plessy v Ferguson decision they once opposed?