[Rhodes22-list] Politics continued - John misleader on W.E.B. DuBois

[Brad Haslett]

John,

There are a lot of smart people in the world.  Between China and India it is
about a third or more?  That is a lot of smart people, even discounting the
dumb and poor ones.  How long are we going to beat ourselves up for a
condition that has existed since the beginning of humanity - slavery.  The
dream of MLK died here in Memphis on the same day he was killed here - "my
children will be judged by their heart, not by the color of their skin"
(heavily paraphrased).  That movement got hijacked in the parking lot of the
Lorraine Hotel by Jessie Jackson and has been promoted for his interests
ever since.  Personally, I don't feel guilty for black people, Chinese
people, Palestinian people, Iraqi's or Iranian's, or anyone else.  I deal
with people one on one.  If you're an asshole, you're an asshole.  If you
are a nice person, you're a nice person.  Same deal with religion or
gender.  I don't buy into the collective guilt bullshit!  Welcome to
America.  If anyone thinks there is a better place on the planet I will buy
you a one way ticket there.  I'm dead serious!  In fact, I'm so serious I'll
give you a place to live in China.  This is one fu$k at d up country.  Given
the alternatives, it not all that bad.  However, comma, someone has to
produce.  Anyone sitting on their ass bitching never built a thing!

Brad

On Jan 10, 2008 1:58 PM, john Belanger <jhnblngr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> anyone heard of a program called  "no child left behind"? i'm not
> advocating communism. booker t wanted to stay within the system including
> jim crow (wiki) but was also 10 years a slave. gaston had a series of
> confrontations with other members of the civil rights movement but still
> tried to stay inside the system. i don't believe any minority in the world
> has been able to demonstate their need for respect without some level of
> confrontation occurring.
>
> Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
> John said, "DuBois was born in 1868, three years after the war. what do
> you
> think his point of view should be?"
>
> He was a contemporary of Booker T. Washington and Arthur Gaston. Both
> those
> guys were active in Civil Rights advocacy. They adamantly disagreed with
> him during his life. I respect the achievements of those two rather than
> your fellow travelers.
>
> Communism and socialism are not a freedom bases systems. They foster
> dependency and ultimately fail to provide what they purport to say what
> they
> will provide.
>
> They fail because they kill individual initiative. People are smart enough
> to see that if they do not have to work for sustenance and medical care,
> then they do not work. You cannot provide ascribed benefits out of air.
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> "Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and
> for all." [Nikita Khrushchev , February 25, 1956 20th Congress of the
> Communist Party]
>
> "We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is
> best for society." Hillary Clinton, 1993
>
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