Former President Has Spoken
Dear Editor,
Barack Hussein Obama has spoken! He has informed the world that we are racist because we were consumed with the news of the mini-submarine that imploded in the deep waters near the sunken Titanic. Evidently, a boat capsized off of the coastline of Greece, and hundreds of people of color perished in the tragedy.
What is the first mixed-race president talking about? What kind of idiocy is he peddling? I am not taking his or any other leftists’ holier-than-thou nonsense anymore. Obama set the stage for the disorder and chaos that is tearing our country apart with his phony outrage, racial division, class warfare, support for the radical leftist agenda and communist view of history. He is stirring up trouble again, but the people are rising up and he is looking almost as lost as Joe Biden – his game is antiquated and he has brought chaos upon our great land. The majority of the citizenry have backpedaled for decades as the left yelled in our face with pseudo moral superiority. The citizenry has had enough. We are fighting back.
We need to defeat the left soundly and send them into code pink mode – permanently on the sideline in their isolated freak show.
Jamie LaMuraglia
Historically Men Had More Rights Than Women
Dear Editor,
I think that “affirmative action” type programs should only take gender into consideration. If you go back far enough you will see that all races, tribes, castes and ethnic groups allowed men to have more rights and opportunities than women.
Chuck Mann
Why Others Must Sacrifice
Dear Editor,
Two Supreme Court decisions involved questionable university policies to reduce racial disparities by increasing campus diversity.
Universities have inventively increased cost barriers to higher education that drive racial disparities. Higher education rates are a much greater causes of racial disparities than racism. Higher education leads to more opportunities, better health outcomes and higher incomes. The most effective strategy to narrow racial gaps in the US is to encourage more individuals to attend/graduate college. Costs, tuition and fees have continued to rise despite containment strategies. For example, legislative tuition containment efforts only increased fees.
These two cases involved superficial solutions with little benefit. Minority preference in admissions increases diversity for only a select few institutions with dramatically low acceptance rates. For the remainder, discrepancy is due to racial differences in number of applicants. Racial preference in admissions doesn’t increase the number of minority applicants. Forgiving loans after graduation, which smart applicants know can never be counted on, doesn’t increase the number of minority applicants either. Several commentators suggested scholarships to increase diversity. However, availability of scholarships usually only affect college selection decisions. Applicants know scholarships are selective and can be taken away. When making the first decision, to go or not to go to college, potential applicants look at the overall bottom line. Only reducing costs can effectively reduce barriers to higher education and increase minority applications.
Superficially concentrating on ideological, intellectually lazy policies targeting racism is a dangerous cycle. Since racism is the only answer considered, the only solution is to reduce racism. However, these solutions ignore the reality of free will. We all have a right to make different decisions (that others may disagree with) based on variety of factors (unimportant to others). When these solutions fail, the only explanation considered is difficulty overcoming racism. In biased minds, success is not required, failure “proves” that failed ideology is true.
The other reason for these superficial policies is addiction to continually growing unchecked revenue. Administrators and professors refuse to make changes required for real impact. They want to continue to increase their personal benefits. Others must pay to reduce negative impact of higher education’s refusal to control growing costs.
In an increasingly liberally biased university environment, opposition is responsible for failure. Therefore, those who disagree must pay more to fix negative effects. Protesting colleges for failing to control costs would be a better way to accomplish goals of both these cases.
Alan Burke
“Historically Men Had More Rights Than Women”
Until men invented myriad tools which freed women from the disadvantages of lack of muscle strength and lack of birth control, nature ordained that women and men would have different roles and responsibilities.
Looking at it from a different perspective, in early history, victorious tribes killed all the men and took the women as slaves or wives. Who had more rights in that instance?
Barack Obama made those comments while in Greece about the capsized migrant boat. I have always hated when any politician leaves our nations shores and talks trash about America. Obama has done it on a regular basis.
Lol, he was talking about from a global perspective.
Jamie, I assume this is what you are refering too…..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iip2l7BDRAU
He makes a good point and clearly had the support of his audience. Maybe you should ask yourself why you lack the capacity for compassion for the 700 people that died in a far more tragic accident. Note, he didn’t lack compassion for those in the billion’s sub, he just wished the world gave as much attention to a far bigger loss of life. It was a fair question.
But you be you.
Tragedies happen so often that unless it is local, it just doesn’t hold attention for long. Every year there seems to be ferries or boats sinking, or train wrecks, with great loss of life. It is sad. But remote, far away and there is little one person in Greensboro can do about it. You say a prayer and move on. The sub imploding was interesting because of the nature of the dive, etc. And, it held us in suspense for a few days. It was more of a mystery. There are several non-racist reasons the sub was in the news longer than a sinking boat off Greece.
It’s not every day that 700 people die from a single sinking of a ship. I understand the curiosity of such a unique accident as the sub implosion was…Obama just wished out loud, that people cared as much about those dying trying to escape tragic events in their home counties.
Clearly not worth the attack made in Jamie’s letter. Makes you wonder what really motivated him to have such hate for a rather innocuous comment from President Obama. He clearly has something akin to those of us who suffer from Anti -Trump Syndrome.
Alan Burke, that is a great response. Well written without all the drama and name calling. Well thought out and written. I strongly agree with you that in both cases, there are better ways to meet the goal of reducing barriers to higher education for the disadvantaged in our communities.
I do disagree on your point about the cause for rising costs…economics will point out that they population of college age people has far outgrown the pace of new space at existing or new universities. Supply and demand determine price and that has been overwhelmingly in the universities favor. Especially at the more elite universities that attract high competition for space from international students.
I also challenge somewhat your comment on ‘intellectually lazy policies’. I think racism is one of the many issues facing up and coming high school graduates’ access to higher education but do concede it is not the ONLY barrier. It is just that racism is controversial, so it gets more press while many of the other barrier do need more focus.
Great letter just the same. I hope you keep it up even though I disagree with you often on the details.
There’s something rich about a couple of African-American millionaires vacationing in the Greek Islands while complaining about the ‘systemic racism’ that keeps them down.
But the irony is lost on them.
Barry & Mike are not too bright.
So, your argument is what? Since Obama overcame racial bias to gain political success and wealth, are you implying the that proves there is NO racial bias impacting minority communities today? or NO lasting impact of our deep history of racial bias? That is like saying because most billionaires are white, all whites must be billionaires? Guess the irony is lost on you?
Note that Obama overcame racial bias by leading grass roots efforts to fight racial bias which led him to higher and higher office.
HEY READER !
—— Just read the above post if you want an insight into a liberal’s mind. It’s a farrago of suppositions, non-sequiturs, and fallacies. And the author even proclaims that it’s all speculative anyway!
False and fabricated premises lead to false conclusions.
As the computer programmers say, “Garbage in – Garbage Out”. That’s an apt characterization of Leftist thinking.
LOL, I was asking questions. Note the punctuation. Trigger much? LOL