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Walmart looting = Reparations for Blacks
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gjohnson5
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gjohnson5 said:
Infact the educational system here in America seems to be the genral problem with this thread. It really is a shame that Crispus Attucks gets more talk in history books then Maya Angelou. The fact that the first person to die in the revolutionary war was black may be in important point , but it seems as if the eductional system has been in denial ever since...
I would go so far as to say the only blacks that 'get discussed at the dinner table" would be professional athletes... This is also a travesty in my mind and an indication that race relations definitly still strained... With Latino populations rising in America , the "majority" may find themselves to be a minority. Infact I've already read threads about Texas where white has complained about the rising populations of latinos and the sole reason for this in thier words "illegal immigration".
The statement "can't we all just get along" How am I supposed to get along with people who make statements like "thier looting because they are black" While being 75% black?? Such a statement can only be viewed in one manner, but unfortunately there are mutiple people with similar feeling. I could turn a blind eye and just ignore. I feel that ignornace is 1/2 of the problem here and the sole reason why such statements have not been heavily punished to date.
Well I am going to leave this thread and head for less inflamatory and more intelligent speech.
GJ,
I attended primary school in a location where inner city kids were given opportunities that upper crust, suburban white kids could not buy if they tried. Without fail, the educational opportunites presented were rebuked with negative attitudes composed of feelings of being ''wronged'' and displaying attitudes similiar to the ''just want to hustle.'' Over 90% of these kids were black. I was a suburban white kid who was able to attend this school due to the fact that my mother taught in the district.
Want to know what happened to this district? The program folded due to abysmal achievement test scores.
The point of this post: In this example (lets not kid like it's isolated) numerous black kids were given the opportunity to learn a skill that would put them ahead of even private school educated kids, and most of them threw it away. Just fucking pissed on it. In my opinion it was their piss poor attitude about how they've been constantly wronged their whole life by a white male population. The same white male dominated population who funded the schools they threw away.
Before you start trying to pick apart my argument saying it's soley conjecture, take this into account: I attended those magnet schools, and my mom was a teacher representative to the school board.
To validate my claims, I invite you to google or do any search on the desegregation programs which took place in the Kansas City Missouri school district during the early to mid 90's.
I dont have to be a bigot to know that from my experience that it's the attitude, not aptitude of the black community which continues to ''keep them down''
A similar problem you illustrate yourself. Instead of focusing on positive steps society can take to paint a more fair (in your opinion) picture of the black community, you're argument is based soley on percieved prejudices in the educational (indoctrination) system in the US. Focus on ways the black community can better itself and its image; things like lower crime, less drug use, less ''hustler'' attitude.
I attended primary school in a location where inner city kids were given opportunities that upper crust, suburban white kids could not buy if they tried. Without fail, the educational opportunites presented were rebuked with negative attitudes composed of feelings of being ''wronged'' and displaying attitudes similiar to the ''just want to hustle.'' Over 90% of these kids were black. I was a suburban white kid who was able to attend this school due to the fact that my mother taught in the district.
Want to know what happened to this district? The program folded due to abysmal achievement test scores.
The point of this post: In this example (lets not kid like it's isolated) numerous black kids were given the opportunity to learn a skill that would put them ahead of even private school educated kids, and most of them threw it away. Just fucking pissed on it. In my opinion it was their piss poor attitude about how they've been constantly wronged their whole life by a white male population. The same white male dominated population who funded the schools they threw away.
Before you start trying to pick apart my argument saying it's soley conjecture, take this into account: I attended those magnet schools, and my mom was a teacher representative to the school board.
To validate my claims, I invite you to google or do any search on the desegregation programs which took place in the Kansas City Missouri school district during the early to mid 90's.
I dont have to be a bigot to know that from my experience that it's the attitude, not aptitude of the black community which continues to ''keep them down''
A similar problem you illustrate yourself. Instead of focusing on positive steps society can take to paint a more fair (in your opinion) picture of the black community, you're argument is based soley on percieved prejudices in the educational (indoctrination) system in the US. Focus on ways the black community can better itself and its image; things like lower crime, less drug use, less ''hustler'' attitude.
http://www.amren.com/9512issue/9512issue.html#cover (thanks to the person who PM'd me this link)
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cach...2issue/9512issue.html+&hl=en&client=firefox-a
wtf? that got me here at the hospital too. I had to go to google's cache to get there.
wtf? that got me here at the hospital too. I had to go to google's cache to get there.
Steve The Bluesman
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Whoa, long thread...
Just my opinion - if this lawlessness continues for another 24 hours, we will see the NG collect every living person from the area and throw them in internment camps, both to get them food and water AND to keep them from causing further destruction in the city. Those that don't go, or resist, are going to be shot where they stand. The NG might have another Kent State on thier hands pretty soon, but it won't be their fault.
I am thinking this will look like the Cuban refugees living under the highways of Miami after the 1980 Cuban Boat Lift.
It is a bad situation - lack of water, food, clean clothes, beds, AC. On top of this you have people that are taking advantage of the situation by looting, shooting, robbing...it is shaping up to be a huge social disaster.
The People of NY took pride in their city and pride in being New Yorkers after 9/11. What we are seeing in NO is the complete opposite.
Bluesman
Just my opinion - if this lawlessness continues for another 24 hours, we will see the NG collect every living person from the area and throw them in internment camps, both to get them food and water AND to keep them from causing further destruction in the city. Those that don't go, or resist, are going to be shot where they stand. The NG might have another Kent State on thier hands pretty soon, but it won't be their fault.
I am thinking this will look like the Cuban refugees living under the highways of Miami after the 1980 Cuban Boat Lift.
It is a bad situation - lack of water, food, clean clothes, beds, AC. On top of this you have people that are taking advantage of the situation by looting, shooting, robbing...it is shaping up to be a huge social disaster.
The People of NY took pride in their city and pride in being New Yorkers after 9/11. What we are seeing in NO is the complete opposite.
Bluesman
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juicedmohawk said:
Even if your assumptions were true....what does the Kansas City School System have to do with people of color overall ? Is it fair to say that what goes on in Kansas City applies to the masses ?
when you say keep them down...who exactly are you referring to ?
Although I think there are certain aspects which apply to the spirited racial discussion that has been the prevailing theme of this thread, the post was directed at GJ's assessment (spelling?) of the american educational/indoctrination experience.2ez said:
No, I dont think its that far of a jump to use KC as a representative sample of the attitude which plagues the black culture. I've since relocated and live in the Little Rock Arkansas area. Little Rock seems to be the invisible line between the midsouth and the dirty south. My experience hasn't been isolated. There was recently a 10 year follow up story done on some landmark investigative reporting/research in the Little Rock area having to do with gang violence which was started in 1995 (dont have the results handy, will try to find them). Because of it's strategic location along the intersection of Interstates 40 and 65, Little Rock has been a key location of major drug trafficking and violence in the midsouth.
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