Posted on 11/17/2001 5:55:04 PM PST by stainlessbanner
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:38:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON
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You notice that the NAACP didn't ask the same of their first black president office.
NAACP is just another arm of the DNC and its becoming quite apparent more and more each and every coming day.
As an engineer believe it or not though we try to come up with ways to help persons with disabilities or special needs (not just physically handicap) to intergrate into the job market or help them have a better life style. There are also other agencies public and private with programs that help with this. How effective they are I'm not qualified to answer that. The Lord's got a purpose for all of us though. That much I know.
School Choice
Just what we need - - give them more incentive to have babies like flies.
Maybe all school systems should emulate the Missouri / Kansas City model, lol.
Some more ideas:
(Keep in mind the ending a requirement does NOT mean eliminating the option!)
Now that we know what to do, let's get it done!!!
NAAWP
WET
Congressional White Caucus
White Police Officer's Assn.
Historically White Colleges
etc.
I take it you do approve of this inequality? BTW, at what hypothetical future point-in-time would you say there would not be a need for the NAACP and like organizations?
There is an NAAWP, run by David Duke. Also, though these colleges label themselves "Historically Black Colleges," based on how and why they evolved, no white person is denied admission or discouraged from attending any of them. I attended one and there were quite a few whites in its professional schools.
Institutions and organizations with the word "Black," African American" "Hispanic" or whatever in them usually were started in response to real or perceived inequality in the form of exclusion from opportunity.
Now you and I know that legally, blacks and others are not legally excluded from opportunities but history continues to shape many social, economic and other opportunities no matter what the laws say. Until each of us feels we don't need entities like the NAACP they will continue to exist. I personally can get by without them but then I've never been faced with a situation that I couldn't handle myself.
Where the hell do you live -- where Welfare is ended?
Is your definition of "work", any more realistic than Clinton's meaning of the word - "IS"?
Semper Fi
It just happened in my state with a magnet school program. A black H.S. took it over and now, nobody wants to send their kids to the magnet program in the middle of crack city. Doesn't help the blacks, doesn't help the other students who might attend the magnet - it's not helping anybody. However, it does help meet federal racial quotas....
Don't get me started on the consent decree business either. The feds have really hosed up our educational system.
The Lord helps those who help themselves. The blacks need to turn off Springer and rebuild their families in an educated way! PS: It's not racial - all of us could use some improvement. Just not all of us complain like the NAACP.
I'd prefer not to call it welfare since the people are working and the word "welfare" has been used to stigmatize folks long enough.
This is too often true- I've told more than one black education professional that they have no excuse sitting by and allowing black students to fail year after year. If I were some of them I'd be ashamed to pick up a paycheck from a system that fails so many but then, that paycheck does provide for some nice homes, clothes, cars, etc., not to mention private schools for a lot of their kids.
Until each of us feels we don't need entities like the NAACP they will continue to exist.
That statement, of course, could be defined as forever. I take it you also mean there will always be a need for me to have BET piped into my home and for a thing like the Congressional Black Caucus to speak as one voice?
You really are sounding an awful lot like the race-baiter Julianne Malveaux. I suggest that you might want to read some of the speeches and writings of Ward Connerly as an alternative to whatever is influencing you now.
Ridiculous. All I've done is try to explain to you why some blacks feel a need to have and support the NAACP and "Black" organizations. If that's race-baiting and if I sound like Malveaux to you then you're beyond trying to have a reasonable discussion with.
I suggest that you might want to read some of the speeches and writings of Ward Connerly as an alternative to whatever is influencing you now.
What influences me is what I've seen and heard in my own life. No black person has ever needed anyone else to tell him how racist this society can be. If you think we are nothing more than mere sponges waiting for JJ, Sharpton, Mfume, etc. to come along and tell us how to think you're sorely mistaken and need to get a clue.
FYI, I've heard Connerly speak in person twice and talked to him after one of those appearances. I've read plenty of articles about him. I support his desire to get beyond labeling by race but I don't need him to influence me any more than I do Malveaux. Understand??
I can't see why BET is so threatening or upsetting to you. Your television has either a remote or a way to change channels or both. You don't like BET, don't point your remote there OK? It's really that simple.
In Texas, after Bush had been governor four years, ALL students were doing better. If Mfume and the NAACP want black children to do better in school, they should support Bush's education programs -- especially support for vouchers and oppose the democrats and the nea and their repressive programs that keep blacks ignorant and dependent.
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