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Ferguson decision: A call to end criminalization of black youths: guest opinion
The Birmingham News ^ | December 26, 2014 | Ebony Howard, Sr. Staff Attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center

Posted on 12/26/2014 2:14:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

” —— And this fear of black boys remains woven within the American fabric.”


Bull !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m an 82 year old woman and this was NOT true when I was young.

I frequently took public transportation alone through black areas in Boston. No fears,even after dark.

The Black Power movement changed everything.

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81 posted on 12/26/2014 3:34:05 PM PST by Mears
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To: T-Bird45
It's called triage: no amount of public spending or teacher training can make up for the fact that 70% of blacks are born out of wedlock (even more for poor blacks).

The best that can be done is to weed out the disruptors and try to teach who's left.

82 posted on 12/26/2014 3:34:14 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My favorite photo of the year. Decade?


83 posted on 12/26/2014 3:35:01 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Maceman

That’s good that she is aware of the liberal views of many teachers. Those teachers may say they want to hear all points of view but that is usually not the case. Some teachers can be quite vindictive. With the real dangerous ones mirroring is sometimes a useful tool.


84 posted on 12/26/2014 3:37:50 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is that sign in your post #19 photo-shopped? Can it be real?!


85 posted on 12/26/2014 3:38:05 PM PST by PROCON (Merry CHRISTmas!!)
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To: holyscroller

‘What is a teacher to do?’ The last DAY I taught in the inner city, I sent about 14 of the students to the Principal’s office. He called my room and asked how many more were coming. I said, “I’m just sending the ones who are disrupting my class. The remaining FEW want to learn.’ That afternoon I went to his office and quit.

He said -”What do you think I should do? Tommy’s (6th grade) parents let little girls spend the weekend with him. What can I do in 5 hours?” I said I didn’t know, but that I figured I could make more money and have less stress street-walking.

Until the public schools can kick kids out for misbehavior, there will be no solution. The privates - they can kick any kid out any time they want to. The publics have to take them all. AND the black community makes a huge hoo-haa if anyone DARES to speak the Truth about the problem. One very popular science teacher dared to say that black kids’ behavior was the gorilla in the room that nobody was mentioning. He lost his job.

He now is on the School Board, however.


86 posted on 12/26/2014 3:39:43 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"many people are asking a heart-wrenching question: "Why don't black lives matter?"

A question I would direct to all the baby daddies missing in their children's lives.

87 posted on 12/26/2014 3:39:51 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Alcohol, drugs, family breakdown, rap/thug culture, welfare and racism against whites.


88 posted on 12/26/2014 3:42:59 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: outofsalt

Ask the LIB abortionists, also.


89 posted on 12/26/2014 3:45:36 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: GOPJ
"Without hopelessly dependent violent blacks (to make false promises to) White Liberal Elites couldn't get elected city dog catcher"

This is reminiscent of medieval times, when one couldn't be King if one didn't own peasants.

90 posted on 12/26/2014 3:47:02 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, stop the criminalization that they choose. No one forces them to commit violent crimes.

Their parents, friends and “leaders” teach them to hate the cops - how about stopping that!


91 posted on 12/26/2014 3:48:11 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: ladyjane
Those teachers may say they want to hear all points of view but that is usually not the case. Some teachers can be quite vindictive. With the real dangerous ones mirroring is sometimes a useful tool.

At the end of my daughter's freshman year, her science teacher went out on maternity leave. She was replaced by a substitute who showed "An Inconvenient Truth" to make the case for global warming. Then she gave her students an assignment to argue whether or not they thought global warming was true.

I gave my daughter the article about the UK judge who ruled that "An Inconvenient Truth" couldn't be shown in school without equal time in opposition, because the movie had nine glaring mis-statements of fact.

My daughter used that article as the basis for a rebuttal of the movie. The teacher returned the essay, with the written comment: "That's not proof." Like "An Inconvenient Truth" is.

When the report cards came out on the day of school, the substitute gave my daughter a full letter grade lower than her past grades, and than was justified by her test scores for the quarter.

92 posted on 12/26/2014 3:55:02 PM PST by Maceman
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To: Maceman

That is so wrong but I am not surprised. I have heard similar stories.

No wonder our country is in the shape it is in. Our children are exposed to propaganda, even in the first grade.

Arguing with these teachers is a waste of energy. Many of them are not very bright and are easily threatened by opposing views. What a mess.


93 posted on 12/26/2014 4:03:05 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: rocketmag
Just learned of a classmate of my son’s being attacked by 3 black youths on campus..the knockout game..Concussion and fractured eye socket.

No doubt this is just a little harmless school yard tussle that should be handled by a trip to the Principle's Office and maybe some detention.

Can't whites just stop whining about all this harmless kid stuff and stop picking on negroes? /s/

94 posted on 12/26/2014 4:03:25 PM PST by Gritty (Evidence suggests once you reach the post-Christian stage, you don't have much of a future-Mk Steyn)
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To: DJ Taylor
Here is some more light reading...

The Talk: Nonblack Version

95 posted on 12/26/2014 4:08:40 PM PST by Gritty (Evidence suggests once you reach the post-Christian stage, you don't have much of a future-Mk Steyn)
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To: PROCON

No, it’s a spoof.


96 posted on 12/26/2014 4:29:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: pierrem15

Understood on the triage and the ghetto bastard rate. Those who choose not to attempt to improve their circumstances through education should be shown the door. Unfortunately, our elected political masters continue to shear the tax-paying sheep while trying to solve an insurmountable cultural problem.


97 posted on 12/26/2014 4:30:12 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My comment: Morris Dees divorce papers. Just sayin’.....


98 posted on 12/26/2014 4:58:23 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: bboop

And make a living in the NBA.


99 posted on 12/26/2014 5:08:09 PM PST by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mr. Howard, look in the mirror.

There’s your problem.


100 posted on 12/26/2014 5:09:36 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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