At least we beat out South Africa!
I can remember wondering why the school board here in Alleghany County, NC bothered to sent a small bus of kids to Elkin, NC from here when we had 3 primary schools and 2 high schools operating here. (I have always been a schemer of ways to keep some of my money, ever since I had any in my pocket, lucky enough to be able to hang on to $3 /week after I got a water boy job at the local school construction site for the new high shcool I went to).
I find it sort of strange that the local schools here sort of self-segregate. Go look in a study hall or cafeteria, you can almost see the self imposed “white only”, “black only” and one I tried to break (but the students would tend to wave at someone and move to another table) “teacher’s only” signs on the table.
I just never figured out why my father was as prejucided as he was because he worked with blacks in construction his whole life. He never did “talk” to them as much as lead them in the construction jobs.
If we could just stamp out the slavery left in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Why is something obviously so evil so prevalent in the world, I wonder?
As I worked as a laborer with blacks, I ran my mouth as much with them as anybody, asking about things, why the N word (not Negro) offended them.
My prejudice of them is that as a group, they can’t decide what to call themselves unless it is something misleading such as Afro-American, which seems to me would be an immigrant from Africa that has just obtained US citizenship.
I agree with Redd Foxx that they aren’t black either. More like milk chocolate, dark chocolate, caramel, graham cracker, etc.
The only person I saw that was actually black was from Pakistan, BTW, so I don’t think that label can be clamed by the whatevers.
If they have to notify everybody of their heritage and nationality, why not American-Afro or American Negro which would be much more sensible.
Personally, I am a citizen of the United States of America, and all other citizens are too, whether red, yellow, black, caramel, polka dot (me) or red with polka dots and blisters in the summer (me again).
As far as the homosexual marriage is concerned, it is really pointless. You might be stepping in something you might want to wipe off your shoe. There will be costly laws to prevent it with marriage on the books.
The purpose of marriage is to cause commitment to the protection of the offspring of the union and of course, you know biology, no?
Social studies have shown the absolute best environment for children is having a male role model and a female role model as parents, so (IMHO) the courts and adoption agencies aren’t doing the job they are supposed to do and making serious attempts to place foster/adopted children in the best possible environment when they allow homosexual or single adoption or foster care.
As much as I love kids, I wouldn’t adopt or foster one, being single. I don’t have a wife to show them the proper relationship with the (sometimes) gentler sex.
A sentiment fathers everywhere will doubtless recognise!