Billy Batson said:
the stupidity of affirmative action.
Billy, I disagree.
America needs MORE action directed at affirming the national interest, specifically, in redressing the problems inherent in the people that came 400years ago, from Europe. Those people who came here, way back then, who carried the European idea of slavery into this new world, also raised up a nation of wonderful people.
Only 100 years free, after 1776, from the Western European mentality, we the people, here in America, freed this new world of the ancient concept of slavery, 1865.
We AFFIRMED in blood, during the Civil War, that by the crucifixion of 600,000 dead, all men would be free. Those dead, more than the sum of all other American wars, need be AFFIRMED as the symbol that brought black and white together in our country.
We still have work to be done.
Whereas you might be right, we do NOT need to affirm the opportunity for all students to enter our educational institutions, our military, nor to intrermarry, intergrate neighborhoods, and sports, our entertainment, night clubs, nite life, advertising, TV Newscasting, etc.,... we still need to affirm equal opportunity of employment in the Trade Unions.
We need affirm America, too, as a people, now 150 years strong, a century and a half of intiating civil rights, living the truth of social equality. We need all say that we affirm a present white community which turned its back, a century and a half ago, on the tradition and the practices that went before, and, for a couple thousand years.
We need affirm America, and the Black community, both, now integrated. It is our greatest banner of success.
But, we need now affirm that the black communities are as safe and crime free as all other American Communities.
It is no little thing that Bill Bennett brought to our attention, that 75% of American violent crime would disappear, if we discounted the young black male community.
We need now work with the black leadership of men like Bill Cosby. We need now Affirm that no black community will suffer economic devaluation, no blackchild will be struck with a drug pusher's bullets, no small businessman will flee that neighborhood, no home will lose economic value, because of the crime rate.
Further, we must Afirm that no white American will fear liviing, buying a home in these intercities where taxes and home ownership are attractive inducements.
The black and white communities MUST affirm a better America by affirmative policies that need action.
