This fucking quisling makes me sick. It's even worse because her parents taught at an HBCU and she's just fliting around, completely incurious as to WHY HBCUs exist in the first place. And she has to ignore the *obvious* import of what Tapper is telling her, which is ELEMENTARY AMERICAN HISTORY.
But yes if the says the truth then she'll lose even faster. Ugh!!
I started school in 1967, 13 years after Brown vs the Board of Education, which supposedly ended segregated schools in the South. We were living in Charlotte NC, a southern state, and there were no Blacks at my school. No Black students, no Black teachers, no Black administrators, no Black secretaries and no Black janitors. When we moved to Spartanburg SC, another southern state, in December 1967, there were a few Black students at my new school, a Black music teacher and Black janitors. Our district had an all Black school, Lincoln, for grades 1-12. True integration didn't happen until 1970, and went pretty smoothly. Too bad we haven't built upon that to move our society forward, but seem to be moving backwards.
I was in first grade in 1982 in a suburb of Chicago and a classmate asked me (I was the classroom authority for all things) if black people were allowed at our school. I was pretty sure they were, I knew that was something important, black people could go to school anywhere, BUT THERE WERE NOT ANY, and that made me pause.
We moved west to a wealthier suburb when I got older. Junior high was relatively integrated. And then I went to high school and had not a single class in four years with any of the black kids I’d known in junior high.
That’s the power of “tracking.” Rich “gifted” white, Asian, and Indian kids got to imagine they were smarter than any black people rather than that the system is literally set up to recreate segregation.
Nikki Haley is four years older than me. How she could not see that crap in action? How could she believe the system isn’t racist? It was so obvious!
“ and I’m so thankful they didn’t, because for every brown and Black child out there, if you tell them they live or are born in a racist country, you’re immediately telling them they don’t have a chance.”
The fact that Nikki Haley’s parents didn’t have to have ‘the conversation’ with her tells you how different the lives of Indian Americans are from Black Americans…
The magic of this fart from her privileged brain may be a little tough to catch at first: a black child is told the facts of life in this lethally, demonstrably racist country. That doesn’t mean he’s ALSO told there’s not a damned thing he can do about it, that once he’s warned, the parents say, throw up your hands, my child, you are doomed to be second class forever. And another thing, this birdbrain not only lives in a racist country, her roots are in another one. Castes galore, and she comes from the top one.
The same media that told us Hillary Clinton was opportunistic, calculating, overprepared and not likable enough, peddled this Koch-funded hack as a sensible, moderate Republican.
I would argue that if you’re not opportunistic, calculating, and overprepared, you have no business in politics. What matters is what you are opportunistic, calculating, and over prepared about. Those qualities can be utilized for the greater good just as easily as they can For personal gain.
“Haley contends that racism is only an issue if we acknowledge that it exists”. She’s deliberately being disingenuous. Racism exists (unfortunately), most of us acknowledge it exists (because we’ve seen or personally experienced it) and many of us are educating ourselves on how to be anti racist.
The only way you can bring "All men are created equal" into the debate is to say that groups that have historically been enslaved or otherwise marginalized have used the language that was originally not intended for them to assert their rights over the arc of history. There is no way that the "all men" of 2023 are the ones the Founders meant 250 years ago.
She may have just watched 1776 and not remembered whether it was unalienable or inalienable
This fucking quisling makes me sick. It's even worse because her parents taught at an HBCU and she's just fliting around, completely incurious as to WHY HBCUs exist in the first place. And she has to ignore the *obvious* import of what Tapper is telling her, which is ELEMENTARY AMERICAN HISTORY.
But yes if the says the truth then she'll lose even faster. Ugh!!
I started school in 1967, 13 years after Brown vs the Board of Education, which supposedly ended segregated schools in the South. We were living in Charlotte NC, a southern state, and there were no Blacks at my school. No Black students, no Black teachers, no Black administrators, no Black secretaries and no Black janitors. When we moved to Spartanburg SC, another southern state, in December 1967, there were a few Black students at my new school, a Black music teacher and Black janitors. Our district had an all Black school, Lincoln, for grades 1-12. True integration didn't happen until 1970, and went pretty smoothly. Too bad we haven't built upon that to move our society forward, but seem to be moving backwards.
I was in first grade in 1982 in a suburb of Chicago and a classmate asked me (I was the classroom authority for all things) if black people were allowed at our school. I was pretty sure they were, I knew that was something important, black people could go to school anywhere, BUT THERE WERE NOT ANY, and that made me pause.
We moved west to a wealthier suburb when I got older. Junior high was relatively integrated. And then I went to high school and had not a single class in four years with any of the black kids I’d known in junior high.
That’s the power of “tracking.” Rich “gifted” white, Asian, and Indian kids got to imagine they were smarter than any black people rather than that the system is literally set up to recreate segregation.
Nikki Haley is four years older than me. How she could not see that crap in action? How could she believe the system isn’t racist? It was so obvious!
That’s why magnets are pernicious. Tracking is good though. My wealthy high school was only 1-2% black but over half of them took some honors classes
“ and I’m so thankful they didn’t, because for every brown and Black child out there, if you tell them they live or are born in a racist country, you’re immediately telling them they don’t have a chance.”
The fact that Nikki Haley’s parents didn’t have to have ‘the conversation’ with her tells you how different the lives of Indian Americans are from Black Americans…
The magic of this fart from her privileged brain may be a little tough to catch at first: a black child is told the facts of life in this lethally, demonstrably racist country. That doesn’t mean he’s ALSO told there’s not a damned thing he can do about it, that once he’s warned, the parents say, throw up your hands, my child, you are doomed to be second class forever. And another thing, this birdbrain not only lives in a racist country, her roots are in another one. Castes galore, and she comes from the top one.
absolutely! The 'conversation' is about: OK, here's how things are...here's how we're gonna get through this"
The same media that told us Hillary Clinton was opportunistic, calculating, overprepared and not likable enough, peddled this Koch-funded hack as a sensible, moderate Republican.
I would argue that if you’re not opportunistic, calculating, and overprepared, you have no business in politics. What matters is what you are opportunistic, calculating, and over prepared about. Those qualities can be utilized for the greater good just as easily as they can For personal gain.
“Haley contends that racism is only an issue if we acknowledge that it exists”. She’s deliberately being disingenuous. Racism exists (unfortunately), most of us acknowledge it exists (because we’ve seen or personally experienced it) and many of us are educating ourselves on how to be anti racist.
The only way you can bring "All men are created equal" into the debate is to say that groups that have historically been enslaved or otherwise marginalized have used the language that was originally not intended for them to assert their rights over the arc of history. There is no way that the "all men" of 2023 are the ones the Founders meant 250 years ago.