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To: San Jacinto
..Black children who exhibit the values taught to Condi by her parents are ridiculed by their peers as "being too white."..

Only in some circles- many Black children still grow up with the values Condi did. Even some of us whose families were different politically did. Don't take a few anecdotes and apply them to the whole group.

16 posted on 05/22/2002 8:40:06 PM PDT by mafree
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To: mafree
Obviously, I did not say that all Black children are ridiculed by their peers when they strive to attain the virtues which create success in the society at large, but it is clear that far too many do receive negative feed back for simply showing academic promise. Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, among others, have pointed this out.

"Jesse Jackson ethics" seem to prevail. This boils down to "Get what you can from the government because it owes you. Don't bother to try and succeed through personal initiative, work and ability, because Ole' Whitey just gonna hold you down anyway."

Success stories like Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas (all Republicans, by the way) and untold numbers of others, are all the more impressive because of what they have overcome. It seems to me that residual Racism from a "White Power Structure" is less a problem today than the more insidious Jesse Jackson-type Racism that seeks to keep folks on the Federal Plantation to serve as a political power base for the crooks who run the Democrat Party-Civil Rights Leaders coalition.

I say more power to every single American who seeks success through working hard and playing fair. I say a pox on those who insist on relying on some sort of hyphenated name tag to try and get special status.

17 posted on 05/23/2002 8:25:23 AM PDT by San Jacinto
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