"The public schools are as racially isolated and segregated as they were with Brown" -- Those are the words spoken by attorney Charles Scott Jr. whose father, Charles Scott, was one of the attorney's who filed the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case in Topeka, Kansas.

The landmark ruling, which determined that "separate but equal" racial segregation is unconstitutional, celebrates it's 50th anniversary today. Scott's matter-of-fact remarks fly in the face of that ruling, and create the impression that no progress has been made. Scott should be ashamed of himself.

The segregation he refers to is not segregation mandated by the government, as was the case before the Brown ruling. Scott refers to the natural human behavior of blacks and whites to voluntarily segregate themselves into different neighborhoods and thus different schools. If he wants to argue that people should change their behavior and deliberately try to integrate themselves, so be it. But he shouldn't piss all over the Brown ruling by saying it didn't make any difference.