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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (902317)	11/21/2015 7:01:26 AM
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Once inside, the group presented its outlandish demands in the form of a document titled “ A collective Response to Anti-blackness.” “UNC Chapel Hill is an unethical institution,” the protesters wrote. “From massive labor exploitation across campus to the athletic industrial complex, treating Black and Brown people as less than is essential to the everyday running of UNC. … “You include Black and Brown bodies in the institution, and mark them with the words ‘diversity,’ ‘inclusion,’ and ‘multiculturalism.’ You throw us on brochures and tout us in statistics. You do this to hid the way UNC would not function where it not for the mass displacement, exploitation, slow death, and genocide of Black and Brown people. We are not trying to integrate into a violent system, while others among our people are suffering both inside and outside the University.” “Our aspirations are untainted: free tuition via a University open to all, abolition of the police and prisons, free and collectivized housing and food, and more,” according to the document. It also closed with the warning: “Gone are the days where we ask for what is past due to us: we are here to take what is ours. “Tear it down, or we shut you down,” the document read. The list of demands, edited for brevity, include (our favorites in bold): *A mandatory class for everyone, including staff and administrators, about the “historical racial violence of this University and town …”* *The immediate firing of UNC President Margaret Spellings because she allegedly referenced “LGBTQIA+” lifestyles as “those lifestyles.”* Abolishment of all standardized testing and its use in college admissions. *Complete dismantling of “athletics industrial complex” and “exploitation of Black men,” effectively ending the men’s basketball and football programs* That “University cafeterias, gym memberships, libraries, and class registration be free to all residents of North Carolina regardless of admittance into the institution.” *Housing and bathrooms that are not segregated by gender.* Collectively-owned housing projects. Allowing bums to sleep in the school’s public places. *The abolishment of police, both on campus and off, and the implementation of “transformative justice practices.”* The elimination of all tuition and fees, as well as full financial aid for illegal immigrants. *A $25 an hour minimum wage for all Chapel Hill workers, and full benefits for full, part-time, and contracted employees, and similar wages for UNC administrators.* A $25 per hour salary, with benefits, for student athletes. Free parking and “Go Passes” for everyone. “Language justice for all workers,” which means “verbal instructions and communication should be made available in addition to written materials for all workers,” according to the document. *A mandate to hire convicted felons whenever possible.* “Equitable funding” for African American, female, and gender studies programs. Publishing graduation and dropout rates, as well as admissions data – “disaggregated” by gender, race and class – on UNC’s website. Investigating why black or other minority students leave UNC. *Unlimited free mental health counseling sessions* Divestment of the UNC Management Company from “private jails, prisons and detention centers; Israeli Apartheid; Coal.” Cancellation of UNC’s contract with Aramark, the food service provider, because the company is allegedly “deeply invested in the expansion of the prison industrial complex” that’s “criminalizing and caging working class Black people.” A ban on privatizing student stores. The cancellation of UNC’s contract with Nike and VF Corporation over “deeply exploitative and abusive track records toward workers.” *A mandate to hire black counselors.* *The removal of surveillance cameras on the campus’ “white supremacist monuments.”* Removal of the campus’ “Silent Sam” monument and all other “confederate monuments.” *Restricted space on campus for black students to meet.* A plaque denigrating William Saunders, a UNC alum and KKK member honored for his work on the university’s board of trustees. “Aggressive recruitment of black faculty and faculty of color.”

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (902317)	11/21/2015 7:03:18 AM
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2014, There were 500 #RACIST BLACK ON WHITE Murders 8 conservative-headlines

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (902317)	11/21/2015 2:08:30 PM
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Historian compares Reagan and Obama: Presidential Historian Sums Up Obama Fortunately, not all historians are ideologues devoted to twisting history into propaganda. Some future Americans will know how the country that should have been theirs was taken away from them before they got a chance to live in it. Presidential historian Craig Shirley compares Obama to Reagan: “Ronald Reagan will go down in history as a president who made the world safer and freer. Obama will go down in history as one of the worst, most divisive, most shallow, most foolish, most immature presidents. As an historian, I am hard pressed to think of a worse president than Obama,” [said] Mr. Shirley, who has written three books on the 40th president, most recently “Last Act,” which covers Reagan’s life after leaving the White House. ...... . - See more at: http://moonbattery.com/?p=65533#sthash.oaXDycv6.dpuf

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (902317)	11/21/2015 2:11:03 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575063

The communists killed most of them. You liberals always blame our enemies sins on the US. The SVN was very well equipped, a helluva lot better than the NVN with a helluva lot more troops....... NVN was backed by China and Russia, SVN was cut off by the US. We even embargoed fuel deliveries to SVN.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (902317)	11/21/2015 2:13:37 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575063

Boys Banned From Playing With Legos So As to Reduce Their Skills in the Name of Equality Are you going to refuse legos to your grandsons? And buy barbies for them instead? Rat would but fortunately his grandkids are being raised by right thinking Arkies. Legos introduce young boys to the joy of building things with their hands, and help them develop the skills this requires. Consequently a social engineer bans them: A kindergarten teacher in Bainbridge Island, Washington, has banned boys from playing with Legos as part of the fight for gender equality. The Bainbridge Island Review reports Captain Johnston Blakely Elementary School kindergarten teacher Karen Keller intentionally excludes boys from playing with Lego building blocks. Allegedly, this is in [an] attempt to help girls. That is how liberals help people — by holding down other people. When they manage to impose utopia, it will be like the grass on a well-manicured golf course, each blade cut down to the height of the shortest. As would be obvious in any civilization that has ever existed, boys are more drawn toward and more suited for building things. This is due to inherent biological differences, including differences in spatial skills. In order to remedy this disparity, Keller originally tried to entice girls to play with Legos by offering them in girly colors, pink and purple. When the girls were not interested in playing with the toys — but the boys were — Keller decided to ban boys from playing with the Legos entirely. She doesn’t tell the boys about the ban… Keller told the Bainbridge Island Review, “I always tell the boys, ‘You’re going to have a turn’ — and I’m like, ‘Yeah, when hell freezes over’ in my head. Maybe the boys are smarter than she thinks. They won’t learn to build things in her class, but they might learn than the authorities are hostile and do not want them to develop their natural aptitudes. Ironically, the Lego playing time is part of 40 minutes of “free choice” play. There is no information on Keller’s “free choice” page warning parents that boys will not be allowed to play with Legos. Free choice. George Orwell would be proud. No no no. Boys are supposed to play with Barbie dolls. - See more at: http://moonbattery.com/?p=65522#sthash.BTW8UMbF.dpuf SJW's aren't nice people and they don't mean well. They carry malice in their shriveled hearts.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (902317)	11/21/2015 2:14:58 PM
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In America's Little Syria, a divide on accepting refugees ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A few days ago, a pastor asked Syrian-born restaurant owner Marie Jarrah to donate food to a welcoming event for recently arrived Syrian refugees. Jarrah, who said she regularly helps people in need, declined. Like many of Allentown's establishment Syrians, she doesn't think it's a good idea to bring refugees to the city. She clung to that view even before last week's terrorist attacks in Paris. "Problems are going to happen," said Jarrah, co-owner of Damascus Restaurant in a heavily Syrian enclave. As debate intensifies nationally over the federal government's plan to accept an additional 10,000 refugees from war-ravaged Syria, a similar argument is taking place in Allentown — one with a sectarian twist. Pennsylvania's third-largest city is home to one of the nation's largest populations of Syrians. They are mostly Christian and, in no small number, support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad — a dynamic that's prompting some of them to oppose the resettlement of refugees, who are Muslim and say they fled violence perpetrated by the Assad regime. Aziz Wehbey, an Allentown auto dealer and president of the American Amarian Syrian Charity Society, worries some Syrian refugees might have taken part in the fighting in Syria's civil war and have "blood on their hands." "We need to know who we are welcoming in our society," said Wehbey, who immigrated to the United States a quarter-century ago and became a citizen. ........... wpxi.com