Deja vu Separate but Equal?

News Report:  "In order to help black males graduate, the University of Connecticut is constructing a dorm with a living space only for them. Called the ScHOLA2RS House, the living community for African American males is set to open in 2016. According to UConn’s website, the ScHOLA2RS House is “a scholastic initiative to groom, nurture, and train the next generation of leaders to address grand challenges in society through the promotion of academic success in undergraduate programs at the University of Connecticut and in competitive graduate programs.”

Now we move from affirmative action into reverse discrimination. We have lowered the standards to be admitted, lowered the standards to graduate, and given preferential hiring, what next? New college buildings for only Black men? Will they be paid for by Black men only or your tax dollars? I think you can figure that one out.

When I was in 9th grade my family was living in Georgia. At that time the US was still living under the stigma of what was supposedly separate but equal public facilities. Separate lunch counters, bathrooms etc. Yes it was wrong and Americans changed it. For all of the civil rights marches and protests it was still primarily WHITE politicians who rewrote the laws and corrected the archaic discriminatory practices. My high school in Georgia was right out of the pages of "Gone With The Wind." The only new part was, of course, the gymnasium. The classrooms still had the iron framed bench seat desks with lift up tops and ink wells. This was like living on the set of Little House on the Prairie. The real irony was this school was all white. After we got off the bus the black kids  continued on down the road. They went to a brand new school with all new desks and chairs.

I remember separate lunch counters and bathrooms. I remember the dead freedom riders in a ditch in Alabama or was it Mississippi and the bombed churches. It was an ugly, evil time. Are we ready to repeat it all over by creating a new separate but equal society? Call it Apartheid, Segregation, or "a living community for African American males," it still smells bad.

Just Who is the Enemy?

COWBOY'S LIVES MATTER.
I am trying to absorb what happened in Oregon at the Malheur Refuge. A couple dozen people were holed up in what was basically an un-attended building, left open to the public. They were heavily armed and protesting the re-arrest, and re-sentencing of two local ranchers, for a crime they had already served time for. Whether the original conviction was even legitimate or not you cannot re-sentence someone for the same crime. It is unconstitutional, period! The protesters holed up were also trying to bring attention to the fact that this was only one more seizure of private property by a land hungry federal (or is it feral) government. The government has forced out ranchers and farmers and miners all to gain control over "public land." So that is the backdrop.

Last night on the way to a public meeting the protesters were stopped at a roadblock and engaged in a fire-fight. One protester was shot dead, another wounded, and 7-8 arrested and hauled off to jail. Now what really puzzles me is the high level of aggression brought down on these peacefully assembled people. In fact they were headed to a meeting to discuss a stand-down when they were stopped. Now I want you to contrast what happened in Oregon with what did not happen in Baltimore, or Ferguson, or New York City when other peoples exercised their First Amendment rights to gather and ask for redress of grievances. No arrests were made, none were shot and killed in Baltimore or Ferguson by the way. You look at the photos and see which side might be the Anarchists and which are not.

 

Okay now here are the folks in Oregon who were attacked by the FBI and State Troopers. Can you see any comparison?

As seen in the photo below these people came fully prepared to defend their rights and could have easily drawn first blood. But they vowed to NOT fire the first shot, even in defense of their rights or lives. One thing I didn't know, that Anarchist could also be spelled P.A.T.R.I.O.T.

 

 

Balance

The POS POTUS president/emperor says we "Must balance our constitutional rights." Is that so? That is double speak for hand over your guns, hand over your rights, bend over and kiss my azz.
Molon Labe