Posted on 01/09/2005 9:48:36 AM PST by Trueblackman
There are many white democrats who believe this stuff too. I work with at least one.....
Unfair or not, it happens. Because AA has been touted for many years the perception is becoming in general what the liberals seem to truly believe, that people who aren't like them are mentally inferior, except "Asians" who are conniving geniuses who must be pushed back a page or two.
You missed my point.
An honestly earned degree would be all that is require.
With AA you are throwing that degree (an thus the person holding it) into doubt.
I also think it's a damn shame.
wow.
never heard of either experiment in communism, but they appear to be atrocious in their ultimate effects.
Okay I understand. I don't get how a person knows a black person wasn't helped in that way but I see your point. It's a bad policy.
heh!
Chortle! I've been known to typ under the influence, from time to time ... grateful for that backspace key :-).
"Typso" is also a Freepism, growing in popularity, which means a typing error that creates real humor, not just an ordinary "typo." "Typso" is a singular-and-plural noun (like "moose"): One typso, two typso, all your typso are belong to us.
I have a ping list for the very best typso I find.
How come you can type "yale" and "homophobe", but not "not" (notr) or "goes" (gos). You're a fraud.
If you're a foreigner just learning English, please accept our apologies. It happens.
Even cats hit the correct key occasionally!
They are, indeed, atrocious in their ultimate effects, and WL is still around. Every now and then NEA discovers that the students in one district or another are learning to read 2 or 3 years ahead of other districts and WL gets imposed again. My wife is an elementary ed teacher who has experienced that. The quicker teachers descended n the used book stores (before the WEB) and scoured old book catalogues for phonics primers because the school board confiscated all the official ones they had been using in one day. The next year and, at great expense of course, they went back to actually teaching phonics.
No. Not "meese?"
that's absurd.
I believe the NEA would indeed do this, but it is patently absurd.
ahhhhhhhh... I had wondered about that term... you had me in the bewildermentness.
Thank you for your efforts, Kevin.
Sorry about that ... glad you're found :-).
One meese, two meese? "I don't know who made that meese in the bathroom, Mom!"
I recall that there were some methods of recounting in Florida that would have led to a Gore victory and some that would have to a Bush victory.
But the real reason there was disenfranchisement was the tens of thousands of voters, mostly black, who were wrongly put on the felon list. Here's how it happened. The company that created the felon list decided to identify names by running a search on their computer, comparing the voting list to the felon list. All that was needed to show a match was the same birthday, an 80% match on the name, and the same race and gender. In a massive state like Florida, that means tens of thousands of people. In terms of race, the number of purges will follow the exact same percentages as the prison population -- that is, mostly black.
So the big issue to me is not the stopping of the recount or even the butterfly ballot. It's the fact that tens of thousands of people, majority black, couldn't get to the polls at all.
Again, please don't think I wish Gore won. I'm just saying that, if you look at the facts honestly, he probably would have won. Now I'm no Pollyanna: I know that politics is a tough business and both sides play hard to get an upper hand. Making it harder for blacks to vote is a way that Republicans do that; trying to get everyone and their mother to be able to register, with no real standards at all, is how the Democrats do it. Both sides are guilty. Given that I'm black and a Republican, I guess my loyalties are split, but in the end, I'm for a fair vote, and if I lose, I lose.
"It would seem that Democrats only care about so-called voter disenfranchisement, when it affects their candidate."
Of course. That's politics. And like I said, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Calling them hypocrites is accurate, but not a counter-argument.
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