Nebraska Uses Race To Divide School District

The Washington Times

The Nebraska Legislature voted yesterday to divide the Omaha school system into three districts -- one mostly black, one predominantly white and one largely Hispanic -- in a move decried as state-enforced segregation.
Supporters, including the bill's sponsor and the legislature's only black senator, said the plan would give minorities control over their own school board and ensure that their children are not "shortchanged" in favor of white youngsters.
Gov. Dave Heineman, a Republican, signed the measure into law.
Sen. Pat Bourne of Omaha decried the bill, which passed 31-16.
"We will go down in history as one of the first states in 20 years to set race relations back," the Democrat said.
"History will not, and should not, judge us kindly," said Democratic Sen. Gwen Howard of Omaha.

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