Re: The country I was raised in


Eliyahu Wrote:
> Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send wrote:
> > RaeMorrill wrote:
> > > Well, how do parents have any control of who sits where on a bus.
> First
> > > of all, I imagine mostly this was public transportation as at some
> > > points the issue on school bus was moot - the blacks were not in
> same
> >
> > In the Deep South a lot of the Christian school movement started not
> > because parents wanted to get their children away from influences
> that
> > could cause them conflicts with their Christian beliefs but because
> the
> > Christian schools were not required to desegregate.
>
> Do you mean to say that it wasn't just coincidence that almost all of
> the "Christian Academies" were founded within a few weeks of court
> orders desegregating schools in the particular communities, counties
> and states where they are located? I'm shocked! <sarcasm off>
>
> Seriously, part of the reason for the schools was that their own
> interpretation of their "Christian Beliefs" was that God favored
> segregation and that it was supported by the bible, using the same
> "proof texts" that had been used for centuries by slave owners to
> justify their own situation. It's amazing how many of them had a sudden
> revelation that God had changed his mind when they discovered that
> Federal dollars were available to schools that didn't discriminate...
>
> The biggest issue I've seen in this thread stems from the fact that a
> few posters had the apparent good fortune to grow up in a place where
> they weren't exposed to racism, de facto segregation or other forms of
> blatent bigotry, and they're having a difficult time accepting that
> this wasn't the norm for the rest of the country or for the other folks
> who post here. I was fortunate to have grown up in a Navy family,
> stationed in places where there wasn't as much racism as there was
> elsewhere. I also had parents who wouldn't tolerate it for a minute,
> including a father who never hesitated to speak up when he didn't
> approve of something after having grown up in the old Hell's Kitchen
> section of NYC. Nevertheless, I've also lived in places where it was
> endemic and where people didn't even try to hide their racism. Even
> had a landlord in Tennessee try to use me as a "token minority" so as
> to avoid integrating his mobile home park, so the Army wouldn't place
> him off limits.
>
> Eliyahu
What seems to be missing here is that discrimination comes in all
shapes and sizes and there seems to be a lot of assumption that
discrimination comes from Anglo-Saxon Chrisitian white people and this
simply is not the case. Just stating that is a prejudice. When I was
in high school there was a private high school that I wanted to go to
because they had a college prepatory course that I was interested in.
This school's ratio was about 80% black students to the other 20% of
mixed races. I was discriminated against and held back in sports,
academic groups, etc. and I am sure that the ones who were responsible
felt that I had it coming to me because I am white. Where I live now,
white's are also a minority with Hispanics making up the bulk of the
population and I have been discriminated against in jobs where only
Hispanics seem to be given the promotions. All races, religions, and
both genders are capable of discrimination and somehow thinking they
are superior or are entitled to slight another based on something
immeasurable like the color of their skin or the God they worship or
even what is between their legs. And I will not even stoop to being so
PC as to call any of these forms reverese discrimination because in the
end it is all discrimination.


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JCav
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