Posted on 07/19/2014 11:46:02 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Just watch it:
"Debate" American Common Core Style: Our Top Orators in Action "The Nuts Are Running The Asylum"
I prefer this:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
I just watched it again. I didn’t believe it was real the first time.
But I guess it is.
Here's the entire "debate", for anyone with a strong stomach and four hours to kill:
2014 DECA Final Round
When I was in the ninth grade (almost 50 years ago) I won 2nd place in a statewide oratorical contest. My speech was a well researched and entertaining exposition on the use of classical music themes in popular culture (Lone Ranger etc). The first prize went to a Black Girl who did a speech about skiing that contained those vocalizations and gasps and histrionics.
I was taken aside privately by the judges afterward at which time they told me that I was the REAL winner, but they HAD to give the prize to the other little girl because Negroes had been oppressed for so many years, and they were SURE that I would understand.
That was in 1965.
I love this video and I hope it makes more rounds. The absurdity on display is downright hilarious and a fine example of what happens with affirmative action. It would make an excellent skit to have these types running the country or as a CEO, forced to use their “skills” in the real world, far away from their liberal enablers and head patters.
I really thought it WAS a comedy skit.
Then i read the remarks and i was “stuned” to say the least.
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