[the anti-mahdi]

Whatever. I was born in Rockford IL in 1954.

Perhaps I should write a book about black students robbing white students of their lunch money, blacks bullying whites in schools, intimidating both students and faculty.

Yes, I got in more than a few fistfights with blacks that mistook me for an easy mark, thought I was some suburbian lily white pussy afraid of black people. After a few neccessary ass-kickings administered by me I was left alone. Others were not.

Or, about black activists succeeding in dumbing down curriculum and grading standards, taking over whole school districts and putting other black racists in charge until only about 50% of high school seniors graduate, and those that do could not get a passing grade on an ASVAB test, much less compete in college. (ASVAB tests are administered to all potential recruits by all branches of the US military)

Oh, there is endemic racism in America. It is today and has been in my lifetime nurtured, fertilized and harvested by the Left and by the “victimized” racial “minorities”.

In the end, universally, there will be no rankings based on merit, accomplishment, or intelligence, no grades, nothing. All will be equally ignorant and ill-educated. Some Ivy League Schools, Yale comes to mind, long ago, have abolished anything but pass/fail. I am pretty confident no one fails.

If I misread your response, I apologize for my misunderstanding. After a lifetime of tolerance toward the intolerant among us, I guess I am getting too old and too grumpy to entertain, much less allow, that someone has suggested otherwise regarding me, my life and my experience.

My son-in-law is black and he is dear to me as are his children, which are, of course, my grandchildren.

I do know however that he is constantly being labeled as an “Oreo”, criticised for “acting white” by the crybaby, lacklustre black losers who failed to make it out of high school, much less attain a Masters degree.

All of these whiners sicken me because they all have no excuse, none. You make it or not. Life is hard, man up or shut up. To blame others or society in general, or whites in particular, for one’s epic failure is cowardly, dishonest, and destructive of both society and the individual.

I look to Dr. Ben Carson to heal this cancer of black racism against whites. His mother was illiterate. Ben was not allowed by his mother to be a crybaby.

[Dr. Sivana]

Whatever. I was born in Rockford IL in 1954.

Okay, I think I know where you are at. Yes, I think we had a miscommunication. Neither of us are racists. Both of us are sick of race being used as a trump card, or worse, as a cover for new cultural norms that will make life worse for all of us.

My wife and I moved to Rockford in 1998, and only moved from the region last year due to lack of employment in the area. We lived in the city on Broadway (near Five Points). You know what I am talking about. We moved to Ogle County in 2006 when the little old ladies next door moved to the nursing home and were replaced with three generations of women who didn't appear to believe in marriage (white) and who I suspected would be a bad influence on my growing children (adopted and of various races). A used prophylactic found on my front lawn clinched it for me. We had to go.

I am also aware of the east/west divide in Rockford; and I wasn't in an urban center during the late '60s early '70s when things came to a head, and the period immediately after when affirmative action meant lost jobs for the children whose parents worked in the formerly solid manufacturing sector.

We still go to Rockford every week, as our church is St. Mary Oratory (formerly St. Mary's Church) next door to the old jail and the Wattles Center, and across the street from the new jail. They have the traditional Latin Mass there, and we know many, many fine people there.

Unfortunately, the sub-culture of the underclass (black and white) in Rockford has spread as the working class jobs went away, and those who could move mostly did (Loves Park, Belvidere, Pecatonica, etc.) The law suit just enriched the lawyers and made everybody mad at everybody. So what you describe is also happening (especially) at East High.

While I don't see Dr. Carson as a likely Presidential contender, he'd be great as a cabinet member in a Cruz administration. At this point, I am afraid that Obama has poisoned the well for future black candidates, as it is unhealthy to be led by someone who cannot be honestly criticized without being accused of sinister ulterior motives.