You know...VB.... You're almost there but a little off.
Almost like what? Like you?
Trust me, I'm NOTHING like you.
Malcolm was a better leader for blacks than was MLK. I know what he preached.
I disagree.
Both men were necessary because they both brought a different perspective to the same struggle. MLK preached the importance of using civility to achieve civil equality, whereas Malcolm X illustrated that sometimes you have to do more than just smile in someone's face and assimilate in order to get it. One leader couldn't survive without the other.
YAWN!!!
Stop right here... if I can make a response that doesn't use the word liberal or conservative, then so can you. Or can you? The bullshit has to stop somewhere.
...seem to repeat that same sentiment you stated about normal folk having more in common with the poor black guy next to them than they do they rich guy. I get where that comes from and you are to a large degree correct. However, your solutions bring you to gov't to fix it all for you.
Did I ever say that the government was there to fix everything for them? The answer is
no. Even if Government did everything in their power to make every city or town have the same quality of life, people would still have to work hard to get what they want. However, when some first graders have to travel 2 hours out of their way to get an education someone else could get after a five minute walk from their doorstep, the last thing YOU should be talking about is how someone wants government to fix everything. We can start by making sure our public school systems adhere to a set standard in education quality so that children get access to the same learning materials and curriculum. Then, there's an issue regarding neighborhood safety because why should one kid have to worry about getting mugged or shot when trying to go to school while the other doesn't?
And so forth, and so forth...
Confuscious say....the tiger more danger to the man than the gov't.
It's
Confucius, Einstein.
You still have time to grow out of your social anger and childish notions about gov't being here to help you in the most benign of motherly ways.
Seriously, is this the best that you can do?
This isn't anger coming from me. The truth is going to be raw and ugly sometimes. I'm so sorry if this dose of reality is difficult for you to handle.
btw...I grew up poor. State food, getting dressed next to a stove because the heat didn't work, rat infested triple deckah in a racially mixed neighborhood in Boston.
What part?
I was born in Dorchester, raised through childhood in Mattapan, spent my high school years in Roxbury right off the street that had the old EL and went to school in Braintree since the age of six. Did college in Salem while living in the Fenway before finally moving to New Jersey in '98 and eventually to New York City.
Don't bring that - I was poor - crap to me. I know it well. I know the stories of good, bad and regular people in the city. I know the stories of people who worked to get themselves out, people who failed and people who didn't try. It is the culmination of those experience and the history we all know that bring s me to my view points
You might know it, but you obviously didn't learn a thing from it.
You somehow found a way out, and forgot where you came from. I still have friends and family caught in the struggle. They STILL live there and work harder in one week than you could ever fathom in a month. Out of love for my people, I provide a voice for their concerns. Unlike you, I don't forget.
Gov't is good and bad. Business is good and bad. We need both. We need balance. Business would rape me. Gov't would rape me. Balance my friend.
That's your sentiments. Don't try to put that confusion on me, dude.
Social dynamics being what they are.....give me a magic potion that makes the world a peaceful, loving place, then give me 5 years and there will be strife, unjust treatment and war. Ignoring that is ignoring human nature.
There goes more of that ideological nonsense that you're now trying to twist into some kind of moral lob bomb in hopes that it has any kind of relevance. Nobody is looking for a magic wand or a potion to make everything better.
Now....craft policies that account for social dynamics, balance between gov't and business and you have a chance at a decent country.
Nice ideology. Too bad the politics you support try to do away with such policies. Or do you still think something like Affirmative Action isn't necessary even though the amount of women and minorities in good paying jobs is pale in comparison to other social demographics?
I would say the same to you, but I can already tell that you failed.
