re: How jacked up was the Brown v Board decision on desegregation?

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Were they harmed for not being around white kids or bc black public schools were overwhelmingly underfunded compared to white public schools.

Use your head next time

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But, the OP's (and my) point was that was NOT the fundamental basis of the decision. If it was, the Court would have never gotten into those weeds and merely said that unequal funding was contrary to Plessy and the 14th Amendment and declared any such formula unconstitutional.

That is not what the Court did. In fact, the Court noted that even if everything was truly equal, if there were laws that required segregation, they were "inherently unequal."

The fact that this was NOT the basis for its ruling is reflected in later cases, where the Court ordered forced integration (merely eliminating de jure segregation was not enough).