Posted on 06/27/2002 11:38:41 AM PDT by frmrda
Here is a portion of Justice Thomas' opinion in teh voucher case that will have liberals blowing a gasket:
While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society. As Thomas Sowell noted 30 years ago: Most black people have faced too many grim, concrete problems to be romantics. They want and need certain tangible results, which can be achieved only by developing certain specific abilities. Black Education: Myths and Tragedies 228 (1972). The same is true today. An individuals life prospects increase dramatically with each successfully completed phase of education. For instance, a black high school dropout earns just over $13,500, but with a high school degree the average income is almost $21,000. Blacks with a bachelors degree have an average annual income of about $37,500, and $75,500 with a professional degree. See U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States 140 (2001) (Table 218). Staying in school and earning a degree generates real and tangible financial benefits, whereas failure to obtain even a high school degree essentially relegates students to a life of poverty and, all too often, of crime.8 The failure to provide education to poor urban children perpetuates a vicious cycle of poverty, dependence, criminality, and alienation that continues for the remainder of their lives. If society cannot end racial discrimination, at least it can arm minorities with the education to defend themselves from some of discriminations effects
-Clarence Thomas. Washington Post, (October 28, 1994)
Your implication is that Muslims are superior. You are saying that if Muslims educate their young in their doctrince with tax dollars and we educate our younsters in our doctrine with tax dollars, then our children will grow up to be defeated by Muslims.
The other side of your argument is that if Muslim children and our Childern are both eductated in socialist govenment schools our kids and the Muslim kids will become good little socialist liberals together. Perhaps you think they could learn to sing the "BARNEY" song together.
They would until the Muslim kid wore his dynamite jacket to school.
Unless you are saying that Muslims are inherently evil, Muslims raising their kids to be Muslims is not a lot different than Catholics raising their kids to be Catholics, or Protestants raising their kids to be Protestants or Atheists rasing their kids to be Atheists. The problem is public schools teach kids that they are to docile subjects of the power structure. Public education sets them up to be conquered by any people with the will to do it. The Muslims don't have the way... but they do have the will.
If we don't want to go the way of the Soviet Union we must end our socialist school system. And if the result of this ruling is that all parents get to raise their chilren as they want, then Muslims raising the their children to to be Muslims doesn't frighten me at all. A government school system teaching my grandchilren and Muslim children to be socialist slaves bothers me a lot.
...he'll become chief justice...
mhking, I agree. But this (and other SC appointments by Bush) will be WAR. We had best get prepared.
Thomas Sowell will be remembered for centuries for his ground breaking work, and the intellectual foundations he laid opposing leftist dogma.
Has anyone noticed that the greatest conservatives (anti-leftists) are black. I think it has an awful lot to do with the gauntlet they run from genuine racism to all the leftist poverty pimps. To be black and conservative in present day America represents the epitome of intellectual courage.
During Thomas' confirmation hearings Ted Kennedy scornfully bruited the possibility that Thomas might be a friend of Sowell's.Thomas had to sit there and say nothing.
That was then, this is now . . .
Actually, if you get down to brass tacks, the whole court case was about how not whether the First Amendment applies to the city of Cleveland. Few question the whether, these days, tho the First Amendment of course addresses itself specifically to limiting the role of "Congress." But of course there were established churches in some of the 13 original states when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were ratified. And for decades afterward . . .The lefties want to extend the "establishment" clause so far as to moot the "free exercise" clause of the First Amendment. This decision didn't help them . . .
The GOP lead the charge in the civil war and in the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965. This will be no different, and the Dems will claim credit after the fact.
I didn't read it that way, I read it as more of a slap in the face of the left. He's essentially throwing their B.S. right back at them when he says "...If society cannot end racial discrimination, at least it can arm minorities with the education to defend themselves from some of discriminations effects" ..In other words he's telling the left to put up or shut up.
That sentence alone explains the thinking of the majority of blacks in this country - and many whites, too. They don't see "the government" as a group of people hired by them to protect their rights, but as a sugar daddy who gives them things.
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