While everyone agrees that black children should not have been condemned to substandard schools for one hundred years, who gave the government the right to punish little Joshua, a five year old white kid, for this injustice? Why must little Joshua have to forego the convenience of attending the school down the street and suffer riding a bus for three or four hours a day to get to a school in an unfamiliar part of town away from his friends, parents, and neighbors? Who gave the government the power to punish little Joshua today for the injustices perpetrated against black people forty years ago that Prof. Dellinger so eloquently enumerated?

School finance is the heart of the problem, not the racial composition of the classroom, isn't it?