Posted on 06/19/2013 3:20:54 PM PDT by Nachum
Likening religious schools to segregation--a racist system that forced blacks to attend different schools and use different facilities than whites in the American South--President Barack Obama told a town hall meeting for youth in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Monday that there should not be Catholic and Protestant schools because such schools cause division. "Because issues like segregated schools and housing, lack of jobs and opportunity--symbols of history that are a source of pride for some and pain for others--these are not tangential to peace; theyre essential to it,"
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You Irelandian peoples are racist!
He is so, so ignorant!
Which begs the question of why O considers Mosques so sacred?
Did he just forget to include the muslims by accident?
Wow...Is he trying to start a riot??
I can’t stand it.
But we should have many madrasas, right?
No doubt Georgetown will extend him an immediate invitation to be their next commencement speaker.
Whatever happened to diversity? It’s divisive now?
This guy should not be allowed outside the US for the rest of his term. I am so embarrassed by this and the German folly.
If liberals have their schools and conservatives have theirs...
If secular humanist hedonists have their schools and religious believers have theirs...
Now, now...cut the obongo some slack. He speaks from experience. He was educated in a madrassa and nobody hates Christians as much as he does. The scuzzlims taught him to hate, and to polish the nobs of other men.
Right. Worship the State.
in other words.. no one is to be allowed a decent education! everyone must be brought down to the lowest common denominator of his children and the ones like Trayvon that look like him.
Lutheran Ping!
Be rooted in Christ!
Isn’t the Sidwell Friends School a Quaker institution? Indeed, Malia and Sasha are segregated.
I’m sure our allies love being lectured by this tool.
Not just Ireland. He just said US Catholics who send their kids to Catholic schools are bigots. I guess I am too. I’m Protestant but some of my kids went to Catholic schools. They give a great education at about half the expenditure per pupil as the public schools.
And what about islamic schools, mister president?
You are right. 0bama is ignorant of the racial divide in Northern Ireland. The difference is more than Catholic versus Protestant. They have different languages, different sports, different customs. It goes back to the days of Cromwell. To 0bama those white people all look alike.
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