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Walter Williams:"Whom do you think Frederick Douglass would deem the sell-out: those who seek an alternative to rotten schools that cost taxpayers $13,000 a year per student or those who support the status quo?"
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Charley Reese: "If you white liberal racists crave gratitude, buy yourself a dog and feed it properly."
And: "Judges who apply the law as it is to the facts as they are is what we need. If we had those kinds of judges, it wouldn't matter if they were liberal or conservative."
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Guys, Charley Reese has a related article at King Features Syndicate Inc. today. Finally, writers are putting the blame where it truly belongs. Those in POWER making policy. And, considering the education of these, there is NO WAY that the destruction IS NOT deliberate. What passes for education today is pure unadulterated EVIL!!! Peace and love, George.

To Charley Reese and all you think he is right:
First: we live in America, a blatantly white racist society, where non whites have suffered and continue to suffer injustices by whites and the laws that govern. If you pay attention to this nation's history, you'll see that there have been exceptional people of all races in all endeavors. You seem to forget the climate that still exists for particularly Black, and many non-white people in regard to any endeavor of achievement, even White women: that the white boy gets the first and best of everything, regardless of your superior or determined efforts. The best educational efforts are made where the money is spent and typically non-white eduactional districts don't get the educational attention ($) white districts get, regardless of the parents efforts. Black parents have been your scapegoat long enough.
Second: You can't police someone's mind. The laws that exist now are basically the same as they were some 20 years ago. If an employer (or a dean) didn't want any peolpe of color in his firm(or school), none entered, or entered and worked in a diminished capacity. I agree, affirmative action aleviated some of the white man's guilt. Without a legal mandate (and sports) whites would not have willingly opened the educational doors to blacks, because in many circles the practice was unaccepable, aside from the continued undercurrent of white supremacy, something you are still purporting here.
And: I live in Westchester County, New York. Within 5 miles, one high school is conducted like a small college campus with many activites, well run and attended functions, beautiful school grounds and is fed by solid pre-school and primary ed programs, the other high school is staffed with security guards (that do little or nothing) has regular fights, has teachers afraid of the kids, and has poorly staffed, poorly run programs, fed by kids who come from programs with no computers, not enough books or desks, poorly trained teachers. Which area needs the most financial help? which school system will graduate kids ready to compete in college? WHICH SYSTEM WILL DO NOTHING BUT FEED THE STATE PENAL SYSTEM? WHICH AREAS KIDS FEEL LIKE THEY'VE BEEN GIVEN UP ON FROM VERY EARLY ON? That is why "some" kids do better than others: some are actually nurtured by the combination of school, family and society, or factions thereof.
This "America" still has a lot of problems. One is the sharing of information. You people still forget the effect living in this white socety has on Black people. Even though I wear a Suit and tie to work evry day, I still have white women, clutch their purses closer to themselves when I pass, and still have white men and women look out of their car windows and blatantly lock the doors. What are they trying to tell me? You and the "handkerchief head" negroes beleive the "playing field is level"?