New York, Oct. 22—Those Americans unaware of recent developments in New York City may not have heard that the new practice for public school teachers is to separate them by race and then assign them in proportion to their numbers, where possible, to classes in which a different race predominates.
At one level the exercise is ludicrous, at another, something worse. Senator Patrick Moynihan, inveighing against it, invoked the terminology of Nuremberg, for which columnist Anthony Lewis of the New York Times accused him of linguistic overkill. Mr. Lewis reminded Mr. Moynihan of the disabilities imposed on the American Negro over the ages, a datum Professor Moynihan is probably in no need of instruction upon; and sought to clinch his point by saying: Who would resent it if the South African state were to make a conscious effort to increase the number of black students and teachers?
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