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Posted on 06/16/2005 6:54:24 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy
Yeah, I heard that part about why they're still together.
I love WW.
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When I graduated from a very large "inner city" public high school in the pre-riot, pre Great Society 60s, it was probably 80% graduation rate for blacks, 85% for white "Christians" and 100% for Jews. We only had a handfull of "others" mostly sons and daughters of Asians who not only graduated, but ended up with full scholarship to Ivy League schools, as did some blacks, whites, and more than a few Jews.
BTW. That school was nearly a perfect melting pot for it's time. 20% black. 15% Jew. The rest white with probably a slim majority of those being ethnic Catholic. The economic spectrum ran from dirt poor, to the kids of upper middle class professionals. Racial/Religious/Ethnic tensions were something that did not enter the equation in any meaningful or memorable way.
I always thanked my luck stars that I was blessed with the opportunity to be in that environment and to learn with those "others" at a young age and before the time when the race hustlers figured out how to get wealthy by getting kids at each other's throats.
Well at least we know where so many of our tax dollars have gone; drive around West Virginia and look for all the things named after Robert Byrd.
Byrd was a Ku Klux Klan Kleagle, and there's some telling quotes that I can't post here because they would pulled for extreme racism and I'd be banned, that's how bad Byrd has been. Follow the link and read the "Participation in the Ku Klux Klan" section. And that doesn't include his comments on TV within the last few years about "white n*****s". But he's the lead Democratic Senator, and that's also the party that still receives the majority of the black vote.
Everybody just politely overlooks everything about Byrd. The only former KKKer that tried to get into the GOP was disowned by everyone, and still the MSM tried to play David Duke's candidacy up to smear Republicans.
I once had a black female employee who was angry that our then governor George W Bush had vetoed hate crimes legislation. I explained to her that he had vetoed it because the state already had hate crimes legislation and he was angry that the legislature was wasting time on an issue like that.
She insisted Texas had no hate crimes legislation.
I found the legislation, copied it, and gave it to her. She refused to read it and continued to insist it didn't exist, even with the document literally in her hand.
I'll have to disagree with WW on this one. His reasoning is similar to that articulated by Bill Cosby.
http://www.neoperspectives.com/billcosby.htm
"Bill is saying let's fight the right fight, let's level the playing field," Jackson said. "Drunk people can't do that. Illiterate people can't do that." (214)
If we didn't know either of them, we might think that Bill Cosby is wrong and that Jesse Jackson is right. The playing field is not level. Even with Welfare Reform, too many African Americans are still relying, on one form or another, on government assistance. The scars of welfare run deep and 8 years is not enough time to wash them away.
In reality both are wrong. Jesse Jackson, in trying to 'clarify' what Cosby said, is really just trying to add his own spin on it. "Leveling the playing field", is not referring to getting rid of government programs and continuing Welfare Reform; it is implying more government assistance, or something like affirmative action, is needed to level the playing field. Conservative news outlets, which have been hailing the comments and many of the African Americans who applauded or heard and agreed with what Cosby said are wrong too. True, it can't hurt for African Americans to look in the mirror and take personal responsibility for some of their problems, but this is just generally helpful in any community. My main point is that African Americans should not "have to turn the mirror around", because the problems they are facing do not come from within. Their problems do come, in part, from the 'white man', although it (unfortunately) isn't considered racism. Their problems do come from the Federal government. More accurately, their problems stem directly from the policies and programs of Liberal Democrats. The hard truth is that for the last 60 years Liberal Democrats have taken the place of the Southern farmers and Northern industrialists in keeping the African American subjugated and impoverished, but instead of gaining cheap labor, they gain cheap votes. Even worse, most Liberal Democrats and African American leaders are completely oblivious to this analogy and desperately fight to keep the present system in place.
"That school was nearly a perfect melting pot for it's time"
The idea of the so-called melting has been advocated and pushed forward by the enemies of America intent on destroying our country. Melting pot is just another euphemism for diversity, which, as we all know, is bad for America as it espouses "oneness" and "sameness."
Walter Williams is right on target.
Melting Pot is the polar opposite of Diversity.
Melting pot is homogenized diversity.
LOL (scratching head) What the hell is that?
I don't know. It just popped into my thick head and I thought it sounded important, so...
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