Obama Credits Mexican Woman with Ending Segregation?

 President Obama snubs Blacks again! This time during Black History Month.  Barack Obama continues to ignore his Black constituents and adds insult to injury by giving credit for desegregation and Brown vs. Board of Eduction to a Mexican family! Sylvia Mendez was awarded the Medal of Freedom by president Obama personally in a ceremony February, 15, 2011 on behalf of her parents Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez, who sued Westminster School District for turning their children away from an all-white school.  In 1947, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in deciding the case, ordered an end to segregation in California schools.  Mendez v. Westminister was later cited in the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case by Thurgood Marshall, lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who would later join the Supreme Court (F. Leal, ocregister.com).


The award is a nice gesture, and the Mendez Family, as well as the Mexican community should be proud. The question is: Is the media coverage of this event is spun to imply that segregation ended because of Mexicans? Does it trivialize the accomplishments of the African Americans in Brown vs. Board of Education?  Should Obama extend that same Metal of Freedom to the then, Black children that were beaten and jarred at when they first stepped off the school bus at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas? 


FOX NEWS COVERAGE OF THE CEREMONY


Other 2011 Metal of Freedom recipients are poet Maya Angelou, baseball player Bill Russell, billionaire Warren Buffet, former President George H.W. Bush senior, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma to name a few.