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Black Opportunity Destruction

Andy440 Wrote: Feb 23, 2010 5:51 PM
The black civil rights movement was hijacked, in the 60's, by extreme left-wing radicals. Since then, any meaningful conversation or candid comment about the black experience in the U.S. has been totally sidetracked into the "taboo", 'don't go there' realm of the sacred elephant graveyard. An entire political party has hitched its star to a "blanket", automatic justification of ANY aspect of black American culture, enshrining a whole sub-section of American culture into permanent "victim" status. Any meaningful discussion on the the perceived issues or 'shortcomings' in the American Black culture are instantly attacked as "racist" or "bigoted". The "winners" in this on-going P.C. campaign of lies and misinformation concerning the Black...

"Do you mean he is taller than me am?" sarcastically barked Dr. Martin Rosenberg, my high school English teacher, to one of the students in our class. The student actually said, "He is taller than me," but Rosenberg was ridiculing the student's grammar. The subject of the elliptical (or understood) verb "am" must be in the subjective case. Thus, the correct form of the sentence is: He is taller than I.

This correction/dressing down of a student, that occasionally included me, occurred during my attendance at North Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin High School in the early '50s. Franklin was predominantly black;...

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