Looks like they’ve identified something to fight one component of Alzheimer’s Cool!

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LaShawn Barber tackles the issue of affirmative action, which she facetiously refers to as “good” discrimination. Her comments on the habit of liberals to abuse the policy of diversity is right on the money:
Diversity, a word white liber…

LSB: Why can’t people understand that it is WRONG to give people government benefits because they are BLACK while discriminating against people who are white? Giving people a break is NOT what this is about. It is about institutionalized SKIN COLOR PREFERENCES for black people. But you think this has something to do with Christ and helping people in need? Good grief. Why did I blog today? Why couldn’t I take a day off like a normal blogger…

1) Because there are only so many seats at UM law school, they have to be allocated among equally qualified somehow. (2) You can’t take the day off because you’re not a normal blogger — you’re a great blogger, which is why you have lots of readers.

Oh, of course that’s what I was doing! Boy, did you nail me!

Indy, did you ever notice that the South lagged long before AA. There is no question –among those who read census data, anyway — that the Southern economy began to improve when tax subsidized jobs were directed there by the New Deal and the WW2 effort.

The gospels of Luke and Matthew are unbiblical? Maybe that’s what you were taught in your liberal circles, but us fundies try not to skip over the bible passages that don’t fit our politics. While LSB may be correct that it’s inappropriate for government to codify preference in resource allocation by skin color, I may be correct to say that it’s appropriate to help someone who may be at a disadvantage because his parents lacked the ability or motivation to push them. I do know that when I returned from Viet Nam I was hired, after months of rejections in part because of a lack of social skills, by a guy who was also a vet. In other words, I got points from him for being a fellow vet. No doubt many of you disapprove of that, but I appreciate it even to this day. And when I was in a position to hire and promote people, I realized that ability and potential are not purely functions of college class ranking or social talents.

Now, will someone help Renee with her request?

OK, I’ve been writing that Ward Connerly has taken advantage of affirmative action programs. I have no problem with people taking advantage of such programs. I’ve come to understand affirmative action programs, in government contracts, as being pure …

Somehow I get the feeling that the adage “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” doesn’t apply here. I wonder why??? /sarcasm

“If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten.”

Just which “ebonics” speaking trust officer do you expect me to invest my savings with?

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“Excuse me, doctor, how many of what when?”

UGH!!!!

What’s telling is that the years 1731 – 1950 overwhelms the remaining years by 201 to 13 events but whaddya expect for a website that considers Cornell West & Michael Eric Dyson to be ‘heroes’?
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http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/category/1/Education

I told her to go to the university with her head high and to make it her goal to finish in the top 10% in all her endeavors.

I will never forget her dread that her “skin” was her entre.

We are still in regular contact after 25 years and she has “Dr.” in front of her name and is a highly repected professor at the university she attended.

Why the heck did she have to go there with the Affirmative Action baggage?

Believe me, she has been equally tough on the achievement of all of her students, without regard to their claims for special consideration. She has also been recognized several times by her students as an outstanding professor.

We had supper not long ago and I told her that the one who needed Affirmative Action should pay the bill. She laughed and said: “We’ll split it, if you will let me leave the tip.”

Last year, several parents got together to complain after seventy percent of one first grade classroom failed a spelling quiz. The students spelled the word “they” as “day.” It’s not hard to figure out why. The whole problem with unqualified teachers was being raised to the fore in our area. The complaint made it as far as the superintendents office, but the NAACP got involved and threatened a lawsuit on behalf of the black teachers. They claimed that black students had a right to be taught in their “authentic language.” AUTHENTIC LANGUAGE…Agggg! The whole thing came to a quiet and quick end and those same teachers are in the classroom talking about “scrawberries” and “danksgiving.”

In spite of their best efforts, research continues to trickle in exposing their bigotry of low expectations. I truly hope that with the next election cycle or two, we will say enough is enough and take back local control of our education systems.

Anyone who comes out touting that it takes a village (gubmint) to raise a child, we need to send them packing!!!

Check this out:
““Communities fix schools,” David Mathews said, “Not politicians.” Addressing the Stockton Five Arts Club in January of 2000 on the occasion of their 75th anniversary, he added, “In modern times citizens are likely to abandon involvement in schools once their own children are grown…and to feel little or no responsibility for their continued improvement.” The Bay Minette Public Library’s Alabama Athenaeum was co-sponsor for the event and as Director of Library Services, I attended. The more he talked, the more he grabbed my attention.

“There are no easy answers,” said David Mathews, a Grove Hill native who serve in the Ford Administration as Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare,. “Trying to make the schools yours is absolutely essential. Not trying, giving up, is a guarantee of failure.”
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Conventional wisdom says that the majority of Americans are basically apathetic about government. One popular textbook insists that “the American masses do not lead, they follow.” A 1991 study of how people feel about politics — and why they feel as they do — showed that a great many Americans are not apathetic at all; they are angry. The study went beneath the surface of the usual complaints about government and politicians to uncover strong feelings of powerlessness and exclusion, coupled with an untapped sense of civic duty. The people who participated in the study had a clear sense of their civic responsibilities. They cared so deeply that their frustration ran to cynicism — a cynicism they worried would infect their children. These Americans felt they had been displaced by a professional political class of powerful lobbyists, incumbent politicians, slick campaign managers, and an elite media. They saw the system as one in which votes no longer made any difference because money ruled.”

More at
http://www.southernscribe.com/zine/authors/Mathews_David.htm