24th January 2004, 8:42 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft97.../mead.html - A decent read regardless of position...
Agreed.
Quote:Doing the required research is NOT worth the time to not convince one person who won't listen regardless.
Translation: "I repeat what my liberal college professors tell me to believe, but I don't know why."
Quote:I would say that blacks have gone somewhere from before civil rights, obviously -- note that they can vote... since then? No not as much progress, but given how little has happened to change that it's hardly surprising... oh, and both are definitely helping a lot of people.
The right for blacks to vote was established in the 15th amendment, a hundred years before the civil rights movement.
The thing is, there has been a lot of change. Again, our generation is more tolerant and accepting than any other before... and yet, things get worse.
As for it helping a lot of people, stop saying nonsense you can't prove. If you can't the time to show me, then don't bother telling me.
Quote:The main thing making the situation worse is the constant actions of conservatives like you to get rid of the system of laws that help those people... there's a reason most all blacks are Democrats -- they know that your idea of "help" would be the precise opposite and that the Democrats can help them if they were able. People like you stop most help from actually getting to people, of course, so we'll have to wait.
How are the helping people? Again, don't say what you can't prove.
Quote:And your standard tactic of saying that all poor people are lying scum mooching off the poor rich people who shouldn't have to deal with such trash because they couldn't help themselves do the impossible sure doesn't ingratiate you among any group other than the wealthy and the stupid, that's for sure. Because you'd have to be in one of those groups to believe something that dumb. It is just simply not true in any sense.
What about the middle class? Liberals so often forget it exists, even though it's the largest economic class, the one that bears much of the tax burden.
My family was poor once. We aren't now. We're not rich but we're comfortable. And we never used government subsidies to get here. My parents worked hard and saved scrupulously. So no, I don't think all poor people are stupid and lazy, but I do think quite a few are and I think a good reason some are is because of free handouts. This is why I also know that poor people CAN in fact succeed without government handouts. It takes hard work and smarts. And if my family can do it, why can't anyone else?
Quote:History proves how totally wrong your ideas are, that's what it proves.
Don't say what you can't prove, Part III.
[quote]I agree gangsta rap culture is bad, but not about the cause...
It's not a cause, just a very unfortunate effect.
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