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Lots of the States are in on this! Some more than others! It’s like the United Nations park that was floated in Washington State where they were going to make the whole Cascade chain of mountains a park. That didn’t work very well when the citizens got wind of it, There were to many people against it. So they started doing land swaps where a conservation group buys up a chunk of land then turns it over to the government for money! they are doing that in Washington and it started in the 1990’s and continues today!

It is not possible to deal with the problem of the education of blacks.

Whites can not propose that there is something innate in the lower intelligence of the median black student, because this would be racist (or at least unkind). So no help can come from whitey. I am a big fan of skilled vocational schools for many students, white or black.

Blacks can not propose that there is something innate in the lower intelligence of the median black person as this would be a self indictment. So they create the mask of a culture to hide behind that allows them to not compete or excel while maintaining the illusion of equality.

I mentioned to my spouse the other day that it seemed that the “in our face - who cares what you think” attitude they have while they strip us of our rights and our freedoms is as if they are trying to start civil unrest to impose marshal law as soon as possible. Some of us will not be so compliant.

I taught my kids phonics before they went to school. It is an important language tool to know.

This is not right. This government no longer represents the citizens of this great nation. It is time to clean this mess up and send all those who wish to destroy, and subvert the rights of the people packing. It is time for citizen to return this country to the founding principles by whatever means necessary.

Don’t forget the American Revolution....the first one, that is....

One-third of the colonists wanted to fight the British in order to form an independent nation....

One-third of the colonists were loyal to the British Crown;

One-third didn’t care one way or the other....they just wanted to see which side came out on top, and then they were going to throw their support to the winning side.
That’s how it all went down from 1775 - 1783.

This thread recalls the following piece from earlier today. Time to quit pretending. Time to follow Holders advice and have a more honest dialog on race.

Stop shooting messengers and face the truth

Sometimes knowledge is uncomfortable. But it is the mark of a civilised society that we do not sweep it under the carpet.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6952298.ece

I spent $20,000 trying to get my golden retriever to read.....he still can’t read... I sent a letter to my congressman asking for another $3.2 billion for “No Golden Retriever Left Behind”.....if we just spend enough money and show enough love....those retrievers will learn to read as well as any white child.....

>>You will certainly not get any disagreement from me that the inner-city black culture needs to change. You can say the same thing about the inner-city white culture. The progressives are the one who make it about color. The welfare culture eats everyone who buys into it no matter what color God made them. Race nor poverty should ever trump personal responsibility in America.<<

There is a “color” component to the inner city.

Whites, for the most part, say to their kids, “your job is to get out of here.” Blacks say “this is your life forever, get used to it.” Latinos say “it doesn’t get any better than this, does it?”

It has to do with who is leading them and how they got there. And who they follow and why.

But it doesn’t tie to the DNA that creates the skin color, no. That is just racist. I am not calling you that, I am pointing it out for those who think there is some sort of inherent gene associated with color — color is associated with climate, which is associated with a complex physical and cultural milieu from the environment, which created certain physical and social survival traits that have been passed, fairly recently, to people in an urban setting.

But saying “white men can’t jump” (as some sort of “therefore Blacks can’t think” argument) is discarding data that say otherwise.

This is cultural choice, not survival imperative.

I would imagine that most mother’s who find themselves in positions where they feel their only option is adoption are less than stellar themselves

Quite the Christian comment to make about a group of people.

BTW, Mr. Low End of the Curve, "most mother's" is not possessive, it's plural.

FRIGGIN TRAITORS!

That they are...but half the country does not seem to care. We will also be fighting our own neighbors I fear.

You will certainly not get any disagreement from me that the inner-city black culture needs to change. You can say the same thing about the inner-city white culture. The progressives are the one who make it about color. The welfare culture eats everyone who buys into it no matter what color God made them. Race nor poverty should ever trump personal responsibility in America.

I care about my kids and always tell them they can succeed with hard work no matter what anyone else says about them. If they buy into the hyphenation (either self-imposed or labeled by others) they are allowing others to define them based on their agenda and opinions. That is not acceptable in my house, Jesse Jackson be damned.

You have it sooo wrong. Get with the program. Genetics only affects plants and animals, e.g., tomatoes, race horses, English bulldogs.

They just don’t know what to do when they reach FO, as in One, Two, Three, FO

>>Neither are math scores. Trying to fix this by addressing cultural issues is as mindless as trying to make white kids win sprints.<<

I am not going to touch that.

It’s not just black culture and Hispanic culture. Ever watch the 100 meter sprint in the Olympics. Notice: every male runner in the quarter finals and beyond is black. They might be Jamacian, American, British, or whatever. This isn’t a “cultural” issue.

Neither are math scores. Trying to fix this by addressing cultural issues is as mindless as trying to make white kids win sprints.