The answer is RACISM and CLASSISM
Hey Folks -
It sometimes amazes me what the Dispatch (my local newspaper) will publish under the heading "Letters to the Editor." Below is one you can almost smell as well as read. According to its editors (speaking on a local radio program), the paper is a "moderately conservative" paper and on its editorial page presents equal numbers of commentary by lefty pundits and righty pundits, going "right down the middle."
Unfortunately, they went on to identify Thomas Friedman as the lefty balancing out George Will, the righty. Sort of makes the "middle" somewhere to the right of the middle, don't you think?
Read the letter below (I think it's [maybe] to the right); then I'll have a bit more to say. I've inserted a few comments in blue.
Court working to right some wrongs
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
I respond to the July 3 Dispatch Forum column by Eugene Robinson, "High court's school ruling means many more steps backward." Robinson has it wrong.
It has taken the court 53 years to right the wrongs committed by leftist members of the U.S. Supreme Court (He's talking about 1954 and the Brown v. Board of Education case. Obviously, he thinks "separate but equal" is just fine). If anything, President Bush's legacy of turning the court around and heading it back toward adhering to the U.S. Constitution, getting away from legislating from the bench and quitting its social engineering will be an accomplishment long overdue. Can this be interpreted as anything other than hoping for a "long overdue" return to segregation and "Jim Crow"?
Robinson played the race card all through his column (whatever that means, Robinson was still NOT a racist). He can't face failure.
He continued to talk about diversity. Only socialists and communists use the term. (And, for the most part, racists are the ones who call advocates of "diversity" "socialists and communists.") It is a dismal failure.
Our forced busing to accomplish integrated schools, and integrated schools after 53 years are also a failure (The reasons are racism and classism). If diversity is so wonderful, ask yourself, why did "white flight"occur? (Because of racism and classism) Why have school boards in major cities, including Columbus, gone under black control? (Because of racism and classism) Why have standards fallen? (Because of racism and classism) Why have the percentage of high-school graduates fallen? (Because of racism and classism) Grade averages? (Because of racism and classism)
On what standard are they based?
Why are students in the 12th grade unable to pass a ninth-grade evaluation test? (Because of racism and classism) Why is an all-black high school allowed to exist? (Because of racism and classism) When will an all-white high school be instituted? They already exist.
In conclusion, when the court continues to act and respond like a Supreme Court should, would it be too much to expect our Congress to again be legislators and statesmen, instead of political hacks, continually campaigning, raising money for campaigns and voting themselves raises? Yeah, let's return to pre-1954 when everything was nearly perfect - in the schools, on the busses, at the pools, in the diners, and even at the water fountains.
DALE E. LAUFFER
Columbus
Now aside from the sadly ignorant, possibly demented racism of this letter, doesn't it put the Dispatch in a difficult position? What is the "opposite" view that will keep the letters page ballanced right down the middle?
Would it be a letter demanding whites be sent back to Europe? Does someone need to demand that 12% of the states be set aside for Black Americans only? Or does the Dispatch see something more humane - like Rodney King's "Why can't we all just get along" - as radical enough to ballance Lauffer's sick and hateful rant?
Sort of puts the "middle" somewhere to the right of the middle, don't you think?
- Uke Man
It sometimes amazes me what the Dispatch (my local newspaper) will publish under the heading "Letters to the Editor." Below is one you can almost smell as well as read. According to its editors (speaking on a local radio program), the paper is a "moderately conservative" paper and on its editorial page presents equal numbers of commentary by lefty pundits and righty pundits, going "right down the middle."
Unfortunately, they went on to identify Thomas Friedman as the lefty balancing out George Will, the righty. Sort of makes the "middle" somewhere to the right of the middle, don't you think?
Read the letter below (I think it's [maybe] to the right); then I'll have a bit more to say. I've inserted a few comments in blue.
Court working to right some wrongs
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
I respond to the July 3 Dispatch Forum column by Eugene Robinson, "High court's school ruling means many more steps backward." Robinson has it wrong.
It has taken the court 53 years to right the wrongs committed by leftist members of the U.S. Supreme Court (He's talking about 1954 and the Brown v. Board of Education case. Obviously, he thinks "separate but equal" is just fine). If anything, President Bush's legacy of turning the court around and heading it back toward adhering to the U.S. Constitution, getting away from legislating from the bench and quitting its social engineering will be an accomplishment long overdue. Can this be interpreted as anything other than hoping for a "long overdue" return to segregation and "Jim Crow"?
Robinson played the race card all through his column (whatever that means, Robinson was still NOT a racist). He can't face failure.
He continued to talk about diversity. Only socialists and communists use the term. (And, for the most part, racists are the ones who call advocates of "diversity" "socialists and communists.") It is a dismal failure.
Our forced busing to accomplish integrated schools, and integrated schools after 53 years are also a failure (The reasons are racism and classism). If diversity is so wonderful, ask yourself, why did "white flight"occur? (Because of racism and classism) Why have school boards in major cities, including Columbus, gone under black control? (Because of racism and classism) Why have standards fallen? (Because of racism and classism) Why have the percentage of high-school graduates fallen? (Because of racism and classism) Grade averages? (Because of racism and classism)
On what standard are they based?
Why are students in the 12th grade unable to pass a ninth-grade evaluation test? (Because of racism and classism) Why is an all-black high school allowed to exist? (Because of racism and classism) When will an all-white high school be instituted? They already exist.
In conclusion, when the court continues to act and respond like a Supreme Court should, would it be too much to expect our Congress to again be legislators and statesmen, instead of political hacks, continually campaigning, raising money for campaigns and voting themselves raises? Yeah, let's return to pre-1954 when everything was nearly perfect - in the schools, on the busses, at the pools, in the diners, and even at the water fountains.
DALE E. LAUFFER
Columbus
Now aside from the sadly ignorant, possibly demented racism of this letter, doesn't it put the Dispatch in a difficult position? What is the "opposite" view that will keep the letters page ballanced right down the middle?
Would it be a letter demanding whites be sent back to Europe? Does someone need to demand that 12% of the states be set aside for Black Americans only? Or does the Dispatch see something more humane - like Rodney King's "Why can't we all just get along" - as radical enough to ballance Lauffer's sick and hateful rant?
Sort of puts the "middle" somewhere to the right of the middle, don't you think?
- Uke Man
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