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Here’s a few historical realities for you. The vast majority of blacks brought to this continent for use as slaves were bought from other blacks. Their future of being a slave was already sealed BEFORE the white man laid eyes on them. They were destined to be slaves on either new world plantations or in African villages. Which do you think had a greater life expectancy?

If I remember correctly, there weren’t any slaves brought onto what is now the United States since before 1750. I say onto this continent because this COUNTRY didn’t exist until the late 1780s. More than a generation after the last slave had been brought across from Africa.

While Slavery and Racism is bad, claiming that it is the cause of all of the problems in the world is hogwash. To claim that the world would be better off without the spread of white European culture is likewise hogwash. There are three cultures in this world that have prospered and produced wealth for those who have accepted and become part of them. Those are the Anglo/Germanic cultures, the Oriental cultures, and the Eastern European cultures. While many other cultures have existed that have produced great wealth, they have not survived. Many african cultures still live in mud huts. More or less all third world countries are run by corrupt regimes. Yet, other than the communist countries, those countries that adhere to the three groups of cultures listed are generally considered successful with limited corruption and wide spread opportunity.

If free capitalist white/European and Asian cultures are thriving, how is it that they are responsible for the lack of success of the other cultures? Do the Japanese demand that the Masai continue living in mud huts as they have for thousands of years? Do the whites in Zimbabwe and South Africa insist that the black governments that confiscate the plantations that have been in their families for generations run them so ineptly and corruptly as to cause production to virtually cease to exist? Do the Brits demand that an inordinate number of Indians continue to live in squalor despite being free of British rule for over 40 years?

In this country, there isn’t a single slave still alive, so how does the actions of the plantation owners have any impact today? The only impact that it can have is on the psyche of the descendents of those who were slaves. Justice Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell,Former AG Gonzalez and Condolezza Rice are four wonderful examples of what someone can achieve despite having less than ideal circumstances growing up. Perhaps if they were idolized and looked upon with the respect that they have earned instead of the current crop of street thug rappers and pro athletes, the minority populations in this country would be better off.

Perhaps a better approach would be to stop looking outward at the distant past, and begin looking inward to the immediate future. Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Maybe instead of teaching that all whites are bad, they should teach that some people are bad. Teach the students that success isn’t as dependent on skin color as it is the willingness of the individual to exert energy to attain it. Perhaps they need to teach students what the following sentence from Dr. Martin Luther King means. “I have a dream, to one day live in a country where my four little children will be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Maybe they should be teaching everyone that actions have consequences. That character matters. That people will only judge you by the color of your skin when you act like the stereotypes that give that skin color a bad reputation. Basically, if you’re going to act and dress like a drug dealing gang banger, expect to be treated like one. Does anyone here really think that Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods would have problems going nearly anywhere in this country, while some of the current crop of ne’er do well players might run into some difficulties? If you were a cabbie, who would you want to pick up on a dark street corner, a well dressed man in a business suit, or someone dressed like a street thug covered with tattoos? One might be a low level corporate flunkie, and the other a multimillionaire pro athlete, but that’s not what the odds are. At one point in time, every school boy in this country was expected to attend school in a shirt and tie. Discipline wasn’t a problem. The kids KNEW what kind of behavior was expected of them, and knew there would be consequences if they failed to uphold that standard. Perhaps morality and character needs to be reintroduced to the curriculum from an early age. I’m betting that that will solve a LOT of our problems. Problems that this indoctrination will not.

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Educating college kids about the realities of the world they live in is a big part of the reason why they’re there.

Issues like race, gender, social class, religion are exactly the things that they want to learn about.

From the looks of it, it seems like the college is trying to help create an environment that allows this to happen more freely and openly.

So systematic indoctrination that discourages free thinking is okay with you, as long as it is something you approve of?

Interesting…

I can’t help thinking, though, that the real culprits here are the alumni who let these horrors go on, often in buildings that have their names on them; and the damn fool parents who beggar themselves to send their kids off to these fascistic institutions.

You are more than capable of writing a persuasive letter, I’ve seen you in action. Just do it!

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