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NAACP addresses cheerleading (suspend local cheerleading because squads are all white)
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| 9-13-02
| MARK BRUMLEY
Posted on 09/14/2002 1:39:33 AM PDT by Michael2001
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To: Michael2001
"If the two races are to meet upon terms of social equality, it must be the result of natural affinities, a mutual appreciation of each other's merits and a voluntary consent of individuals."
"Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation."
Plessy v Ferguson 163 US 537
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To: superdestroyer
So whats your point?
That black women are discriminated against in athletics?
Or that black women just don't participate out of lack of interest?
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posted on
09/14/2002 5:55:43 AM PDT
by
Kozak
To: Michael2001
The Board of Education took no action Thursday on a request by the local NAACP to suspend all cheerleading after the chapter president complained that all of the students on the middle and high schools squads are white. Suspend the NAACP. All the members are black.
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To: superdestroyer
I was so thrilled when my daughter was a cheerleader in middle school...she 'only' cost me about $1000 for uniforms, dance classes, etc., not to mention the time to chauffer her to various events.
I don't begrudge her any of this, only to point out that the NAACP complaint is so specious if they think that an $18 fee is holding back lower income kids, minority or not.
Now, thanks to our Robin Hood school funding system in Texas, she (I) will have to pay $150 (not including uniforms, dance classes, etc.) so that she can participate in Lariats (drill team), while $25 million of our local tax money goes to other school districts in the state.
My daughter is Hispanic (Mom's side), will LULAC help us out? Didn't think so.
To: mhking
Your #16, What a beautiful way to wake up in the morning. Thanks.
Honey, are you awake yet?
To: Texas_Jarhead
I'm still waiting for them to decry to over-representation of blacks in basketball.Good point. Been waiting for the same thing myself. The only cry is for more representation as owners and coaches, eventually a complete monopoly.
Yeah, that's equality!
To: Darth Sidious
Local liberal insanity bump.
To: AGreatPer; mhking
Honey, are you awake yet?Any male NOT awake after viewing those lovelies is: six feet under; or gay.
I, for one, am now WIDE AWAKE. Thanks, mh!!!
To: mhking
Two words: "Oh" and "my!"
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To: superdestroyer
They don't address how many blacks applied for positions.
They don't discuss the possibility that talent and merit play a part in the selection process.
They don't bother with trying to find the reasons that blacks aren't on the squad (maybe every qualified girl is on the dance squad, on another sports team, is dancing on a private instructor's dance team, is uninterested in the ugly uniforms at a particular school, or maybe cheerleading is simply "uncool" in that school and only the band-rejects cheer).
In short, all they see is an outcome they can complain about so they do, just like those "racist and culturally biased" SAT scores.
Attention NAACP: I'm not whining about not being a starter on the numerous all-black NBA starting line-ups, because I know that my talent does not merit a spot on that team. When you whine about "unfair" outcomes without addressing the selection process, the percentages of blacks applying, and the reasons for the "inequity", you're simply playing the race card and intentionally trying to remove merit-based decision-making. Hopefully America is tiring of that nonsense.
To: RckyRaCoCo
From what I've read, there are rumblings coming from the NAACP crowd, that too many teams are signing Europeans to their squads.
I'm not going to say whether its good or bad. Rather, an indication that the rest of the world is catching up in the level of basketball skills. Just look at the improvement of Dirk Nowitzki over the past four years! If the rest of the Mavericks could show the same improvement, we MIGHT have a chance this year against the Lakers! :^)
IMHO, there are only three things that can stop the Laker juggernaut: boredom, injuries to Shaq or Kobe, or Father Time. However, it will be fun to watch motivated owners like Mark Cuban do their best to prove me wrong!
To: mhking
The bunch of boobs at the NAACP don't measure up to this squad.
To: Michael2001
A couple of years ago the (now) head of our local chapter complained that a math worksheet had a couple of problems that showed the light haired girl knew more math than the dark haired girl. Now the dark haired girl was not black but it was claimed "that you all know what that really mean."
No I did not forget the "s".
To: Michael2001
Does anyone remember what a former governor of Arkansas said that NAACP stood for? I want to see how many seniors are reading this.
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posted on
09/14/2002 6:43:44 AM PDT
by
Piquaboy
To: Michael2001
Don't these irrelevant dinosaurs have anything better to do? [rhetorical question].
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posted on
09/14/2002 6:46:16 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: DaBroasta
Racism 2000 = Blacks not getting their way.Check that. Racism 2000 = LEFTIST Blacks not getting their way.
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09/14/2002 6:48:42 AM PDT
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rdb3
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