| Black Students Take Over University; "Real Pain, Real Change" | |
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| mike in houston | Mar 6 2010, 05:02 PM Post #256 |
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Mau-Mauing at UCSD [Gilbert T. Sewall] The University of California at San Diego race protests continue. Weeks of shameless histrionics to extract university resources along racial lines have not ended, and tensions seem to be escalating. The affair began with a February 15 off-campus costume party called the Compton Cookout, an event meant to mock Black History Month. The invitation made mention of malt liquor and ghetto dress. It is still unknown who attended the party, and some doubt it even occurred. Exploiting the event, the Black Student Union issued an expansive set of race-based demands. Clips on You Tube show the protests, the mau-mauing (as author Tom Wolfe once labeled it). Chancellor Marye Anne Fox has repeatedly apologized and begged for mercy. She has expressed “solidarity” with the protesting students. BSU leaders have not been satisfied with her contrition and demand more. “They handed us over a bulls**t-a** document,” BSU leader Fnann Keflezighi said after the meeting to the UCSD Guardian, the student newspaper. “Basically, it said everything that we already knew, no concrete things on how they’re going to implement anything. They’re dumber than we thought they were — dumber than I thought they were.” Ms. Keflezighi, however inelegant her words, may be right. The administration has played into the hands of student race hustlers, and any legitimate outcries about the Compton Cookout have been lost in the psychodrama. Responding to student outcries, the administration has put up its own website. Chancellor Fox sounds very distressed. But she gives no impression of understanding the situation or being in control. “Racism is not going to happen in our community,” she declared on the website before the statement was ridiculed and replaced. “This implies that racism is an act rather than an attitude, and that human nature can be changed by fiat,” one knowledgeable UC observer had responded. Another had asked: “Do campus authorities even know what’s going on here?” A suspicious noose and Ku Klux Klan hood made out of a pillowcase have appeared from nowhere, fueling black students’ outrage. But after three weeks, the outrage looks calculated and cynical. If the undergraduate injustice collectors get their way, and if they are representative of America’s future black leadership, be prepared for more campus race tension in the future. — Gilbert T. Sewall is director of the American Textbook Council and president of the Center for Education Studies. http://phibetacons.nationalreview.com/ |
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| Foxlair45 | Mar 6 2010, 11:31 PM Post #257 |
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From Fox News web page tonight: MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama's Legislative Black Caucus on Saturday called on U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan to cancel a planned appearance at Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery. State Rep. Alvin Holmes said the school and its principal publicly opposed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Selma-Montgomery march in 1965. Holmes said it was "insulting" to King and civil rights protesters that President Barack Obama's top education aide was scheduled to appear at the school Monday. "If he doesn't cancel, we're going to picket," Holmes told The Associated Press. Sandra Abrevaya, a spokeswoman for Duncan, said the agency was not aware of the caucus' request and had no immediate comment. Duncan is scheduled to meet with teachers and students at the school and march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 45th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," the violent clash between civil rights protesters and state troopers in Selma. About 200 people marched to the Alabama Capitol on Saturday, in part to commemorate the anniversary. The marchers, joined by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, were also taking to the streets in support of electronic bingo jobs in Alabama, saying the debate was a voting rights issue and a matter of economic justice. Republican Gov. Bob Riley contends electronic bingo machines are illegal and has forced the closure of nearly all the state's more than 30 casinos. The fight has stirred old civil rights tensions in poor, black areas where officials argue the gambling halls provide needed jobs and tax dollars. |
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| Mason | Mar 6 2010, 11:57 PM Post #258 |
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. 1965? That was 45 years ago.
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| LTC8K6 | Mar 7 2010, 12:05 AM Post #259 |
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electronic bingo jobs in Alabama? MLK jr would have slapped you idiots for protesting about such... Edited by LTC8K6, Mar 7 2010, 12:05 AM.
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| comelately | Mar 7 2010, 12:05 AM Post #260 |
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Too bad they have forgotten what Senator Byrd had been up to back then!
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| abb | Mar 7 2010, 09:50 AM Post #261 |
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One of the favorite tactics of Organized Gambling is to buy various interest groups and use them as props for protest or lobbying. Ten years ago, Organized Gambling here in Louisiana got the local School for the Blind to do it for them. |
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| cks | Mar 7 2010, 10:11 AM Post #262 |
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Gambling has long been used in the US as a way of taking monies from people who can ill afford the expenditures in return for a dream that they can achieve instant wealth. Lotteries, casinos, etc. have become state sponsored mechanisms to defraud people of their income. Here in Ohio, voters recently caved in and voted for gambling on the premise that Michigan, Indiana, and Pennsylvania were robbing Ohioans by the fact that they had dens of iniquity and Ohio did not. Frankly, I would rather that they legalize prostitution - at least one can claim that he/she has received something for one's money other than a worthless lotto ticket. |
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| abb | Mar 7 2010, 10:12 AM Post #263 |
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Selling hope. That's all it is. |
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| Deleted User | Mar 7 2010, 11:55 AM Post #264 |
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When hope runs out, the rest of us pick up the tab. On second thought, I thought Obama was in charge of hope. |
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| Concerned | Mar 7 2010, 09:07 PM Post #265 |
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Bias Incidents Roil University of California http://newsmax.com/US/US-University-Bias-Incidents/2010/03/07/id/351873
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| Deleted User | Mar 7 2010, 09:57 PM Post #266 |
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""This is a reminder," he said, "this is a battle that's never won." In other words, unless and until we have no more of those evil white students attending our school, we will not have achieved diversity. |
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| sdsgo | Mar 7 2010, 10:59 PM Post #267 |
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train, 'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again. In the winter of '65, We were hungry, just barely alive. By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well, (Chorus) The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people were singin'. They went La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, Back with my wife in Tennessee, When one day she called to me, "Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!" Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good. Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest, But they should never have taken the very best. (Chorus) Like my father before me, I will work the land, Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand. He was just eighteen, proud and brave, But a Yankee laid him in his grave, I swear by the mud below my feet, You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat. You have to go back 145 years to understand. Robert E. Lee HS was a predominately white school in 1965. Today, it's 45 years older and looks it. And most of the students are not white. They left the public schools in droves. "If he doesn't cancel, we're going to picket ..." They said that about the Montgomery Mall a few years ago. The mall closed. A lot of people are looking forward to tomorrow's visit by the Secretary of Education as a way to move forward. Unfortunately, some people are just stuck in the mud. |
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