It's been awhile since I've been here...no computer.
To this subject I have a little personal experience to share. First, I will state that I am NOT a biggot nor do I feel any one race is superior to another. I am a white American male. I applied to become a state trooper when I was younger trying to follow in my father's footsteps. I was told that I did not have the proper qualifications. I should go to college for another year and then re-apply. Well, this was after I had already gone to college for two years. Ok, so I asked what the minimum requirements were since my friend (who is a black male) had the same college time as I did yet he was accepted into the program.
Well, when all was revealed I was quite pi$$ed. It lays out like this:
White male-3yrs college
White female or black male-2yrs college
Black female or "other" male-1yr college
"other" female-HS diploma
Supposedly this has been changed a bit over the years and is not so wide a gap anymore. However, I think it's ridiculous that a "other" female can get the job with just a HS diploma when someone with a AAS diploma can't! To me this is racist and sexist.
Now, Bush once said, and I don't remember when, that the country is full of reverse discrimination. Basically we're catering to one race over the whites. Right? Well, that's just WRONG!!!! My kid had to be bussed to a school an hour away when we had a school less than 1/4 of a mile from our house. Why? Because there weren't enough black kids in the school near us. Why? Because there were very few black families in that neighborhood. DUH!!! There weren't very many white kids in the school my daughter went to. Why? Because it was located in a nearly exclusively black and hispanic neighborhood!! Gee...makes sense to me. Yet someone somewhere decides that they have to waste money to make the schools "equal" and then they claim that the whites are making the blacks slaves again by denying them an education. Well, if people would quit spending money on stupid stuff like bussing kids and hour away, maybe they would be able to afford better supplies/teachers/curriculums etc.
To add one more thing...when's the last time you heard of the NAAWP? Never? Cause it doesn't exist. National Association for the Advancement of White People. Hmm....sounds an awful lot like a white supremacy group doesn't it. Why doesn't the NAACP give you the same thoughts?
I'm betting Bush has similar feelings and that's why he doesn't want to speak at their hate rally....err I mean conference.
Mike
