THE RACE MONGERS ARE IN HIGH GEAR May 2 2009
ALBANY — Gov. Paterson, who raised state taxes by $8 billion last month, just cost state taxpayers $300,000 more. The state has secretly settled an embarrassing federal racial-discrimination lawsuit, The Post has learned. The suit accused Paterson, back when he was Senate minority leader in 2003, of firing a white Senate photographer in order to replace him with an African-American. The lawsuit had been scheduled to go to trial in federal court Monday in Syracuse, with Paterson, the state’s first black governor, as a key witness. The case was settled earlier in the week, although a few glitches delayed the final deal until yesterday, legislative sources said. LINK
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if this story was reversed there would be hell to pay. How is it that this incompetent racist isn’t being impeached? Oh yeah that’s right. He’s a black democrat. I forgot that for a second. See in America only white republicans are capable of evils such as racism. Or so we have been taught.
Can you imagine if the media found out a white anyone fired a minority so they could replace them with a white person? Imagine the reaction of a Bill Mahr or Jeanine Garafalo. Frankly I don’t know anyone dumb enough to do this. Yet lo and behold the GOVERNOR of New York did it. Not only did he do it, he was apparently ENCOURAGED to do it by a number of equally malignant legislators. Now the taxpayers of the Empire State are on the hook for another 300 large. As if New York didn’t have enough financial problems already. Ah hell what’s three hundred K of taxpayers money anyway? The funny (actually twisted) thing about this story is Patterson saying he can’t see well enough to know what color the photographer in question actually is. So how could he tell if he was good photographer or not? Honestly you can’t make this stuff up.
I point this story out because the election of Barack Obama (our first black president) has brought the issue of race to the forefront. Attorney General Eric Holder thinks Americans are cowards for not talking about race. Well Mr. Attorney General maybe there is a pretty good reason for that reluctance. It’s what I call the “Miss California” effect that makes this discussion next to impossible.
By now we all know the story of Carrie Prejean, Miss California. While competing in the Miss USA pageant gay judge Perez Hilton posed a question to her inquiring as to her feelings on gay marriage. Miss Prejean in the answer heard round the world, respectfully replied:
“We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite. And you know what, I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised.”
For that honest and straightforward opinion she has been verbally attacked, ridiculed, vilified and had vile, disgusting things said about her. All by people who push “tolerance” with all the fire of a revivalist preacher. So after seeing how the left has set out to destroy this young beauty queen why would anyone in their right mind engage in a discussion about race with them, ESPECIALLY if there is a chance you could suffer personally for it? Most people simply don’t want to go through the aggravation Carrie Prejean has had to put up with. Remember how Catholic Churches in California were invaded and services were disrupted by gay activists after the Proposition 8 loss? This is what the left considers constructive dialogue. Protest, disruption, demonization, outright violations of your rights.
The left has demonstrated time and again that anyone who questions their bedrock positions on issues like abortion, the environment, gay marriage or minority hiring for example is not to be engaged in intellectual dialogue. They are to be personally destroyed and their thinking and writings purged. We see this all the time on college campuses where the left dominates the ranks of academics. Any student who dares show resistance to the ideology of the likes of a Ward Churchill is in for a rough ride. Dissent, among other things, is something the left does not tolerate. Need more evidence? How about this from our brain trust in the Philly school district:
Those officials also are embracing a series of other initiatives designed to stop the decline in the numbers of black teachers, which has become more rapid and perplexing in recent years.
Of the 984 newly hired district teachers this academic year, just 17.2 percent were African-American, while 73 percent were white, according to data provided to the Daily News by the district’s Office of Talent and Development.
Meanwhile, student numbers are almost the reverse – 62.4 percent are African-American, 13.3 percent are white.
“It is very difficult for African-American men to envision what their future can look like if the person who stands in front of them throughout their whole [educational] career does not look like them,” said Estelle Matthews, chief of the Office of Talent and Development.
“What I’m saying is, it has to be diverse. Students need those role models, someone they can relate to and connect with on so many different levels.”
That plan, dubbed “Imagine 2014″ and released online Monday night, is scheduled to be discussed at today’s commission meeting and adopted next Wednesday. It calls for raising the percentage of minority teachers from 33.8 percent to 51 percent by 2014.
Teachers who are of the same race as their students, Archie said, bring something special to the classroom. “There’s an affinity that’s developed early on,” he said. “You don’t have to strive to develop that affinity when you’re of the same race, culture. You understand the differences and nuances of what may be impacting their ability to learn, if you’re from the same race.” LINK
Now this is just stunning. Here we have professional educators from the Philadelphia School District, charged with the education of thousands of children espousing views that could have just as easily been expressed by “racist” whites fifty years ago in Memphis or Mississippi. Can you imagine? These statements are made in the public forum with impunity and go unchallenged by the media. I’d like to ask Mr. Archie if his philosophy about teachers needing to be the same color as their students goes for white students as well? Or can only black teachers teach black children, Asian teachers teach Asian children and Hispanic teachers teach Hispanic children? Remember a few years ago when we were told that girls and boys shouldn’t be taught in the same classes since girls were too afraid to raise their hands to answer questions because of the aggressive boy sitting next to them? Anyone still buying that? If anything society today is doing everything possible to feminize and sensitize the masculinity out of our boys.
Why stop there? Why not make white firefighters only fight fires in white neighborhoods (is there even such a thing any more?) and black firefighters fight fires in black neighborhoods? Black cops- black neighborhoods, white cops white neighborhoods. Asian doctors, Asian patients. There is a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that may allow a city to throw out a promotional exam if it doesn’t achieve the desired racial results. Instead of the best and the brightest they want supervisors who “look” the part who cares if they can’t do the job or others are better? It reminds me of the old Brady Bunch episode where the record label only wanted Gregg because he fit the outfit. Johnny Bravo.
Call me old fashioned but I believe if your a kid in a poor neighborhood, with a bad home life, a life afflicted with all the chaos and turbulence of an urban battlefield and you are lucky enough to make it to school at all, and you find there a teacher who cares about you as a person, your education and success in life, I’ll bet that person’s color won’t mean a damn thing to you if they help keep you out of prison.
In Philly we don’t want good teachers, we want teachers who look the part. Johnny Bravo’s. While I think any time is a good time to work on race relations, I don’t think the David Patterson or Eric Holders of this world are up to the task.
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