Republicans Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Michael S. Steele celebrate after giving their acceptance speeches last night in Baltimore. (Sun photo by Gene Sweeney Jr.)
Posted on 06/29/2005 9:02:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
WHEN GOV. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. called multiculturalism "bunk" and "crap" about a year ago, you'd have thought, judging from the reaction of some folks, that he'd just taken out a lifetime membership in the Ku Klux Klan.
....In May 2004, state Comptroller William Donald Schaefer complained about a worker at an area fast-food restaurant who had what might be generously called insufficient English skills. Schaefer wondered why new immigrants didn't simply learn English.
The next day Ehrlich expressed his support for Schaefer on a local radio station.
"Once you get into this multicultural crap, this bunk that some folks are teaching in our college campuses and in other places, you run into a problem," the governor said.
......You can't mention the Constitution these days without some student trained in multiculturalism claiming the document is flawed because the white males who wrote it condoned slavery. The proper way to evaluate those white males is not by today's standards, but by those present in 1787-1789.
Compared with white males of other countries, our white males in America stack up pretty well. They surely come out way ahead of nonwhite males of the same era. I defy anyone to name 18th-century males of any color who produced a Constitution as good, enduring and amenable to amending as what America's white males produced.
This thinking runs counter to multiculturalism, whose adherents figure it's best to bash America's white males - living or dead - early and often. That seems to be the goal of ethnomathematics, according to a recent Wall Street Journal column written by educator Diane Ravitch.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Don't be addin dose numbers like dat.
I can't stand calling for help at some of these companies like Direcway and get somebody that speaks horrible and unintelligible English. I figure I got connected to India. And these people are the "Help" or "Support" people. Sheesh!
Gee, seems funny, Asians don't have any problem mastering White mathematics or science.
My brother was counting his change in a candy store in Queens one day when some "Brother" took it on himself to inform him, "You know mathematics. You all know mathematics. You use mathematics to oppress us." No fool, my brother replied, "Yo man, I failed algebra."
They couldn't do more to tear down our society if they tried.
Seems like that's exactly their intent . . .
it bears little or no resemblance to reality, and merely adds speed to the dumbing down of America.
With friends like these.....
***...Adherents of ethnomathematics believe that the math Ehrlich learned at Gilman and the rest of us learned in our high schools "is the property of Western Civilization and is inexorably linked with the values of the oppressors and conquerors," Ravitch wrote.
In other words: white males....***
Gov. Ehrlich and Lt. Gov. Steele are straight shooters.
There needs to be a ton of reform.
No friend would let a person live with hate instead of hope.
Name: theDentist
DOB: 06/59
Ethnicity: Oppressor and Conqueror
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Some
Sex: Oppressive and Conquering
"We live in a rich and diversified city and state," the governor said. "We celebrate our ethnicity through festivals, through dinners, through awards programs. That's what the melting pot truly is. That's the strength of the country.
"But there are certain common denominators running through those groups, and it's called 'Americans.' It is called a singular American culture with a language, with a history, with a Bill of Rights, with democracy and capitalism and these are fundamental elements of the American culture. And so those who try to separate out from that culture I find dangerous and I reject the notion."
He summed it up pretty well I'd say.
If Jaleel buy 5 grams of cocaine for $500, his 'ho snorts 1/2 gram, and uses the rest to make 250 rocks of crack that he sells for $15 each, how much more could he have made if his 'ho didn't have such a big nose? What is the best way to launder this money?
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