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Glad I Was Educated Before It Was ‘Fashionable For White People To Like Black People’
dailycaller.com ^ | 10/13/2016 | Caroline May

Posted on 10/13/2016 9:33:15 AM PDT by rktman

African-American students are getting a raw deal because — in the name of diversity — the system is superficially propping up those students who are doing poorly, according to economist and conservative columnist Walter E. Williams.

“I am glad that I got all of my education — I received all of my education before it become fashionable for white people to like black people,” Williams said in an interview Wednesday on Tallahassee’s Morning Show with Preston Scott. He was recalling a comment about his education that he offered in the documentary “Suffer No Fools.”

Williams, who is 80 years old, explained, “when I got an ‘A’ it was an honest to God ‘A’ and when I got a ‘C’ it was an honest to God ‘C.’ They didn’t give a damn about my self-esteem.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
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To: tbw2

One big hole in that theory is that Appalachia probably had fewer blacks than the northeast (even back then); slavery had no role for mountaineers. In fact, West Virginia was created during the Civil War by people in the mountainous west of the state with no interest in preserving slavery at all; they would support the Union, but feared being left at the mercy of the Richmond government when it was all over. The North acted accordingly, separating them from the slavery-supporting east of the state.

I’m Irish but not Scots-Irish (who are historically Protestant and enemies of my people), so I have no reason to defend them, but I do believe the people you describe as “unproductive” probably contributed more to founding/settling this country in its early days than just about any other group. Appalachia’s challenges, like many urban areas’, lie in a changing economy that simply needs less coal miners (just as cities need less factory workers); they’ve both definitely fallen on hard times for the past decades.

FWIW, I believe Appalachia has produced more Medal of Honor recipients than any other part of the country; certainly not a trait shared by the descendants of slaves (or Irish people, for that matter).


21 posted on 10/13/2016 1:27:43 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: rktman

I was raised at the end of national segregation and discrimination

Born in 1957

We were not taught to dislike or wish harm upon blacks

But we did fear their negative culture and crime and potential political power

Look around you

Yankees in whitelandia

Get in your car and head to Memphis and look around

And tell me about it

We were paternalistic

Noblesse Oblige


22 posted on 10/13/2016 1:36:13 PM PDT by wardaddy (the traitorous GOPe deserves Third of May 1808 if ever a party did....)
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To: Nifster

Yes I do but you evidently didn’t get my point


23 posted on 10/13/2016 3:38:30 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: rktman

Not related, but I haven’t seen a post from blackarmycaptain in a while...Anyone know if she is ok? She usually is prolific and content of what she digs up is great.


24 posted on 10/13/2016 3:41:52 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Without protecting the 4 boxes, we don't have the republic.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Saw something from BFAC the other day. Maybe 2 days ago?


25 posted on 10/13/2016 3:44:55 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: uncbob

Oh I understood what you said. I discounted it


26 posted on 10/13/2016 4:28:11 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: kearnyirish2

***When I hear whites speak like urban blacks I assume they have the same poor English skills;***

I remember my parents, High Plains, Rocky Mountain and Hill country of Tennessee always spoke with good English.

Then they moved to the Ozarks and it grated on my 10 year old nerves that they allowed their communication skills to fall to HILLBILLY backwoods levels! They NEVER used to talk like that!

They were afraid they would sound “better” than the locals, and would be considered “uppity”.


27 posted on 10/13/2016 5:28:59 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (HANDGUNS; You don’t need it until you need it. And when you need it you NEED IT!”)
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To: Nifster

Whether you discount it or not it is true


28 posted on 10/13/2016 7:21:43 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I guess I understand that; they didn’t want the neighbors thinking they were Yankees...


29 posted on 10/14/2016 2:49:06 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

They were from the High Plains-rocky mountains and the back hills of Tennessee. Nothing Yankee in either of them.


30 posted on 10/14/2016 7:23:43 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (HANDGUNS; You don’t need it until you need it. And when you need it you NEED IT!”)
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To: rktman

Walter has hit the nail squarely on the head. This is the reason colleges have become a joke and a college education has become less of a requirement with hiring companies.


31 posted on 10/14/2016 7:42:15 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I understand, but if you didn’t speak “hill people” you’d be regarded as a foreign entity.


32 posted on 10/15/2016 6:01:54 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: tbw2

Maybe but unproductive behavior is prevalent in many other cultures. I have been reading a book the growth of entrepreneurship, finance and capitalism (i.e. productive behavior!) around the world. Some cultures are about product behavior, some less so, some not at all at least in above the minimum to survive. Geographical northern regions have more. In northern climates staying alive is harder to do, so with severe winters you have to plan, defer gratification & produce! Southern climates less so, food, clothing shelter issues less severe so solutions to these problems need not be as immediate or efficient. Other factors:

1) Weaker central governments in the west & northern latitudes, property rights to a greater deal respected & individual freedom of action allowed to a greater degree.

2) Tribal oriented society (Order of loyalty & deference family, clan, tribe, maybe nation) much weaker in the north and west, where it’s stronger productive behavior is weaker, examples Scotland, & Ireland.

We think of Asians as being very productive & entrepreneurial and many such as the Chinese and Japanese are. Historically it was much harder for them to be, historically they were under governments that were weaker on property rights, and more arbitrary in its action & Confucianism made them look on government as something paternal. So they still had productive societies, productive to a certain level due to the fact they were laboring under huge inefficiencies. Remove those constraints & they take off. One of the PRC officials asked the very “un-Maoist” question, “Where are there poor Chinese? Answer in China!”. So he (Deng I think was his name!)was the one that started moving China away from Communism to authoritarian capitalism. It did make the average Chinese a little freer and better off, but they have a long way to go.

My 2 cents


33 posted on 10/15/2016 7:00:04 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily

Why socialism hits economic barriers in the south faster (Spain, Greece) versus Nordic nations.


34 posted on 10/15/2016 7:18:12 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Very likely!


35 posted on 10/15/2016 7:29:01 AM PDT by Reily
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