Posted on 05/27/2011 7:02:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
McWhorter is on your side in this—he’s pointing out the absurdity and double meaning.
I think it makes more sense to be proud of accomplishments and achievements. I suppose that if I'd done nothing worthwhile in my life, taking pride in my skin color might be a consolation, but it would not make me any less useless.
(This is Minnesota. Theirs was the first state in the US to pass a civil rights law ~ to protect the Norwegians from the Swedes.)
It was the other way around. The Swedes only outnumbered the Norwegians three or four to one so they had to have protection.
Who could tell?
This whole “diversity” thing has gotten way out of control. Multiculturalism has no place in schools or in America for that matter. America itself has a rich culture that draws from elements brought here by people of all races. In this regard, the culture of America is unique and the cultural achievements of any American should be a signpost of unity.
More political correctness in the public schools.
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“I think it makes more sense to be proud of accomplishments and achievements”
I agree...but I do take some “pride” in the accomplishments of those that are the same race as myself...two come to mind; the light bulb since I like to see at night, and peanut butter (I love my peanut butter). This might confuse some people since one was invented by a person with light skin and one was invented by a person with dark skin. But both of them were part of the human race and as such are part of the same family (human family) that I belong to.
I pray that the day will come soon that we stop accepting the lie that there are different “races” and that we realize the truth that we are all related...God’s Word makes this clear, and science is now supporting this through the study of genetics...
Bingo. I read that a couple of years ago. It explains much in this area.
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I really like that statement Tax-chick, and I'm storing it into the old "memory bank" for later use.
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I think you’ve got the right idea, because you’ve put “pride” in quotes. Our faith tells us to be very careful about pride - it is something dangerous, because it leads us away from being grateful to our Father for everything.
Even if I’ve done something really outstanding, I should give God the glory ... and certainly if an ancestor, or a person from the same country, or someone who looks similar, has an achievement, that doesn’t put me in a position to be proud. Grateful, as we all should be for the electricity (and antibiotics ;-), or respectful, or appreciative, of the accomplishments or simply the endurance of our fellow humans, but not to set myself above others for any reason.
Education is far too important to leave in the hands of government educators.
Homeschool - as if your children’s lives depended on it.
All in the name of “diversity”...what a crock!
The accent don’t chya know.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2725727/posts #13 ~ is actually a MINNESOTA POST if you want to know. It’s about when Spain divided up America between itself, France and England. The West Bank of the Mississippi stayed with Spain ~ and so did an awful lot of other stuff to the North!
that explanation doesn’t make any sense... you must have been dumbstruck — so would I!
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