Comments on: A rare post http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/09/20/a-rare-post/ I was syncing my Facebook status here for a while, but now I'm boycotting them over the FriendConnect fiasco... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:46:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: nstryker http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/09/20/a-rare-post/#comment-3230 nstryker Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:33:51 +0000 http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/09/20/a-rare-post/#comment-3230 in seventh grade i discovered that racism still exists, when i went to public school. the funny thing is, i don't blame the public school, i blame the christian one for white-washing the problem. i was taught that racism ended with the emancipation proclamation. they didn't even mention the civil rights movement! in seventh grade i discovered that racism still exists, when i went to public school. the funny thing is, i don’t blame the public school, i blame the christian one for white-washing the problem. i was taught that racism ended with the emancipation proclamation. they didn’t even mention the civil rights movement!

]]> By: JB http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/09/20/a-rare-post/#comment-3229 JB Wed, 21 Sep 2005 04:16:26 +0000 http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/09/20/a-rare-post/#comment-3229 Ya, I got that feeling a bit too, but I'm trying not to be too cynical about this. If you read the next few sentences, he definitely wants to take a traditional Regan-esque approach to the problem, but even though I disagree on the solution (and maybe even, as you point out, the extent of the acknowledgment - framing it in "history" without mentioning the present and continuing discrimination), I still think it's a net positive step. Ya, I got that feeling a bit too, but I’m trying not to be too cynical about this.

If you read the next few sentences, he definitely wants to take a traditional Regan-esque approach to the problem, but even though I disagree on the solution (and maybe even, as you point out, the extent of the acknowledgment - framing it in “history” without mentioning the present and continuing discrimination), I still think it’s a net positive step.

]]> By: michel http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/09/20/a-rare-post/#comment-3228 michel Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:30:28 +0000 http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/09/20/a-rare-post/#comment-3228 I was just reading on This Modern World an interesting response to this. It feels a contrived (adversarial for the sake of it) but it's still worth looking at. Here's an excerpt: "The poverty of African Americans, they believe, is part of an ugly historical legacy that, little by little, we're extricating ourselves from (or, in a less noble frame, that "they" will extricate themselves from with a little hard work and responsibility). In his speech last night, Bush played on that opening, talking about "the history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America," but not about current racism. In Bush's formula, we are trying to overcome the effects of historical racism. Current racism either doesn't exist or doesn't matter." http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2005_09_11.html#002447 I was just reading on This Modern World an interesting response to this. It feels a contrived (adversarial for the sake of it) but it’s still worth looking at. Here’s an excerpt:
“The poverty of African Americans, they believe, is part of an ugly historical legacy that, little by little, we’re extricating ourselves from (or, in a less noble frame, that “they” will extricate themselves from with a little hard work and responsibility). In his speech last night, Bush played on that opening, talking about “the history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America,” but not about current racism. In Bush’s formula, we are trying to overcome the effects of historical racism. Current racism either doesn’t exist or doesn’t matter.”

http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2005_09_11.html#002447

]]> By: nstryker http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/09/20/a-rare-post/#comment-3227 nstryker Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:28:39 +0000 http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/09/20/a-rare-post/#comment-3227 wow! wow!

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