NP Ebonics (was It ain't only Rock & Roll, it's Jazz too)

[Abdiel OAbdiel]

Understanding  the the contributions of
Chinese-Americans to civil rights is critical to the
story. Having no democratic legal system in their
homeland, and because many other factors (Cultural and
Historical and so on) Chinese-Americans  tend to "take
care of their own problems,"  but Chinese-American
contribution to the US legal system is an amazing
sucess story. 




Lau v. Nichols  (excerpts) 414 U.S. 563 (1974) 

When children arrive in school with little or no
 English-speaking ability, "sink or swim" instruction
is a violation of their civil rights, according to the
U.S. Supreme Court in this 1974 decision. Lau remains
the major precedent regarding the educational rights
of language minorities, although it is grounded in
statute (Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964),
rather than in the U.S. Constitution. At issue was
whether school administrators may meet their
obligation to provide equal educational opportunities
merely by treating all students the same, or whether
they must offer special help for students unable to
understand English. Lower federal courts had absolved
the San Francisco school district of any
responsibility for minority children's "language
deficiency." But a unanimous Supreme Court disagreed.
Its ruling opened a new era in federal civil rights
enforcement under the so-called "Lau Remedies." The
decision was delivered by Justice William O. Douglas
on January 21, 1974. 




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