Please read " Two Nations, Black and White, Seperate, Hostile, Unequal " By Andrew Hacker
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R.B.Green
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Thank You Baraka and Epistrophy How can anyone stand next to the Strom Thurmund/Tren Lott 's of the world and say " I'm not a racist !!! " Let's consider the sense of entitlement which continues to permeate our society. Todays wealthy believe they deserve their gains because of their own acumen and the poor just don't have " it ". Baraka has a good point. Scorp is definetely seasoning his children before sending them out to colonize. Always conservatively and using the brand " Salt of the Earth "
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Scorp and other Repubs. want to point the racist finger at Dems ?!?! Answer the Trent Lott Question !!!!
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If racism hasn't held you back I suppose you can gurantee your wage will be the same as your white counterparts ... Do they have affirmative action at Berkley? It's easy to say " I made it why can't you ?" You can be as responsible as you want , but if you don't have a Math textbook you are not going to pass Math. If you have no bootstraps you can't pull them up... Please reread Majormajor and Epistrophy above and try to understand... The handfull of our sucessful fellow African-Americans you encountered are as diverse as the Gangstaz on …
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tina No wonder our prisons are growing ?!?!? This aspect is so encompasing (and already covered in these comments ) that it is obvious you don't want to REALLY understand.... However let's address the last comment from Kuya The " Power of this belief in ones own value " is not something you are born with ... IT IS NOT IN YOUR GENES the support that you recieve is : The amount of attention your Parents,Teachers, Extended Family,Mentors,Professors & others can give you / (Divided By - for those of us who had a Math book ) your circumstance ( Priveage,Wealth, …
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tina 1 ONE You said " First of all, I never blamed poor children " But before that YOU said " Your (Baraka) reply is exactly why our schools are screwed up. You blame it on the teacher not the student " uh huh TWO You Said " I love how you Libs always throw out the word " Hate '" when someone doesn't agree with you... " By definition Liberal -adj.- not narrow in mind : Broad-minded : an outlook marked by tolerance..." Libs did not invent the word " Hate " nor did Libs " throw out the word …
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No Amens for you blacktown Seperate is not equal Please refer to " How War Began " by Keith Otterbein for a better understanding of how Nations formed Problems like this don't "get solved" , esp. by "treehouses" Gangs build "treehouses" all day Yo The color of my skin is still a subset of me being human and I have to live with that ... We all MUST....
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You have to know what truth is before you can choose it. Developing new patterns of existence begins with compasion and understanding and not the notion that everyone can be enlightened if they just want to. I am ashamed that fellow americans who have SOME ancestral connection to Africa want to believe that the 94% of inner city high school youths who live in Chicago who don't graduate can all go to college if they just pick themselves up and do it .If they are fortunate enough to graduate high school, they're not prepared for what is to come .Is it …
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Nay , it is EVERYONES responsibility for the type of transformation we seek to take place, not just people who have darker skin than others.The ills of humanity are " intertwined " and to isolate our problems as unique is to view the " particles " and not the whole, Again it's " ...how one chooses to address his/her individual poverty ...." Talk about the caged bird
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Mr. Carl Davidson Thank you . Yet it is a majority of the country which will not insist on the "positive path" because It's not in the places they live. Our human entanglement goes beyond neighborhood "culture". The big question - can we really live together ?
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Some just don't understand how politics works - As an elected official, if you ask me to tell the truth, I can say ANYTHING and unless you catch me red handed - it's the truth isn't it ?!? ... Bush the first was asked about covert operations in a press confrence and I'll never forget how he answered. He said we (adm.) will continue to use covert operation for the good of America. Thats why we have elections. If the American people don't like it, they can vote us out. there you have it
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Good people It strikes me that the regurgitation of useless information that passes for education in this country feeds directly into the corporate conglomerate.Young children are not allowed to find areas of intrest that are "outside" structured teaching.The college students who don't have silver spoons are forced to pay loans to insure their economic role back into the mainstream.... This educational quagmire can be called "progress" because of a very simple political tool used by both Dems and Repubs in many different areas - "Our economy is healthy...." "Brownie's doin' a great job ...." "The War in Iraq is going well...." …
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I wanna know who's next
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Welfare reform ? You mean the policy of removing the federal money for the people who need assistance in order for them to make even less money in the "Private "sector?? read "Nickled and Dimed" by Barbera Ehrenreich
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How can we stop this ?? the voodoo is building....... bills on the table in congress yesterday are taking away the nessesary assistance for low income families/individuals to go to school,feed their family,survive on less than a living wage and giving tax breaks to corporate interests (halliburton?!?!?) in order for those "dollars to "Trickle Down?!?!" to whom??? Looking at the oil spills in the gulf I ask who really cares. The answer is - Prussian Blue cares as long as you are White Welcome to America another great book Guns, Germs, And Steel by Jared Diamond Politics are so far under …
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I am a 45 year old africian-american born in Chicago High school in Peoria This is really how Amerika is. We played The Pekin "Chinks" in my first HS football game.That was their "mascot" until the late 80's
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wwoods That's exactly how it is. Couple your posts with the fact that people seem to have a sense of entitlement as to what their status is and what they deserve and you have understood the present mindset. Our tribal exclusion of others who are different is the basis of the social constructs of " race " which we perpetuate willingly daily. As for the facts Several economists have said the unemployment rate only a measure of those people who are considered "in" the work force. Other stats show clearly that people just stopped looking above the radar. Before Katrina, New …
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