So it turns out that this year is the 50th anniversery of Brown v Topeka Board of Education, the case that reversed the "Seperate but Equal" doctrine which rules American society for so long. With Brown came school busing and a lot of rezoning, and supposedly a racial harmony. The problem is that fixing the schools was like using a band-aid to fix a broken arm. The problem is not superficial.

I don't see much racial hatred, and that is a very good thing. Residential segregation is the real issue. In Atlanta, generally speaking, the white people live in the north and the black people live in the south. Obviously there are plenty of each in both areas, but this is truth in at least a 50%+1 manner. There was busing, and the white man learned that the black man was a human and deserved to be treated like one, or something like that. Even so, once they got home, nothing had changed from before. Their neighbors were mostly like them, the local playgrounds were full of the same. After spending their time at home with others of their race, children went to school and hung out with their friends, the same people that they live by and play with. The Supreme Court cannot force people to associate with other races, nor can the Supreme Court force people to live where they don't want to.

There is no way to legislate racial integration into residential demographics. That said, things are changing, just very slowly. In another hundred years or so we may finally be able to throw off the legacy of racism and segregation, but it's going to take a natural maturing of social attitudes, not a decree from above.