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Words to live bySometimes I want to scream. We’re arguing about power. About consistency. About priorities. We’re trying to discuss the Big Issues, but we’re afraid to name them. We fall into the safe arguments that no one will ever win but that will surely fill the time allotted, ensuring that we can return to our classrooms, departments, and homes. . . If we’re actually going to talk about why kids need to eat in class, then we may have to break the silence surrounding the issues of poverty and inequity. We don’t really want to (So) kids stay hungry, continue to lack basic They learn to pour their energies into petty battles rather than real civic engagement. In this era of increasing political partisanship, isn’t it time for us to teach our students that looking deeply into the well of our own shortcomings is the way to solve them? How long will we maintain the charade of infallibility, our blameless collective personae? The greatest gift we can give our students, and ourselves, is the acknowledgment that things aren’t OK — and won’t be OK, even if we build a school in which no one wears a hat indoors, everyone has a pencil, and neither Snickers bars nor apple cores can be found outside the cafeteria. Subscribe Buttons                    | |
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I came upon this blog post while trackbacking from AAPP and I just had to comment.
As a black guy, suffice to say, I see the effects of Republican racist actions every god-damn-day. I could fill this blog with everything they have done and cause a buffer overrun. But, let's just focus with recent history.
You know there's something wrong with a party when they let David Duke be a part of it, AND compound it when he wins a primary and goes on to capture 40% of the vote in a governor's race (In the ever classic 1991 Louisiana race best known as Crook v Racist). But wait, there's more.
Back in 1998, in Jasper Texas, a Mr. Byrd (black man with an arm injury) was dragged to death by 3 white men, including one with white supremacist ties. They were convicted and 2 sentenced to death, but the governor at the time did not sign any hate crimes laws and in fact, opposed such laws. Guess who it was? George W. Bush. But wait, there's more!
Blacks are not the only target. A bigger target is represented by Arabs these days. Just yesterday, presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, who is making his bucks attacking illegals, now is on record (talk radio) as saying that he would "If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina," This he said he would do in response to a domestic nuclear attack. You don't have to be a military or political expert to know how wrongheaded that statement really is. Unfortunately, statements like this are really common in the Republican party's 2008 candidates.
"I would double Guantanamo" Mitt Romney.
Guiliani has a known racist and Confederate sympathizers in his South Carolina operation, ie. Arthur Ravenel Sr.
Ron Paul talked crap about black male residents of Washington DC, though on the plus side, that is about it for him.
Mike Huckabee is gung-ho for the Iraq War, including stating that opposition to the surge is dangerous. Well, what about all those dead Iraqis that got killed because of the surge?
Duncan Hunter supports the Minutemen project, a project which may not have overt racist components, you can best believe there are covert racists components and agendas present.
Fred Thompson supports the current policies of Free Trade and Globalization, whose effects are literally killing black and brown and Asian people all over the world and a leading cause of illegal immigration. Also a (crappy) Nixon crony.
I could go on and on, but I'm sleepy now.