Subj : Democracy Explained to Kids
To   : LEE LOFASO
From : BOB KLAHN
Date : Tue Sep 10 2013 20:32:02


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 LL>>> Republican Party.  Even Michael Steel admitted the GOP goofed.

BM>>Agreed.... which only enhances their commitment to a segregated
BM>>America (My reference here is poor [black & white] vs. the affluent.)

 LL> Not all blacks are poor.  Not all whites are rich.
 LL> However, an economic argument can be made, and strongly
 LL> supported.  Bob Dole, as a candidate for president, tried
 LL> to make that argument in reference to affirmative action,
 LL> and actually had Bill Clinton on the defensive (and on the

 The point of affirmative action is to insure success is
 distributed regardless of race. Only those who oppose AA must
 believe there is no racial compenent to poverty.

 LL> ropes).  Dole's mistake was not having a viable plan of his
 LL> own to replace affirmative action. Clinton managed to get
 LL> up off the canvas, making a comeback by suggesting
 LL> affirmative action needed to be "fixed" rather than
 LL> "scrapped" - thus winning his bid for a second term.

 Which is true. We need affirmative action for all the poor in
 America.

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 LL> Black folks are more discriminatory of their own than any
 LL> other race. There are dark-skinned blacks, light-skinned
 LL> blacks, blacks who pass for white ...

 When you are reduced to survival level your competitors are not
 those well off, but those like you scrambling to survive.

 When I was young they could tell us, if we succeeded in school
 we would have jobs. Now they tell kids, if they succeed in
 school it's less likely they will be the ones without jobs,
 someone else will be. Not much of a guarantee.

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BM>>LOL.... irony as it's best... vote for the man who doesn't give a
BM>>rat's ass about you.

 LL> You have to remember - we boil our crawfish LIVE.  :)

 Hmmm... that seems a bit... disturbing...

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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