Though I agree that the opinion reached by the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka calling for desegregation in public schools was a just decision, there were no governmental provisions in place to equalize the black schools in the north and south after the previous �separate but equal� decision of Plessey vs. Ferguson.

I do not necessarily believe that equalization of schools in and of itself would make the education equal, but I do strongly believe that equalization of choice would. What I mean is that the students of black public schools of yesterday and today�s minority dominated inner-city schools would benefit more from having the educational choice of schools to attend in their area.

Students who were psychologically prepared would challenge themselves in the white dominated institutions, while others would choose to remain in the minority dominated institutions either because they felt the institutions best prepared them for success or they were not prepared psychologically to be in white dominated classrooms.

It is important to note that desegregation was implemented so that blacks went to white schools and not vice versa. I do not recall whites entering predominantly black schools. Since that did not occur, the black students who integrated obtained �tangible� advantages, such as better books and educational facilities. The �intangible� items, such as being in a system in which not only the students were black, but the faculty, staff and administration were all black as well, was abandoned.

Blacks sacrificed their much needed role models, themselves, for �tangible� items: newer books, nicer desks, a blacktop, etc. It is not only important that students have equal access to educational institutions and resources, butthey must also feel psychologically equal to people of races different from their own.

Until the psychological inferiority has changed in the minds of all blacks, there still remains a need for institutions that have predominantly black students, teachers, staff and administration as well as equal resources where students that have not done so can break from those psychological barriers that have resulted from the institution of slavery in the past, and institutional racism of the present.