Greater New Haven Branch NAACP President James Rawlings is absolutely correct and right on target when he describes the current social issues in Connecticut and the rest of the country as "urban apartheid." What happened to Brown v. Board of Education, 1954-1955? What happened to Sheff v. O”Neill, a Connecticut case? Where is affirmative action today? We still have segregated housing, separate but unequal education, and lack of job opportunity for many of our citizens. Author and civil rights attorney Michelle Alexander refers to the disparate incarceration rates of black men as “The New Jim Crow” (title of her 2010 book). Why haven’t we been able to overcome these inequities in our society and reach equality as has been promised to us for so long? Do we have the will to do it? Margo Johnson-Taylor
New Haven