Quote Of The Day

10 Responses to “Quote Of The Day”

1. Jon writes
   April 29th, 2008 2:52 pm

   “as if”?

2. Sean Braisted writes
   April 29th, 2008 2:58 pm

   The main thing Conservatives like him are guilty of is assuming that all those who aren’t hired for jobs, or admitted into schools, were done so because they were inferior, and refusing to engage in the possibility that someone doing the hiring or admitting perhaps is skewed towards a person of their own race or ethnicity.

3. John Norris Brown writes
   April 29th, 2008 3:49 pm

   That quote might be just a little out of context, maybe?

4. Glen Dean writes
   April 29th, 2008 4:42 pm

   Here is the rest of the paragraph and the next paragraph.

   We treat them as if they are just as capable as anybody else. We treat them as if they have the ability to learn and prosper just like anybody else. Modern liberalism is opposed to this, because in order to survive, there must be victims, there must be a downtrodden group that is easily identifiable.

   I disagree with people like Reverend Wright because I have the audacity to believe that black children can accomplish just as much as white children. I have the audacity to believe that they are equal. Obviously Reverend Wright disagrees with me, and so do most white elitist, guilt ridden, liberals. Otherwise, how could they justify their bigotry of low expectations.

   Nice try Klanheider.

5. Ryan Turbeville writes
   April 29th, 2008 4:56 pm

   What about the white person who is just as capable as the black person or more capable that grew up with the same socio-economic situation and doesn’t get the scholarship or the job offer because they are not a minority?

6. Sean Braisted writes
   April 29th, 2008 5:01 pm

   Ryan,

   Thems the breaks.

7. Martin Kennedy writes
   April 29th, 2008 9:56 pm

   Thems the breaks? In one approach Sean the state is willing to tolerate some irrational discrimination and in the other the state endorses discrimination. I do appreciate your candor.

8. Sean Braisted writes
   April 29th, 2008 10:54 pm

   Martin,

   I appreciate my own candor sometimes too

   Look, are there going to be a handful of special circumstances where two equally disadvantaged people, one white and one black, are competing for the same position but the black guy gets it? I’m sure, but that doesn’t mean you throw the baby out with the bath water.

   Ensuring equality in socio-economic status, to see that schools don’t become segregated between the haves and the have nots, is a good thing in my opinion.

9. Ryan Turbeville writes
   April 29th, 2008 11:50 pm

   I would agree that providing equal opportunity through aid that is based on socio-economic status is not that bad of idea. That is not what happens though. The “handful” of special circumstances is higher than you think. There are just as many poor white people as black. The majority of my friends are from the Nations in West Nashville and my white friends are not provided the same assistance as my black friends. I have a white friend that scored perfect scores in his testing to join the fire department, which he desperately needed for economic reasons, but was passed over because of his color. Government sponsored discrimination will never help end racism, it is a social problem that will have to be solved by society.

10. Sean Braisted writes
    April 30th, 2008 10:21 am

    Ryan,

    Than your friend has an excellent case and he should seek the advice of a lawyer; however, I’m reluctant to buy into the anecdotal claims of people, as I wonder how they “know” they were passed over because of race.