Posted on 02/09/2004 7:28:22 AM PST by mrustow
Sounds just like the posted article.
For the record, Bradley lost because a really obnoxious handgun control measure was on the ballot, and gun owners turned out in droves to vote against the measure and those like Bradley who supported it.
And Bradley was an ex-cop!
Having spent six years and change teaching college as an adjunct, and having a white Ph.D. friend who had to go to Saudi Arabia to get his one and only full-time teqching job, I have to doubt that. While even in the humanities, black Ph.D.s have both predominantly white and predominantly black institutions chasing after them to hire them, white male Ph.D.s must desperately search the entire planet for full-time teaching jobs.
...and the people making the hiring decisions may think that a black person will be more effective with their students than a white person would be.
That's illegal. It's also untrue -- studies have shown that black instrutors are no more successful at teaching black students than are white educators. As a matter of fact, after blacks ran off white teachers and administrators from their public schools, and demanded new, black public colleges with black professors and administrators, black academic achievement collapsed.
But there's a story within the story. Byrd failed to note that McLemore is a professor at a racist institution. Jackson State University is a publicly funded, black, excuse me, "historically black" university, whose students are taught "A knowledge and recognition of the value of both one's own ethnic and cultural heritage and of the similarities and difference inherent in a multi-cultural society." Translated into English, Jackson State students are taught to value blackness. In English, that's called publicly subsidized, institutionalized, educational racism.
While Professor McLemore may be an egregious hypocrite, for his comments on the election, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a people taking pride in their own ethnic and cultural heritage. People who take pride in their heritage should be the norm. Do you really prefer an America where minorities do not take pride in who they are, but think of themselves as victims, and where Whites do not take pride in who they are, but think of themselves instead, as exploiters and oppressors, as they are pictured in the propaganda of the Left? (Race being used today as a metaphor for Class Warfare.)
It is the victim/guilt nonsense that is destroying all of our heritages, and creating hatred. If the Professor really had more pride in his own identity, or at least some self-respect, he might not be so quick to whine because other people voted for candidates whom they felt represented their heritage and culture.
We need to get back to the common sense understanding urged so clearly by Booker T. Washington, which looked to progress by all upon principles basic to the American experience--individual responsibility and personal development, with mutual respect between the diverse components of a common homeland. (The alternative is, what the Left has promoted for the past three generations, deliberately trying to destroy whatever goodwill there was between the races: Creating Hate In America Today.)
I consider whatever Jackson State--the Professor notwithstanding--can do to improve the sense of self-respect as opposed to the alternatives, among its student body, to be admirable. It should be encouraged, not denounced.
William Flax
To liberals, everyone south of the Mason Dixon owns a pickup, a Rebel flag and bass boat. And oh yeah\, they are by bigoted liberal elite terms, racist.
I'd love to see the NYT circulation on a color coded map. That would be funny. Bet it parallels the red/blue 2000 election map.
To liberals, everyone south of the Mason Dixon owns a pickup, a Rebel flag and bass boat. And oh yeah\, they are by bigoted liberal elite terms, racist.
I'd love to see the NYT circulation on a color coded map. That would be funny. Bet it parallels the red/blue 2000 election map.
If they want to promote their group's "pride," they have to do it in a private school, without taking any public funds.
I'd like to see that, too. My hunch is that you'd be right.
Well, unless Mississippi has changed very much for the worse, most Mississippians of either race, would applaud the idea of students learning to respect themselves and their heritage. That would be both a civic view and a religious view--that being what the Fifth Commandment clearly intends. (And please don't tell me that Mississippi is now in the grips of the ACLU or Southern Poverty Law Center crusade against traditional Faith based concepts.)
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
Hey, I'm short one flag & one bass boat - it's discrimination, I tell ya! I demand reparations!
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