Posted on 12/14/2005 10:45:21 AM PST by shooter223
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Police officers had to be called Wednesday to a meeting of the state elections board after a student protest delayed a vote on whether to put a proposal that would ban some affirmative action programs in Michigan on the November 2006 ballot.
The police came to the Board of State Canvassers meeting after high school students from the Detroit area knocked over an empty table where witnesses give testimony. The table was knocked over as students chanted "They say Jim Crow, we say hell no!" and moving toward the front of the room when the board prepared to vote on the proposal.
No arrests were made early Wednesday afternoon and order was restored.
The board temporarily adjourned the meeting and hoped to resume its work at 2 p.m. EST.
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Do they realize how ignorant that comment is, considering the context? Then again, being igrnorant, they are likely blissfully so.
You DON'T fight racism with more racism. Violent animals knock over tables.
It will never make sense at all: demand equality for all and then demand that preference be given to a person based on skin color.
No matter how they spin it, it is completely wrong. As wrong at forcing blacks to sit in the back of a the bus.
Will what the voters say counts.
In Texas, some universities have disregarded the texas law that says schools can choose the top 10 percent from schools but that is it. They say the Sandra Day O'Conner supreme court precedent is what counts. Now they are going for full fledged affirmative action.
The supreme court only made affirmative worse. They said their couldn't be quotas but affirmative action can be one of the factors. But the universities now can use affirmative action as much as they want. Their are no limits to it.
Absolute disgrace.
About 250 high school students from the Detroit area attended Wednesday's meeting, brought in by The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary.
(stifles laughter) I wonder how many of these Detroit-area high school students can even spell the name of their "coalition."
"Coalition to Defend Official Racism" would be a lot simpler and more accurate.
Affirmative Action and Jim Crow are both examples of government programs that treat people differently based on their race.
Just another chapter in the Nixon legacy.
80% of the graduate school slots that are reserved for minorities are filled by foreign students.
Do you have a source for this? It would be helpful.
I heard it on the Michael Medved show, last year. I never forgot it.
Thanks!
Gee we all know what important work the CtDAAI&IRaFfEbAMN does. We should get behind them waaaay behind them.
Group was created by BAMN - By Any Means Necessary.
I thought that was just part of this ad-hoc coalition's name. In college, I remember various lofty-monickered groups instantly forming, getting their 15 min...er...seconds, and disappearing from the scene soon after. Now they're going after high school kids. Maybe I can write the next self-help bestseller: "How to Get Everything You've Ever Wanted In Life by Turning Over Tables and Chanting."
... and entitle the book..."And NOW I'm really mad, I'm going to huff and puff and blow your table away... " lol.
Nice! Even longer than my proposed title. That way, the kids will waste hours attempting to ask for it by name, while someone smarter sneaks in and takes their place in college!
I like the way you think! :)
I can't take all the credit: this comedy material writes itself!
A very telling quote was in the Detroit News article about the same subject. A 15-year old student who was at the protest said, it was "a great day. It made me feel good. It gives us a chance for a future."
With that kind of brainwashing going on to convince her that she actually did a good thing by breaking up that meeting, there will never be any hope for any of those kids.
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