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Am I the only one who thought that the test where they showed the little girl a lineup of different colored children and asked her to point out the good one and the bad one seemed a little messed up? Is it even possible to give an answer that wouldn't be disturbing in one way or another? What if she chose a white person instead of someone of color?
Sorry, but that test just has WTF written all over it.

As a layman observer, I would argue the root of problems with segregated neighbourhoods, schools and racism in general is inequality. I suspect racism is primarily driven not by some kind of eugenic notion of superiority as in the past, but simply the perception that black people are on more likely to be involved in criminal behaviour because they are on average poorer.

Until you take redistributive actions to give disadvantaged people (and those policies can simply target people in poverty, not by race) more opportunities, the imbalance in wealth / income will persist, and so will the bias towards living in separate suburbs, sending children to separate schools not to mention employment biases. As it is, there is a regressive, vicious cycle of poorer education, weaker job prospects leading people into the informal / illegal economy.

What if the girl was black? I would gather that in testing there were blacks and others doing this test. What did they pick?

What if the low income communities had what the high income communities had -- GOOD schools with all the amenities to achieve. Lets further say that these students now become 85% graduation and 60% college bound.

Would segregation still be needed?

You would think black children would be part of the study. I'd want to know what kind of choices were they given, was choosing nobody as the good person or bad person an option?
Also, hysterical parents aside I don't think anybody was arguing for school segregation, so I don't understand why you ask "Would segregation still be needed?" in your second post. Blacks were kept out of nicer white neighborhoods due to racist housing policies, that's how we got to today's segregation.

Stop that socialist rethoric right now!
Think about your reputation, man. You start to sound like a damn commie!