05-908, at 38a-39a, 45a. of City School Dist. I join Part IIIC of the Courts opinion because I agree that in the context of these plans, the small number of assignments affected suggests that the schools could have achieved their stated ends through different means. 1, 458 U. S. 457, 461466 (1982). 2d, at 370. White Privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks. See White Privilege Conference, Questions and Answers, http://www.uccs.edu/~wpc/ Part II dismissed the respondent's attempts to argue that Parents Involved lacks standing. This is incorrect. Here, race becomes a factor only in a fraction of students non-merit-based assignmentsnot in large numbers of students merit-based applications. Supra, at 1920. of Springfield v. Board of Ed., 362 Mass. See also ante, at 2223 (Thomas, J., concurring). Id., at 8391. Without explicitly resting on either of these strands of doctrine, the dissent repeatedly invokes the school districts supposed interests in remedying past segregation. See, e.g., Brief for Appellees on Reargument in Briggs v. Elliott, O.T. 1953, No. PARENTS INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS v. SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. At the same time, the plan provided that a previous black school would remain about 50% black, while a previous white school would remain about two-thirds white. A non-profit group, Parents Involved in Community Schools (Parents), sued the District, arguing that the racial tiebreaker violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Washington state law. Brief for Respondent at 3334. The complaint alleged that the Seattle School Board had created or perpetuated unlawful racial segregation through, e.g., certain school-transfer criteria, a construction program that needlessly built new schools in white areas, district line-drawing criteria, the maintenance of inferior facilities at black schools, the use of explicit racial criteria in the assignment of teachers and other staff, and a general pattern of delay in respect to the implementation of promised desegregation efforts. 137 F.Supp. Many parents, white and black alike, want their children to attend schools with children of different races. The District first gave priority to students who had a sibling at the school. of Ed etal., on certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Yet neither of those briefs contains specific details like the magnitude of the claimed positive effects or the precise demographic mix at which those positive effects begin to be realized.
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