For a recent arrival, the benefits of segregation are obvious.Off the record, quite a few people worry that this new wave of immigrants is not like the last and will not assimilate so easily, or that it will change the city in some undefined but undesirable way.
However one case of siblings who developed infection with identical strains raises the possibility of cross-infection in CF and should carefully consider the risks and benefits of segregation of patients who have isolated this organism.
And virtually all major league players until 1947 benefited from racial segregation.
In order to move beyond the zero-sum game that pits the property interests of middle-class and white residents against those of low-income and minority residents, courts must end the legal double standard that allows the residual harms and unequal benefits of historical segregation to continue accruing to this day.
Eric Foner, the pre-eminent historian of Reconstruction, recalled last week via e-mail how Strom Thurmond would argue in the early 1960s "that segregation benefited blacks and whites and had nothing to do with racism" — as if inequality were O.K. as long as segregationists pushing separate-but-equal "compromises" claimed their motives were pure.
Whether or not they are actually aware of their skin-privilege, over 20 generations of white Americans have inherited socioeconomic resources from their forbearers who benefitted unjustly from slavery, segregation, and other forms of racial oppression.
But she struggles to answer whether this customized segregation hurts or benefits her 2,200 students.
This, he said, would make it possible to judge if those impacts outweighed the benefits, especially with regard to segregation, and that if they did whether a re-design might be required.
After all, they benefited from the cracking of segregation, which must make them some of "these problems" the Senate majority leader alluded to in his devotional to the bygone era of the still-here Strom Thurmond.
Observers have speculated that Ray may have decided that killing King would somehow benefit Wallace's candidacy or prolong segregation.
