Posted on 06/07/2018 1:38:26 PM PDT by American Quilter
I had lunch recently with a colleague of mine named Allan. He’s a retired professor who once taught at a university in New York and now teaches inside prisons. Allan was talking in despairing tones about America and wanted to know my thoughts on the matter.
When I asked him to be more specific, he was taken aback at the idea that further clarification was needed. He couldn’t understand my failure to see the utter hopelessness of the society all around me. Allan is 68 years old and a self-proclaimed Marxist. Both of his parents were surgeons from New York, and he attended private schools all his life. He graduated from Harvard and Princeton with degrees in philosophy and French literature. Although he and I are on opposite ends of the political spectrum, I still enjoy the sharpness of Allan’s mind and his compassionate spirit; but I resist, as best as I can, his extreme pessimism. He believes mankind is going to be felled soon by an apocalyptic revolutionary blow, courtesy of the international working class. Until such time comes, however, he will remain in a state of despair about the United States.
“Jason, black men are being killed in this country,” he said.
“Oh, I know that,” I said. “They are being exterminated.” I went on: “We both live in Chicago, where they are being massacred on a weekly and daily basis, but who is killing them? Huh? Are white cops going in and slaughtering them? Are white people from the suburbs gunning them down? Is the military going in and killing these black men?”
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Thanks, BBell, for posting the rest of the article.
Your welcome.
My apologies, you’re correct of course.
He’s careless in his reference to Howard, Dillard, and Fisk Universities. They were all founded shortly after the end of the Civil War, when Julius Rosenwald was a child (he was born in 1862). His Rosenwald Fund benefited black education later, but not when those institutions were first established.
No surprise there; sociologists have made it clear for decades that nuclear families give people an “edge” - and the lack of them drags many blacks down.
No apology needed; been there, done that!
God love those kids; may they free many more from the RAT thralldom!
Yup. You can always tell a Harvard man. But you can’t tell him much. Metrosexual, academic Marxists. The irony these idiots don’t understand is that in a truly Marxist society they’d be the first ones put to the wall.
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