St. Paul Teacher Accused Of Discriminating Against Black Students

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Yes, how could I forget. That's her go to pitch.

I also guarantee that Charles or one of the other mods will be summoned very shortly to remove these posts.

I feel oppressed.

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

I feel oppressed.

[Teddy B 17,252]

But do you have anything to subtract?

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

But do you have anything to subtract?

[rocks 494]

She has no clue what she meant.

You'll get some smarky answer like "go read what I wrote" or "can't you read" or "if you don't know, then I can't help you". And that will be surely followed by at least one of these

You mean you can't figure it out?

[Teddy B 17,252]

[rocks 494]

Whatever-my aunt who lives just outside Seattle lives next door to Sir Mix a Lot.

Yes, he's one of their entertainers. There really are very few black people there though, especially compared to the south.

[sandinista! 1,816]

Yes, he's one of their entertainers. There really are very few black people there though, especially compared to the south.

It's true. Portland is even whiter. No one knows exactly why that is though. I've read everything from racist laws 70, 80 years ago to Portland just not having the kind of industries that drew in people of color from the southern states looking for employment.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

If you understand history then you know who benefited from the slave trade in the USA.

Are there other aspects of slavery beyond the USA? Of course, but don't try to make out that the victims were somehow responsible for it. That's akin to Holocaust denial.

We're not talking about who benefitted and who did not.

In this case the "victims" were somewhat responsible for it.

It we let our own government and our neighbors sell our citizens would we not be somewhat responsible? Would thousands/millions of 'victims' not be responsible for not fighting back?

Let's be real here. We're all human and we all have a choice. The choices we make (together and apart) ultimately will define who we are as invidiuals and as a collective. Hell, the left preaches that each and every day about the environment, social issues, etc.

As far as your holocaust comment goes, do you not think the Jews (aka sheep for the slaughter) were not responsible for their own demise at all? Being ignorance of the powers that be? Cmon now... It's foolish to think that the Germans did everything all on their own. They had A LOT (MILLIONS) of willing victims who were ignorant of human nature.

[rocks 494]

It's true. Portland is even whiter. No one knows exactly why that is though. I've read everything from racist laws 70, 80 years ago to Portland just not having the kind of industries that drew in people of color from the southern states looking for employment.

I've never been to Oregon, but there are far more Native Americans and East/South Asians in WA, it is far more diverse than down here! Is Oregon similar? Most of the East Asians down here are Vietnamese, many of which are fishermen/shrimpers.

[sandinista! 1,816]

Portland's percentage of white non Hispanic people is like 74%. Seattle is about 68%. Theyre about the same in percentage of African Americans. Seattle slightly higher Asian population, Portland slightly higher Hispanic population. Outside of those areas, they're both really, really white. There are Native populations, though their numbers are small. There are several reservations in both states though.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

We're not talking about who benefitted and who did not.

In this case the "victims" were somewhat responsible for it.

It we let our own government and our neighbors sell our citizens would we not be somewhat responsible? Would thousands/millions of 'victims' not be responsible for not fighting back?

Let's be real here. We're all human and we all have a choice. The choices we make (together and apart) ultimately will define who we are as invidiuals and as a collective. Hell, the left preaches that each and every day about the environment, social issues, etc.

As far as your holocaust comment goes, do you not think the Jews (aka sheep for the slaughter) were not responsible for their own demise at all? Being ignorance of the powers that be? Cmon now... It's foolish to think that the Germans did everything all on their own. They had A LOT (MILLIONS) of willing victims who were ignorant of human nature.

I don't see what any of this has to do with what I wrote, which was a response to what you wrote in response to a post by Danno. The original comment I replied to implied that white americans were not responsible for slavery. That is untrue. Completely. White Americans absolutely do bear responsibility for the slave trade because whites at the time had the money and the power, that blacks did not.

That doesn't detract from where the slaves were rounded up from or by who. Nor does it suggest that slavery is an adequate argument to explain away or excuse contemporary social problems. All it provides is a context and the idea that all Americans did not start equal and that this has some implications for the present day.

As to the last bit - I get that you like to blow your trumpet that you know a bit of history. However, you are using that history to promote some very odious arguments. Yes, there is point of view (albeit a rather sensitive one) that many millions of people killed in the holocaust were indeed 'lambs to the slaughter' as you crudely put it in that they collaborated with their destroyers - most by inaction, some deliberately. That's doesn't mean that they somehow deserved what they got.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Those statistics do not mean this was true about the victims in the story. Nor does it mean that even if it's true, it's okay to be insulting and demeaning.

You are absolutely 100% Korrect sir. However someone said those things were hateful and not true. Actually not a stereotype if about 80% of the kids live in a 1 parent home etc etc. Would you buy lottery tickets that paid off 80% of the time. I would.

Here is one, If a mass murder or serial murder happens, almost guaranteed it's a white person.. Not racist just a fact.

If my car gets jacked in my home county it's about 85-90% chance a young black male with dreads and baggy pants did it. Not racist just a fact.

One of those facts you can talk about one you can't mention without fear of reprisal. Guess which one.

Almost all the violent crime in my home county is committed by young black males that wear baggy pants and have dreadlocks. However I am not supposed to treat them any different in regard to trust levels, than the local Mormon boys on bikes, or I am a racist... That is insane.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

I don't see what any of this has to do with what I wrote, which was a response to what you wrote in response to a post by Danno. The original comment I replied to implied that white americans were not responsible for slavery. That is untrue. Completely. White Americans absolutely do bear responsibility for the slave trade because whites at the time had the money and the power, that blacks did not.

That doesn't detract from where the slaves were rounded up from or by who. Nor does it suggest that slavery is an adequate argument to explain away or excuse contemporary social problems. All it provides is a context and the idea that all Americans did not start equal and that this has some implications for the present day.

As to the last bit - I get that you like to blow your trumpet that you know a bit of history. However, you are using that history to promote some very odious arguments. Yes, there is point of view (albeit a rather sensitive one) that many millions of people killed in the holocaust were indeed 'lambs to the slaughter' as you crudely put it in that they collaborated with their destroyers - most by inaction, some deliberately. That's doesn't mean that they somehow deserved what they got.

Have to agree with you somewhat. Slavery is dead on the shoulders of white folks. The fact a few waring tribes sold their fellow countrymen into slavery, really does not change things. Let me be clear I am talking about the slavery of the South in prior to the cival war, not the slavery that still exists today in some black majority countries.

P.S. Also for those that did not grow up in the South. Black people did not really gain freedoom in the South until around 1985 or so.

[Danno 1,228]

I don't see what any of this has to do with what I wrote, which was a response to what you wrote in response to a post by Danno. The original comment I replied to implied that white americans were not responsible for slavery. That is untrue. Completely. White Americans absolutely do bear responsibility for the slave trade because whites at the time had the money and the power, that blacks did not.

If you are capable of seeing that many blacks do well and don't fit the pattern of many other black... and therefore you decline to speak of blacks as one large group why do you hold the multitude of whites who never owned slaves as guilty for slavery?

Q: Wicht countries throughout the world did not have slaves at this same time?

Slavery was the norm every where.

IN fact how many non-white countries abolished slavery before we did?