Posted on 09/08/2009 6:07:04 PM PDT by mylife
Ron Kirk returns to Booker T. Washington High for Obama speech
01:27 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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DALLAS - Barack Obama's cabinet members traveled to their hometowns to view the president's speech to students.
That brought former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk back to Dallas. Kirk is now the U.S. Trade Representative.
He watched the speech at Booker T. Washington High School.
One of the main reasons for this may be that his daughter is a senior at the school.
She and her father and about 400 juniors and seniors went to an auditorium and watched Obama's speech.
"I can relate to a lot of the stories that he was talking about, so it inspired me to work harder," said one student.
"I am disappointed that many people thought it was controversial because I really didn't see that at all," said another student. WFAA-TV At Booker T. Washington High School, two students decided not to watch the speech.
"You can use your education to chart whatever kind of future you want. And one of the real joys I had when I was mayor of Dallas was I tried to visit every school in Dallas. I realize pretty quickly that we had a lot of schools. But one of my mantras all the time, was that a vision without a plan is a hallucination," Kirk said.
DISD says students were given an option not to watch and out of 400 students, two students said they would pass.
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“He watched the speech at Booker T. Washington High School.”
Seriously...what exactly was Mr. Peanut’s contribution to enable the naming of 4,000 high schools after him? Was he the first black scientist or something? There has to be something more to it than I can figure out...no BC maybe?
Washington invented lots of stuff. Socialism wasn’t one of them
And how much did it cost us to send all these socialists to their home towns on AF gulfstreams to spread the lies of this commie administration????
Exactly. It would be great if the AA community actually emulated BTW, and not just named schools in his memory.
Did you mean George Washington Carver, or did Booker T do something with peanuts, too?
Agreed.
I am sure he was back visiting family on his own dime ;)
Hmmm... must be "new math" only 402 students in the DISD?
Hmmm... must be "new math" only 402 students in the DISD?
Booker T. Washington was the first leader of the Tuskegee Institute, and by partnering with wealthy donors, helped to build public schools for black kids. He urged blacks to work hard and become educated.
I do not think Booker T would have liked Obama at all. There are two major strains of American Black philosophy
Those who live their lives akin to the self-reliant attitude espoused and promoted by Booker T Washington. Clarence Thomas is a man in that line of self-mastery.
Yet the other strain is derived from the perennial weed of grudge bearing as developed, marketed and propagandized by WEB DuBois.
DuBois established the line of Black communists that after three generations begat Barack Obama. Obama is the direct spiritual inheritor of DuBois.
George Washington Carver, dude. He was the scientist. Booker T. Washington was the great educator (and the one who warned about Black con-artist race hustlers like Zero a century ahead of time).
I agree! I think he would be shocked about a lot of things, such as the negative attitude that so many black kids have about education.
A few Booker T. Washington quotes:
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Character is power.
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
I couldn’t stand it when he was Mayor of Dallas! Once I watched his “chauffer” come up on construction cones, get out, move a couple, and he speeds up the road no one else can drive on. Pompous you know what!!
George Washington Carver, dude. He was the scientist. Booker T. Washington was the great educator (and the one who warned about Black con-artist race hustlers like Zero a century ahead of time).
Thanks. I always confuse the giants...
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