infiniti@summerlands.com
Re: The Anti-Christ cometh... Malcolm X
Infiniti

Sat Jan 23 22:10:47 1999
You know, that title looks odd?  There's just something about it...*p*You know, I spent more time learning about Malcolm X in highscool than Martin Luther and Martin Luther King Jr. combined!?!  Mostly because he caused more trouble.*p*: : Yes, I heard about the Malcolm X stamp.  A Martin Luther *br*: : King stamp I'd buy, and use.  I'm boycotting the Malcolm X *br*: : ones.  However... I actually agree with some aspects of *br*: : segregation (I'm going to get sh!t for this one...).*br*:*br*: Which aspects, out of curiousity??  (No nasty dog poop until *br*: I get your context.  I may actually agree with you at *br*: points, and where I don't, I don't.  No poop involved, altho *br*: my 3 cats generate a lot of it...  Since I believe there are *br*: spaces that should be, say,women's only, it stands to reason *br*: that there are spaces which should be *whatever only* -- if *br*: the reasons are sound.  AND I reserve the right not to agree *br*: on specifics, and to go off and do my own thing.)*p*It's not as much segregation as returning to a smaller base, or community - such as in schools.  An example: The Kansas City school district was a magnet program that failed miserably.  The entire reason it failed was because the districts were too big.  Middle class parents, mostly white, didn't like their children being bussed across town to the be beat up.  That was all the schools were good for, and that could be done much closer to home.  If the school districts had been smaller the program would have had a fighting chance.  As it is, most middle class children are being pulled out of public school and being sent to private schools.  The districts are so blasted large because to make them as small as is needed would violate anti-segregation laws.*p*To continue the example: The Kansas City school district is in the hole a billion dollars.  Certain people that had no knowledge of what they were doing decided that a lack of money and resources was the problem, so urged the school district to spend more than it had.  As a result, Southwest Highschool (which is being sold to become a pivate school) is the only school I know of with its own planetarium.  Central highschool (a magnet for athletes) has swimming pools with glass walls so that couchs can better see a diver as they enter the watter, and indoor facilities for all hte sports so training isn't stopped for weather.*p*In the entire time of the magnet program, only one school has actually been worth attending (though I can't remember the name of hand).  It is a magnet for college prep, to which you have to apply to.  It has been taking children from incredibally poor families and sending them on to Harvard and MIT and those other big colleges and universities.  This school violates anti-segregation laws because of it's testing requirement, and has been protested against many times.*p*Southwest (a magnet for the sciences) is being closed for money reasons, and for practical reasons.  Though it had cameras, armed security officers, metal detectors (all of which were protested against because it "violated the children's rights"), a coach still had to wrestle a student with a gun to the floor in the caffeteria, and it didn't prevent a girl from being raped on the front steps as school was being let out.*p*Simply put, you have to fix a problem before you ship it all over the city.  And if the only way to keep an entire city from going ignorant is to reinstate segregation so the districts can be redifined, then I am all for it.  Besides, I can't be all bad, even Malcolm X wanted segregation.*p*If you should wish for validation of the above listed items, you can check the archives of the KC Star.  www.kcstar.com*p*Michael
Re: The Anti-Christ cometh...
Jehana
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Sat Jan 23 20:16:04 1999