Posted on 03/16/2005 8:51:52 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters
Where did you get your information? Curious, not accusing.
"They don't know what it is like to open up your locker and see a KKK letter there. It's not the most comfortable feeling at all," said African-American student Kristen Minoh.
Maybe Kristen Minoh should do a research paper on the Klan..she would find out that the klan didn't just target blacks..it also targeted catholics as well.
NBC10 is very careful not to reproduce the Secretary's remarks in any of their on-line stories.
Nice to see the backlash of race-baiting even reported at all tho, times seem to be a-changin. Politicians who have ridden race-baiting politics into public office may start to see their tactics rejected, and it can't happen soon enough.
About the only racism going on anymore in America is that which is brought by immigrants and blacks against whites.
Yes, it's true!
Do you have a link to a better story with more info about the speech?? Neither article gave any specifics about what the secrectary said.
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Regina Thomas should learn some local history.
Cross the Delaware and you get the famous Anti-Catholic Kensington riots of 1844.
My grandfather has crosses burnt in his lawn during the 1920's for builing a Catholic Church in Sommers Point.
There is a long history of Anti-Catholic predudice in the area.
Local radio host Dom Giordano devoted the first hour of his show to the story last night, and many people who were there called in with details.
I like that! I also know a racist when I read one.
McCarthy went after people who were or had been Communists or "fellow travelers" who had supported Communist objectives without being party members...he went after people on the basis of things they had actually done or said. The new McCarthyism finds people guilty of racism merely because they were born white, or of sexism merely because they were born male.
Good for these students. They don't have to be called a racist by some troll.
This is what happens when you allow lay teachers and speakers into Catholic schools. I would have walked out as well.
Similarly, no one has the courage to quote her actual speech.
An interviewed student knows someone who knows someone black who found a crumpled KKK letter in her locker! Well, of course. What did you expect?
Some students will take any opportunity to ditch, even a classmate's funeral. In this case I think they're justified: would we have heard the story otherwise? Students and parents should dish all their school's PC dirt, early and often.
So where can I find a transcript of Regina Thomas's speech already?
My son goes there, he was part of the freshman class and sophmore class gathering that was in the auditorium to hear the speech.
They (the students) are really upset that they have not received an apology (DIRECTLY) for the incident.
It's made Drudge's headlines today as well.
The articles never tell us exactly what this woman said. It must have really been bad.
So, tell us the details.
Same time I applied at the Post Office.
I was told "minorities" HAD to be hired first, WITHOUT taking the Civil Service exams; and if any positions were then unfilled, I could compete via exam.
In fact, the minorities got extra preference if they were (or claimed to be) illiterate.
Same time my wife applied for a job, and was told they had to give hiring preference to minorities. Flat told her that she was not Hispanic, black, etc, then asked her if she belonged to any other minority. She told them, "Yes; short, blonde, college educated, white Irish Catholic female; they don't make very many smaller minorities!" Naturally, she was told that didn't count.
Same time it was called "racist" to complain about such racist policies.
There should be a common-sense test for political office.
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