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To: epicure who wrote (317)	7/31/2006 11:56:31 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1695

"you wouldn't want to exclude the Mormon families that want to practice polygamy according to their scripture." hmm written by a man 150 years ago, that's makes it scripture?? oh well. What is scripture?

To: epicure who wrote (317)	8/1/2006 10:11:29 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1695

Guilt trip "White guilt affects everything having to do with race in America. ... White guilt has given us a euphemistic language with which to discuss race. ... "That said, white guilt undermines black progress and race relations because it generates disingenuous racial policies -- diversity, affirmative action, and welfare without expectations (until the late '90s). These policies enable whites to fend off the racist stigma they live with but rob blacks of the incentive to work harder for their own advancement. All these 'white guilt' policies ask nothing whatsoever of blacks. They are an incentive to weakness rather than strength. Black high school students did worse on the SAT in 2000 than in 1990. These students know that low performance is no bar to the racial preferences of affirmative action. So why work harder? Yet American institutions almost fanatically support 'white guilt' policies because the legitimacy of these institutions now depends on their proving themselves free of racism. White guilt means that America's racial reforms serve the innocent whites while facilitating weakness in minorities." --Shelby Steele, author of "White Guilt," interviewed Thursday in Front Page at www.frontpagemag.com