Posted on 02/26/2009 5:58:19 PM PST by Bob017
Most Americans, I believe, thought all the race-baiting rhetoric might have finally come to an end. Apparently they were wrong.
Eric Holder says we need to keep on talking about race – having frank conversations.
OK, I'll take the bait. Let's talk frankly about race.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
On a similar note, it seems only white, straight males can be charged with a hate crime.
I’m with you on this kid. I don’t think we should have to pay for these bungleheads either. However, the bailout is not going to only those who have been imprudent.
For example, there is more than one bailout. One of the bailouts is offering handouts for the picking to any state whose governor’s office completes a form that can be done online. Thus, it is a way for any state to obtain money for a variety of “needs;” or even “wants” I suppose.
So, not everyone getting bailout money was an individual. Incidentally, I do believe that some people were legitimately hustled. These are the very unintelligent among us. Therefore, be happy that you have the brains to read the “fine print” and if you don’t get it, you probably have the wherewithal to hire an attorney who does get it.
What are you saying exactly?
I think black culture. Less demanding. Now privileged. You keep asking questions. Do you have an opinion?
I disagree with your comment that “hip hop English is more mainstream than traditional English.” When is the last time you visited your bank, doctor’s office, broker, insurance agent, accountant, realtor, and so on and they were talking in “hip hop?” While it has invaded much of “pop” culture in the music and our young people who do not even have fully developed brains, it is NOT mainstream. Our culture follows black culture no more than it follows Hollywood. While they may look front and center in many ways due to the media’s lust for anything that sells, provokes, or incites, there are millions of regular folks who don’t speak Ebonics - not even close. And, for whatever it’s worth, as a university student, I happen to be in classes with many Black students... yes, many do speak, this way, but many do not, so it’s not even completely represented in their group. A lot of them know that in the business world, this isn’t going to fly.
I don’t know.
I don't watch TV trash anymore.
These "not fully developed brains" are going to be developed by teachers who believe in cultural and moral equivalence, which is dubious at best.
As a former "university student" who grew up in a small town in New York, which by the way was fully integrated way before the problems of the late sixities and early seventies, I can tell you that more minorities were helped by integration than by "diversity", which is the Balkaniztion of this country. I nvever, ever, though of my black classmates as any differetn from me. Ever. And I don't think they did either considering our friendships.
Our small high school was also rate the best in the country in the 50's.
You are right on target about their minds, sir. Meanwhile, I also think diversity is the biggest bunch of halooey and is being forced down the throats of all university students.
In every class I take, other than the science/math classes, we have to do project after project and show how we will meet diversity needs, etc. It’s diversity this and diversity that.
I heard a great quote awhile back about the motto on our penny - E Pluribus Unum. The quote was that we need less pluribus, and more unum.
Oh, Captn, FWIW, I have been inoculated against the brainwashing by years of immunity developed from living in the REAL world.
At my rather advacnced age I am back at college. If I were a matriculated student, I would have to take a course on “diversity”. Fortuantely, I am not matriculated.
I think that’t called “common sense”.
What are you studying? Are you changing careers? That’s what I’m doing - also never finished college back when.
Uh, I hate to say it but I don’t think one can get common sense just from living life. I know people who have spent years on this planet and still have little to none; of course, some are brilliant academic minds.
A lot do but a lot don’t. Carrie Underwood for example.
Yes. Changing. Law.
They’re own fault
As always Farah is right on!
He gets a little bit out there sometimes. Sometimes he nails it.
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