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Monday, April 09, 2007
La Shawn Barber :: Townhall.com Columnist
Seattle’s Guilt-Tripping Battles
by La Shawn Barber
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In other words, long-term planning, goal-setting, and speaking proper English are white traits that shouldn’t be foisted on blacks, and it is racist to define these things as beneficial. This is what passes for intelligent discourse in government schools, and your taxes pay for it.

Has Hollins ever wondered if racial disparities like the achievement gap exist because some blacks fail to speak standard English, plan for the future, save money, set goals, and accept personal, individual responsibility?

Doubtful. People like Hollins enjoy spouting high-falutin’ rhetoric for its own sake, crafting nonsensical statements, and trying to make whites responsible for black students’ underachievement. After much ridicule, Hollins removed the original statement (retrieved from The Internet Archive) and replaced it with a benign yet equally silly statement.

Hollins recently admitted to The Seattle Times that even she, a die-hard, diversity-obsessed devotee, could not find an institutionally racist program in the system. With nowhere else to turn, she pointed to summer vacation – summer vacation – as “an example of systemic problems” because black children fall even further behind.

Bureaucrats like Flynn and Hollins are living in a fantasy world. Hope for closing the achievement gap lies not in guilt-tripping whites but in promoting good study habits, encouraging individuals to work hard, be responsible for their own behavior, and learn to express themselves clearly, while urging parents to get involved in their kids’ education. All of this requires long-term planning, goal-setting, “individualism,” and speaking proper English.

But those are “white” values, so nevermind.

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Freelance writer La Shawn Barber blogs at the American Civil Rights Institute blog.
Fine writing, and very courageous
Excellent article by Ms Barber!

She is courageous for writing this. She will be vilified and verbally assaulted, at least, by the self-proclaimed "tolerance" crowd for daring to write such things.


> great "people of color" such as Maya Angelou <

I'd bet a lot that you've never read anything she wrote. Many people feel she has been given too much credit just because she's black.

Just because Oprah likes someone doesn't mean she is actually *great* at what she does.

Seattle & Diversity
Though some dislike hearing it, Washingtonians are California wannabes....so many of them came from California, just like Oregonians, both are fully stocked with California escapees. I'm one myself, I just went even further up.

Seattle's penchant with "diversity" is well reflected by MarkMcLemore who drones on about how they've become the World Center of Wonderful. Yeah, let's go for a drive in all the affluent Black communities like Bellevue,Mark, show me all those upscale communities of Diversity, why don't you.

The first Black State School Superintendent in the USA was Wilson Riles in 1970. Jerry Brown was the Governor, he failed in his run for the Presidency and eventually became the Mayor of Oakland when he endorsed Ebonics.

After some years of teaching and as a school principal, Riles joined the California State Department of Education in 1958 as a consultant, its first ever African-American professional employee. In 1970 he was elected state superintendent of schools and was reelected in 1974 and 1978. He left office in 1983 to form an educational consulting firm, Wilson Riles and Associates, Inc.

He was the first African-American ever elected to a state-wide office in California and the first elected African-American state superintendent of schools. At the very least,they didn't have to import him from Philadelphia.

I'm one of the category of "minorities" which is sick and tired of seeing the bleeding heart liberals using the minority issue as a stepping stone to their agenda of government control of
our lives as though we lack the capacity to do so for ourselves.

Enough with this phony forced diversity,it comes down to individual desire to succeed, not your color, your race or your religion. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the USA who, as I did, are living proof that we didn't need Government to get us there and they are of every race, heritage and economic background.


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