Savant's Words

Allow the Christian Right to totally impose THEIR agenda, and we'd have a Christian Taliban. Or maybe something like the nightmarish "Republic of Gilead" pictured in Margaret Atwood's THENA HANDMAIDEN'S TALE

-Savant

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Equal justice in the courts, by police, in the job market. (A TON of research proves that). Michelle Alexander's THE NEW JIM CROW lays that our clearly also. And AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has done reports which show that the human rights violations against people of color continue even if under a different form than the past. Even a smelly racist white bum like you (Methed out and with tobacco juice running out your moth) can more easily catch a cab in Manhattan than I.


America is a racially and clsss stratified society. The assumption that people get what they whatever they have solely by individual merit is a childish iillusion; like believing in Santa Claus. But you have a childish mind inclined toward illusions. So no one expects you to understand social realities.

LOL! I teach Plato, Aristotle, Kand, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Sartre, and to both white and black and latin students. I'm a PUBLISHED SCHOLAR whose works are often taught in places like Brown, Purdue, Princeton, etc. I'm more familiar with Western philosophical thought than are most white Westerners; more familiar also with western history, Literature, arts, etc. Not too bad for an "uneducated " guy from the ghetto? But since I am "uneducated " Ohreally can't be just ignorant, but a stupid crustacean as well. 

-Savant

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http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/boston-sunday-herald-martin-king-discusses


A lot does depend on the state of the economy. But even holding for that factor, if you compare the level of unemployment and low income employment of college educated people and those with a high school education or less, the unemployment rate (or employment with low wages) is greater among the lesser educated. I've little doubt that had I not gone to college I'd still be trapped in the projects of East Baltimore, either unemployed or employed at low wages. The interesting thing is that even BEFORE the civil rights movement, the college educated Black man or woman were more likely to have at least lower middle class incomes than were the lesser educated. Even in the Deep South in our parents or grandparents' time, you might become a teacher, social worker, attorney, doctor, professor, etc. Of course, you'd be a doctor only in impoverished and segregated Black hospitals. You'd be a teacher in a poorly funded Black school, or professor in a financially disadvantaged Black college or university--and make substantially less than your white contemporaries with of similar educational and professional rank. But you'd still be far better off financially than the great mass of Black people, and better off financially than many white southerners (who were often dirt poor as well). Recall that Dr. King's college educated parents were homeowners in the Jim Crow South. And Daddy King paid for Martin King, Jr.'s education out of his own pocket. Angela Davis' college educated parents also were homeowners (Sallye Davis, a teacher, and Frank a businessman). While studying at Vanderbilt U I sometimes visited Fisk University and saw the spacious home the brother (whose name escapes me) who wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing." The certainly lived better than my unschooled parents and grandparents, which I guess is one of the reasons my folk were so elated when my little sis and I completed higher education. And notice again that I've not yet spoken of the cultural and other advantages of education.

-Savant