Lily S.
Zrii For Life!
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I’m not even going to respond to your response on my Jena 6 comments, but there were thousands of people there not too long ago that felt the same way I did.

1) The local government does have a lot to do with the state of the two schools I chose to compare, but does that make it right. It wasn’t the local government that passed Brown vs. the Board of Education. Therefore, the federal government should have done more than passed a few laws and left it in the hands of the “local” government to fix, because as we see over 50 years later, it’s still un-finished business and schools are still unequal. While there are a great deal of African Americans in the local government, there is a good mixture of all races within it. So no, it has not been ” made of up of a black majority…and probably has been for the past 20 years.”

2) The area Jack Yates is in is actually in the heart of the medical center here in town. There are certain areas of the neighborhood that have people who are “single parents, high school drop-outs, non-college educated, receiving public assistance, unemployed, etc. ” but don’t all inner-city neighborhoods have their fair share of people like this? That doesn’t mean that their children don’t deserve the same chances as children’s who’s parents are “married, high school graduates, college educated, have never received public assistance and have jobs.” There are also a great deal of professionals (doctors, attorneys, entrepreneurs, educators, etc) that live in the neighborhood as well. There are homes that have been there since the early 1900′s that have been passed down from generation to generation. There are a few but not as many as you would think places where housing is accepted in the neighborhood. The school lays dead in between the University of Houston (my Alma Matter) which is a “melting pot” and Texas Southern University (a Historically Black College, and predominately African American). There are a number of elderly people who are as you would say, “single parents, high school drop-outs, non-college educated, receiving public assistance, unemployed”, but they worked all of their lives and own their little homes and not too long ago, the government tried to make them sale their homes so they could build parking lots for a park and ride to the nearby Reliant and Toyota Center.

You don’t want to comment on my silliness about interest rates and gas, well don’t… Just answer my question, what are you doing that I’m not where you can afford these outrageous prices? I just want to know what I’m doing wrong?

I have know problem with having my world views challenged. They are challenged everyday, on blogs like this, on the radio, and in the workplace. They have been challenged most of my like, I believe you are the one who is close minded and afraid of the challenge to change for the better. BTW: I read the article.

As I said before, I’m not some Angry black woman, nor am I looking for sympathy. I learned a long time ago that people like yourself will never see the “light” and would always be the same and there’s nothing I can do about it. Other than these high gas prices and interest rates life is not so difficult for me but it is for others in my community of all races. My parents taught me the long time ago that if I believe in God and apply myself at all times I don’t need anything from anyone so I’m not looking for yours or anyone else’s sympathy. I’m simply stating my point of view.

You are absolutely right I have been blessed to attain a college education, a full-time job sitting at a desk, I own my home, and be married with two children I don’t need sympathy from anyone/anything. I worked my butt off and earned all of the things mentioned above. But I am in need of being saved from the shape that George W. Bush has placed our country in and I have hope that it will happen. As I know, Senator Barack Obama is the best key I have to attain those things. Apparently, I’m talking to a someone with little or no faith.

We can sit here all day and call each other names, and argue about our opinions but it will not solve the injustices and problems of this nation.

Lets not forget the racist black hooker falsly accusing Duke Lacrosse players. The hooker got a free education from jesse jackson for her troubles. I’m sure the black organizations at the college have taken her in and justified the whole thing. Let me guess, she was called the N word as a child.

No, Dan, the sad thing is that people like Crystal are typical of the American public nowadays – ignorant, indocrinated fools.

Take your pick of her insipid “arguments” – the Jena 6, public school funding, gas prices???, interest rates??? – her “arguments” perfectly illustrate the dangerous place that Western Civilization currently finds itself in. By allowing Leftists to gain control over all the major mediums of information sharing and dispersal (ie. the education system, the news media, and the entertainment industry), the civilization that’s responsible for enlightening the world with Science, Reason, and Rationality has been reduced to a state of dumbed-down, adolescent, emotive silliness.

Her Jena 6 arguments are simply flat-out fabrications and misdirection. Want the real story? Enjoy:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/jena6 (and the Atlantic can hardly be considered “conservative”)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1024/p09s01-coop.html

Her public school arguments are also equally worthless, as I’ll wager you dollars-for-dimes that the real causes of the problems with the schools she’s complaining about lie at the feet of 1) the local government, which I’ll bet you anything is made of up of a black majority…and probably has been for the past 20 years, and 2) the attendees parents, in the form of higher percentages who are single parents, high school drop-outs, non-college educated, receiving public assistance, unemployed, etc. All of which mean lower tax revenues for their localties and higher percentages of what tax revenue there is going to fund other public assistance programs like housing assistance, food stamps, etc., thus short-changing their school systems.

I’m not even going to go into the silliness about gas prices and interest rates.

But will any of what I’ve stated above register with someone like Crystal? Of course not. Why? Because it doesn’t fit the victim narrative that’s been drilled into her througout here life; therefore, it must be discarded. I guarantee you she doesn’t even have the courage to read the two Jena 6 stories that I linked to. Why? Because people like her are deathly afraid of having their world views challenged.

Near the end of her post, she says “So please don’t think that I’m just some Angry black women looking for a handout!” But that’s exactly what you’re looking for, Crystal! You’re looking for a big ol’, heaping-helping of sympathy – waiting for white people to suddenly “see the light” about how existence is just so difficult for you, then fall down on their knees, confess their guilt, and…I don’t know…have a parade or something.

Well, guess what? I don’t have any sympathy for you. You wanna know why?

Because you live in the wealthiest country in the world.

You have a college education.

You have a full-time job sitting at a desk.

You own your own home.

You’re married and you have two children.

So, IOW, you are better off and have an easier life than probably 95% of the human beings that are alive on this planet.

That’s why I don’t have any sympathy for you. And that’s why I’m not buying the bulls**t Obama’s trying to sell to the American people – that somehow, the wealthiest, most leisured people in the world are in need of saving and “hope” and “change”.

Go to an Obama Revival – and that’s exactly what they are, good old-fashioned big-tent revivals – and you know what you’ll see? A bunch of idiots listening to a preacher tell them how terrible everything is…clapping and yelling and swooning and fainting…then driving home in their Volvos, Lexus’, and BMWs!!!

The fact that so many people in this country are so emotionally fragile and weak is infuriating!!!

I really, truly fear what the next 50 years may hold in store for humanity.

But maybe I shouldn’t worry..maybe Obama’s got the answer.

Or maybe Oprah.

“I would vote for Obama only if he supported to stop women’s suffrage based on what I have seen from the Oprah crowds.”

Based on pasts and comments on this blog, conservative Republican suffrage should be abolished.

I was listening to radio when Obama was in Ohio and a lady had taken her 15 year old daughter to see obama. They asked to tell us one thing that Obama stands for and the mother said change and hope, that’s it. Her 15 year old said he was really cute and has a nice smile and her mother agreed.

The mother claimed that she had taken her daughter out of school so she could experience politics and get involved. Now that’s a hell of a lesson. Vote for the cute one.

I would vote for Obama only if he supported to stop women’s suffrage based on what I have seen from the Oprah crowds.

Tucker Carlson stated on Morning Joe that rev. wright said that Natallie Halloway was a slut. Tucker had done a report last year on the rev and read this in the rev transcripts.

The sad thing is, I don’t think that would change these young college girls minds about obama because he is sooooo cute.

Obama’s campaign took off after he appeared on… the Opran Winfrey show. The fact that you identify with him so much just proves the point that this is not about his policy positions or accomplishments, this is about validating yourself and your racial identity.

While I am utterly disgusted with the policies of the Republicans and want to see the majority of them repealed, I am just as disgusted with identity politics and those who practice them. I’m going to be holding my nose come November no matter who’s on the ballot, and if you stepped outside of your mental box you’d see why cynicism is going to enjoy a bull market based on the fundamentals.

What of the many “reputable” but evil

white ministers–Pat Robertson and Falwell, for example…why are they not disowned? oh, they are white, I had forgot.