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Posted on 01/03/2012 10:33:44 AM PST by InspCallahan
Black people don't have opportunities to benefit from technology, and it's racist to suggest otherwise. That is the only lesson to be drawn from the racially charged tempest unleashed by the infamous Forbes article "If I Were a Poor Black Kid."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“The soft bigotry of low expectations.”
I’m not sure that most of the criticisms were about the lack of access to technology.
The criticism seems to be about the “If I were a poor black kid with white middle-class values and no significant hindrance from peers, family or environment” assumptions of the essay.
Don’t forget the “Al Gore” tax on your monthly telephone bill.
There was a big fight over this tax back around 1998. The Clinton administration wanted to levy this tax on individual telephone accounts but have it paid by the telephone companies so it would not appear on our telephone bills. The telephone companies could pass on the cost as a rate increase but were not to tell us what caused the increase. They Clinton administration got the “Al Gore Tax” increase but lost the battle to forde the telephone companies to hide it.
The tax is supposed to provide money for “universal service programs” that provide “affordable telephone service” and give schools and libraries internet access and other “advanced communications services”.
By now we all know what the code words “universal” and affordable” really mean when used by the federal government.
In this case it means free cell phones, free home telephones, free computers and free internet access for certain individuals and schools - all based on “need” (another code word).
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