DavidWillard wrote:
Oh great, who will speak for them when they are rounded up. Some of the comments were menacing..
There were some jackbooted folks that made lists too. Right down to the street level roundup routes in England and other countries to be conquered.
Just post that they are exposed for what stupidity they espouse. Enough said. That way it eliminates false positives.
The opposite rambling and threatening might be considered a hate crime in a strict view of the first Amendment. (note the little f as it's shrinking in importance)
The fist Amendment does not recognize hate crimes. What you are looking for is Assault.
Of course picking on some random Righty and accusing them of racism to deflect attention from Mr. Obama's racist minister is not very nice. It is bound to draw ire from those so maligned. In fact it would seem that the tactic has been used against the Tea Party folks. That would be about 15 to 20% of voting age Americans. I don't see how that helps race relations.
In fact my mate expected this sort of thing to happen if Mr. Obama got elected. And lest you think she is some kind of racist - she dated black guys several of whom turned into good friends of mine.
And you know what is said about blacks who agree with the Tea Party? They are not black enough.
Now compare
Kenneth Gladney to the
head of the NAACP. And tell me who is black and who could pass for white?
And look what else I found
I am Kenneth Gladney or Come One, Come All! Rub a Picaninny's Head (aka a Black Conservative) for a Dollar!
Sweet. You can't be authentically black and support a conservative agenda.
That is really going to improve things.
So yeah. I guess false charges of racism are going to upset people.
My guess? America is done with the race industry.
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."-- Booker T Washington
So it is not new. What is new is that it is coming to an end.
Well I have come a long way since I marched on Springfield, Illinois in 1962 for an end to discrimination by government. I still feel the same. I'm against discrimination on account of race. Whether it be against whites, blacks, asians, or any other group.
Racial Preferences in College admissions
Putting preferences in terms of test scores, at private schools, blacks get an advantage, compared to whites, worth 310 SAT points (out of 1600), Hispanics an advantage of 130, and Asians a disadvantage of 140. At public schools, the authors present the difference in ACT points: blacks 3.8 (out of 36), Hispanics 0.3, Asians –3.4.
If we look at students who actually matriculate, blacks are far more likely than whites to come from the bottom 80 percent of their high-school classes (27 percent versus 12 percent), have high-school GPAs of B+ or below (32 versus 18 percent), and have SAT scores below 1000 (21 versus 2 percent).
The logical conclusion from this mountain of evidence is obvious: Top-of-the-line schools use severe racial preferences. This shouldn’t be all that shocking; although colleges usually keep quiet about the degree to which they prefer blacks and Hispanics over Asians and whites, anecdotes and numbers have been trickling out for years.
What ever happened to the color blind society I was promised?
But the question is: has it helped? No. Because people placed in educational situations they can't handle fail at much higher rates than those who match their ability to their college.
So how do colleges deal with that little problem so they don't look quite so bad? Well they bring in Caribbean blacks who can handle the load to stand in for American blacks. That is getting a little crazy if AA is supposed to make up for American slavery and Jim Crow.
BTW what do you have against people finding out who tows the party line? (and yeah I know that "toe the line" is more traditional - but in this case I think "tow the line" is more apt) It is not my fault this annoys some people. Greatly.
