Briefly...

In doing an archive search for something from 2004{1}, I stumbled across a brief miscellaneous musing from that time that expressed an opinion I no longer recognized as my own. Here is that thread:

Briefly on the Unconstitutionality of Brown vs. Board of Education, Etc.

An inevitability that one runs across when they muse and write on subjects over a span of time is that from time to time, they will discover that they have changed their view on some issues. I noted last year this phenomenon when trying to pinpoint exactly when my view changed on another particular political issue{2} after a similar archival discovery. On the above issue however, it is not to my knowledge a subject I have explicitly discussed at any other time. For that reason, a similar pinpointing of when my position changed would be very difficult to do.{3}

If I was to summarize the substance of my current view on the matter; it would essentially be in a macro sense{4} the fundamentals of Judge John Marshall Harlan's dissent in Plessy v Ferguson: a ruling which indirectly informed the majority decision of Brown v Board of Education.

I note these things at the present time in the interest of both accuracy and fairness. And though I have no intention of delving into this matter in the foreseeable future; if I do, it will be from a different application of the foundational presuppositions that I have operated from throughout the lions share of my adult life.

But enough on that for now.

Notes:

{1} On a matter totally unrelated to the content of this posting.

{2}  On the Changing of One's Positions (circa January 31, 2018)

{3} And quite likely impossible to do based only on perusing this site's archives.

{4} I say in a macro sense because there are some particulars to Justice Harlan's dissent which I do not concur with.

Points to Ponder:

The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way. In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you’re talking about, the only cases in recorded history, are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worse off, worst off, it’s exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free-enterprise system. [Milton Friedman]