Remember the 60's

[Gonz]

All the free love & peace movements? Racial de-segregation...wimins rights...

At it's heart it was good & succeeded. Then it started rolling downhill & became a miserable failure. We're just looking at the mirror image & todays youth have said enough. Here's another example.

HADDON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Some white students at a South Jersey Catholic school walked out of classes Tuesday in protest over a speech by the New Jersey Secretary of State Regina Thomas.

Tensions have been building up at Paul VI High School since Thomas' speech on racial justice last week.

Many students and faculty members walked out of the speech offended. They said that she lambasted one student for not knowing his black history and that she insinuated that the students were racist.

"It's, like, really crazy right now. Teachers are just standing by the doors. Kids are trying to get out. Kids are in the hallway, they won't go to class," one female student said.

"It was chaotic in there. Nobody went to class first and fourth period," another student said.

Several dozen students walked out after an assembly Tuesday in which the principal offered prayer for healing the rift between students.

"A lot of people are confused, and stuff. I think that's half the problem, there's a lack of communication," a student told NBC 10 News.

Many of the white students and faculty members were offended by what they called an overly confrontational and unprofessional speech by the secretary. Some felt she was calling them racist and a backlash on some black students fueled the fire.

"They don't know what it is like to open up your locker and see a KKK letter there. It's not the most comfortable feeling at all," said African-American student Kristen Minoh.

Minoh said the tension was too much Tuesday.

Many students said the racial problems began only after the secretary's speech.

"I think she just started up a bunch of stuff and basically tried to start something," a student said.

"There's an issue at every school, it's no more of an issue at this school than any other school," another student countered.

Thomas issued a statement Tuesday in which she said that she is passionate about the topic of diversity and wanted to raise the level of awareness. She said that she never meant to be personal or critical of the students or the school.

The Diocese of Camden said it has listened to the views of students and parents on both side of the issues. It said that a majority of those students and parents were offended by the speech and the diocese was going to tell the secretary of state that it felt the tone was inappropriate for a high school setting and that a majority of the students felt disrespected by the speech.

In the immortal words of Dr King:

"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Whatever happened to that dream?

 

[catocom]

Whatever happened to that dream?

nothing happened, it's still a dream.

Seriously though, that's exactly the way I see it now, myself.
I probably have some bigotry thoughts way back there somewhere
in my mind, but as far as the "esteem" I hold for people,
it's all good with the dream.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

"They don't know what it is like to open up your locker and see a KKK letter there. It's not the most comfortable feeling at all," said African-American student Kristen Minoh.

And I'd wager, neither does this student.

Reverse racism is rampant and totally ignored. Equal has not meant equal in this country for over a hundred years, and now things are completely out of hand. It ain't gonna be long before we see some real problems in our streets and we will have naught to blame but our damnselves. Makes me glad I'm not living in a city.

 

[chcr]

Whatever happened to that dream?

Nobody gives a shit about equality anymore. They all want preferential treatment.

It ain't gonna be long before we see some real problems in our streets

I've been saying it for years. At some point there will be a backlash. It will not be pretty. This is just the beginning.

 

[Thulsa Doom]

I've been saying it for years. At some point there will be a backlash. It will not be pretty. This is just the beginning.

There already has been a backlash. Where were you guys when they made the contract on america in the early 90s? There will be no whole scale attack on minority equality though. The religious right wing conservatives who are in power now are more concerned with turning "morally conservative" (read religious) blacks to their republican side rather then screwing them over because a few blacks say silly things on college campuses. Oh dont get me wrong. theyll still screw them over. But theyll smile about it and say they arent, rather then say "screw you! we are sick of your complaints!"

Oh and by the way no one remembers the 60s of course.

 

[chcr]

1. I do remember the sixties.
2. I'm not referring to backlash against minority equalities, but rather the minority special interest groups that seem to think that being a minority entitles them to preferential treatment. It won't be the religious right that backlashes and I fear it will set the civil rights movement back by decades.

Note that I thing these various special interests are aware of all of this but will continue to grab all they can and fuck everyone else.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Oh and by the way no one remembers the 60s of course.

Very few seem to remember it with any clarity. Things have a funny way of changing over time, depending on the teller of the tale.

 

[Gato_Solo]

Oh and by the way no one remembers the 60s of course.

I do. I was there. I remember when my uncle came home from Vietnam. I remember when I was refused entrance to a public swimming pool. I remember the protests in the streets. I have felt injustice and racism up close, and very personal. You don't because you weren't born then. You came later...after it all started falling apart. Now, there is no justice because people refuse to take responsibility. What you call racism today I call foolishness. What you call bigotry, I call ignorance.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Now, there is no justice because people refuse to take responsibility. What you call racism today I call foolishness. What you call bigotry, I call ignorance.

That comes closer to right than anything I've seen on the topic in many moons.

 

[chcr]

I do. I was there. I remember when my uncle came home from Vietnam. I remember when I was refused entrance to a public swimming pool. I remember the protests in the streets. I have felt injustice and racism up close, and very personal. You don't because you weren't born then. You came later...after it all started falling apart. Now, there is no justice because people refuse to take responsibility. What you call racism today I call foolishness. What you call bigotry, I call ignorance.

Well put, Gato.

 

[Gonz]

Equality has no minority or majority status. It is equal.

The Dems have used the exact same rhetoric for over 50 years on how the rich white republicans were gonna put shackles back on the legs of the non-rich non-white non-republicans. In doing so, the Dems allowed the blacks of America to shackle themselves to a party that does nothing & has done nothing except use scare tactics. 50 years of oppression in the name of entitlements & assistance has done more to damage the negro culture in America than 300 years of slavery. Some see thru that (thanks in part to the Conract with America) & are no longer being the slave to the Democrat party. Hell, Frederick Douglas knew a good thing when he saw it way back when. Say, what was party that did, and does, more to promote freedom & equality among blacks in America, and world wide? Go aheada, it starts with an (R).

 

[Inkara1]

If you remember the 60s, you weren't really there.