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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145784)	10/14/2012 6:57:06 PM
From: locogringo	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224769

kennedy, are you too old to remember when the Democratic party cared about working people in the factories and mills and fields? All they care about now are the whacko radicals, the freeloaders and obamaphone suckups, and the freakjobs like you that sold their soul for a few measily bucks and attaboys. Look in the mirror and tell me that you are proud of what you degenerated into and have sadly become. You can still be saved, but I seriously doubt it. You enjoy the freebies too much, and don't mind pimping for a foreign muslim as long as you are on the receiving end. It makes me want to cry.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145784)	10/14/2012 7:04:34 PM
From: locogringo	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224769

BTW............have pleasant dreams............. R 49% O 47% and (2 separate links for morons ...HTH) R 49% O 47%

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145784)	10/14/2012 7:08:06 PM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224769

kenny..."lorne, are you old enough to remember white affirmative action?"... Sure, That's when Whites affirmed affirmative action for Blacks?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145784)	10/14/2012 7:26:32 PM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224769

kenny..."lorne, are you old enough to remember white affirmative action?".... While you are on this topic you could ponder this..... ...."Katznelson argues that these national government interventions - essential to deal with global depression, world war and peacetime readjustment - produced a virtual social transformation, a middle-class welfare state, in which white and black Americans participated and benefited. However, southern Democrats in Congress held the balance of power in the majority party and effectively, if figuratively, vetoed legislation that might destabilise the region's social order of racial segregation and exclusion. To accommodate the "solid south", laws and programmes were deliberately designed to protect white interests and advantages, although ostensibly meant to be colour-blind. For example, Social Security and minimum wages excluded agricultural and domestic workers; three-quarters of African-Americans lived in the south where their employment was concentrated in agriculture and domestic service. Where such indirect exclusion could not be written into legislation, Congress mandated decentralised administration, state and/or local, allowing covert discrimination e.g. in vocational training for veterans. Private-sector providers often discriminated, north and south; e.g. mortgage lenders refused federally guaranteed loans to low-income veterans and on properties in disfavoured locations, relatively excluding more blacks than whites. The effect was to deny African-Americans their fair shares of social and economic goods. The whole pie and every piece grew, but the relative size of the African-American piece diminished. This is the "untold history of racial inequality".... Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. New York and London, W.W. Norton, 2005 americansc.org.uk

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145784)	10/14/2012 7:32:32 PM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224769

kenny.... Posted by one of your betters on these threads.... Locogringo.... Message 28472172 It's official in Florida: Blacks can't be held to same standards The deep internal contradictions of liberal race dogma have reached their logical, horrifying conclusion at the hands of the Florida State Board of Education. CBS Tampa reports: The Florida State Board of Education passed a plan that sets goals for students in math and reading based upon their race. On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent. It also measures by other groupings, such as poverty and disabilities, reported the Palm Beach Post. The message sent to young people is clear: blacks, Hispanics, and whites simply cannot be expected to perform at the level of Asians. There is a racial hierarchy of acceptable achievement proclaimed an official government body. Not since the days of segregation has a state officially proclaimed such a pernicious racial doctrine. Predictably and justifiably, the insult is being taken for what it is: "To expect less from one demographic and more from another is just a little off-base," Juan Lopez, magnet coordinator at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Riviera Beach, told the Palm Beach Post. JFK Middle has a black student population of about 88 percent. "Our kids, although they come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, they still have the ability to learn," Lopez said. "To dumb down the expectations for one group, that seems a little unfair." It is more than a little unfair, it is a gross outrage, and it will harm the children, the schools, and society at large, if this sort of action spreads. The forces at work here are clear. On the one hand, we have liberal multicultural dogma that assert all cultures are intrinsically equal, and that there is no reason for one group to adopt the values and habits of another group which achieves at higher levels. If too many blacks cannot pass a firefighters test, then that test itself must be racist. On the other hand, we have the bureaucratic necessity of measuring teachers' and students' performance. Teachers argue that they cannot be held responsible for correcting the problems that some children show up with in their classrooms, that students who come from chaotic home environments, who have never been exposed to books or who are unsupervised, cannot be brought up to minimal standards such as reading at or above grade level. Because teachers will be evaluated based on how many students meet the standards, the teachers see their careers on the line, if they happen to work at a school where many students come from dysfunctional home environments. Their self-interest demands they seek relief from being held accountable for solving a problem they believe they did not create and cannot overcome. So when a major liberal interest groups like teachers (and their unions) run up against the fallacious multicultural doctrine of cultural equivalency, self interest wins out. And the children lose. That is the leitmotif of public education for the last half century. Until public education is able to distinguish habits and values from ethnicity, and proclaim that certain values (which happen to be more widely embraced in certain ethnicities than others) lead to success, and ought to be emulated by all, and that failure to embrace values and habits of study leads to consequences more serious than social promotion to the next grade, this mess will continue its devolution into outright racism. Clear standards, uniformly applied, offer the only way for people who wish to overcome their parents' failures to better themselves. This means telling students that they must reject habits and attitudes that lead to failure. Even if they can point to some alleged "legacy of racism" as some justification for the attitudes and habits that do not serve them. Hat tip: Richard Baehr Read more: americanthinker.com