1) They actually appreciated Bush.
Posted on 02/27/2009 11:43:46 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
So here I was - taking my daughter to school this morning (She is a high school sophomore) and she was telling me of a discussion she and the other kids were having about Black History Month.
One kid suggested that - to be fair - there should be a White History Month. He was quickly chastised; "Whites don't deserve a special history month due to the racial prejudices they've committed over the years". My daughter related some of the "Rosa Parks" types of incidents as evidence of why there should be no White History Month.
It was early. I was driving and had not yet had my first cup of coffee. And so I was speechless.
Freepers… What would YOU have said?
You described about 20 to 25 percent of the students in my school. There are more good kids out there than many suspect. There are some major turds as I see you are aware. We have a population though, where I would estimate that 90% are “churched”.
How about a white history month strictly because it was a white-european-American ideal to end slavery and free all people.
Don’t black folks still own slaves in Africa?
I picked cotton in the HOT Texas sun for many summers. Do I get special recognition?
This is blatantly untrue. However poor most Blacks may be, thanks to their "friends" in academia and the media they wield a terrifying amount of power.
In one speech, one man (Jesse Jackson) banished the term "Black" and replaced it with "African-American." Apparently any Black person in the nation, however poor, has the power to ban the "f-word" at any time but choose not to because the "f-word" is a weapon of the "oppressed." Furthermore, any Black person in America (with the possible exception of that famous "Uncle Tom" Clarence Thomas) could walk out into a deserted street and scream, and the national media would be there in five minutes. Furthermore, this Black person could make up any story out of whole cloth and accuse an innocent white person of something and that white person would be guilty automatically, not because he is literally guilty (which isn't important) but because the Hegelian philosophy demands that the counterrevolutionary "antithesis" is always guilty and the revolutionary "thesis" is always wronged. Personally, I'm surprised that the entire prison system hasn't been emptied and the prison population reconstituted on the basis of statistical population.
Blacks may be poor as dirt, but right now they are the most powerful segment of the entire population.
I realize I sound very bitter on this thread, and for that I apologize. I'm an old Civil War Unionist/Republican from the Upper South and I used to look up to and admire Black Americans so much. Unfortunately, people have a tendency to let you down, and when I am let down I tend to be somewhat bitter.
Your definition leaves Obama out!
I would say I am sorry, but I am not, so I won’t.
America Love It, Live It, or Leave It.
“Nobody deserves a special month. Just teach history.”
Exactly, only the insecure need a ‘highlight’ month.
Heaven forbid they replace Oprah with George Washington in history books!
The problem with the leftist world view is the fact that they view people through members-of-a-group tinted glasses instead of viewing them and their merits and demerits on an individual basis. Leftists are collectivists,not individualists.
Feb. was originally American History Month because of the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln. Black History Month began as Negro History Week, one week in Feb. to remember the contributions of Blacks to American history.
Now American History Month is as extinct as Washington's Birthday, replaced by the new nationalism of the "oppressed."
I think we all would deserve a special month if we were forced to smell that guy’s armpits.
I picked cotton in the HOT Texas sun for many summers. Do I get special recognition?”
You picked cotton and I picked strawberries.
Guess we need a special category for those kids of jobs.
But—the guy who owned the strawberry farm did NOT OWN me.
And continued with, "You are never going to set foot in that indoctrination center again. From this day forward, I'm going to teach you myself".
There are some major turds as I see you are aware.”
A couple of those major turds have been breaking into barns-garages-trucks-trailers out here in the rural area.
Supposedly, they finally got caught, but I am fearful they will get out on bail and get no serious time in the slammer for their transgressions.
IF they come here, it will end their crime life. Mr Remington does not stand for that crap.
Why do you conflate the English with "British" while allowing the Irish and Scots their own separate identities?
The English are a nation every bit as much as the Irish, Welsh, and Scots.
Yeah, O.K. the English, as well as the Cornish and the Manx.
O.K.?
Not worth losing your head to smell those armpits, unless you have some kind of death wish, olfactory fixation.
History is not about arm pits, although the Black History Monthers seem to try and make us think so.
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