The Warnings of History
It is not that we do not learn from history that causes us to repeat it; it is that we mistake technological progress for political progress, and we mistake the difference in our methods for a difference in our motives.
Derrick Bell, Barack Obama, and Liberalism
We are taught in our first American History or Civics classes that Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas is a landmark case in protecting equality for all races. “Not so,” says Derrick Bell. “Instead, let’s go back to Plessy v. Ferguson.”