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This is beyond sick - Thanks obama
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:46:09 -0400, Gene
wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:17:26 -0700, jps wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:59:18 -0400, Ernie wrote: On 3/13/2011 4:37 PM, jps wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:51:40 -0400, wrote: On 3/13/2011 2:37 PM, WaIIy wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:54:26 -0400, wrote: On 3/12/11 11:31 PM, WaIIy wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:43:05 -0800, "Lew Hodgett" wrote: Subject Bigotry, night and day you torture me. Lew Sorry, I posted this to the wrong group. alt.whitepower? "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King - Dream Speech The words affirmative action would have him rolling over in his grave. Having been a victim of discrimination, he'd have welcomed a program that'd help reintegrate blacks into mainstream society. That was what affirmative action was meant to do. Like any policy, it probably strayed a bit too far in one direction or another, but the basic premise was a good one and worthy of pursuit. We've come a long ways since "strange fruit" hung in the south for no reason but we're by no means cured. MLK said nothing about pushing folks to the head of the line because they are black. He wanted equal oportunities based on character and intelligence. It is a simple sentence and still you don't get it. I'm not the one who doesn't get it. Whites still have an unfair advantage in this country and you've got to be deaf, dumb and blind not to recognize it. You just don't want to admit it. You have, obviously, never done social work..... drop the party line, rub your eyes and check it out.... this is 2011 and your president isn't a WASP... Gene, I live in a city that's well-educated and progressive. Our city is deeply divided by color and economics and the kids in the central district are in schools that are signficantly inferior to those in middle-class and higher neighborhoods. This is the same problem faced by city after city in America. Without something specific being done about it, opportunity is less available to children of color and specifically black children. If you think hiring practices don't favor whites, you're wrong. If you don't think a person of color is automatically considered a higher risk for being a shoplifter, you're wrong. If you think that blacks aren't 2 to 3 times more likely to be pulled over by police, you're wrong. If you think that blacks aren't systematically given longer sentences for similar crimes, you're wrong. That Obama was elected was an amazing moment and stride forward for our country. For you to assume in any way that represents our emergence from bigotry and systematic undercutting of opportunity for blacks is really naive. Anyone can pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but it's significantly harder for any black to do so when compared to a white. When that's no longer true, perhaps we'll agree. |
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