Killing a society softly
To this we’ve come, I can only say with a sigh and a weary head and heart.
You can belong to as many fringe groups your little heart desires and when you become a hero within those groups by killing a doctor who performs abortions, your conduct was the act of an individual; your own. An isolated case, if you will. The definition of “Terrorist” does not apply. Go home, already! (Yawn)
So I say…..
A truly horrible sight in education is seeing a potentially good classroom spiral downward out of control. The eventual demise may not be curriculum related. Chances are curriculum is the least of the reasons as is the amount of students in the class. It may have an even less degree to do with the cleanliness of the room, the air conditioning, the condition of the furniture or broken windows. In my opinion, it has to do with the teacher playing favoritism. That act which turns most students off like a light switch. Creativity is stifled. Motivation plummeted. Growth of the class dealt a death knell slowing emitting the smell of decay. The classroom dies and you can notice an immediate change in the atmosphere if another teacher and another class comes immediately into the classroom.
The teacher has put the kiss of death on the class by playing favoritism; The act of selective kindness and mercy. Prof. Jonathan Turley was on the Rachel Maddow show tonight. He told us the difficulties of calling the recent murder of Dr. Tiller a terrorist act and by extension the group or groups with whom he is associated can not be labeled “Terrorist groups!” or anything close. (Yawn)
There was a law passed - I do not know if it was Federal- wherein if a (Black) person were caught doing something against the law, everyone associated with him could be also punished for the crime. That was extended by our 4th Estate to a (Black) minor who went against the law had himself and all his friends being labeled “members of a gang!”
I am mindful of the *NAACP (National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People) in the mid- parts of the 20th Century being outlawed in some parts of the South but nothing was said regarding the KKK. I am mindful of the Black Panther Party in Californian and the MOVE party in Pennsylvania. All Black folks, mind you. There was no Prof. Turley espousing the rhetoric of “isolatism!” then. Sometimes I wonder why we Black folks even bother….why I bother. This society is hell-bent on committing assisted suicide by any means necessary.
As always,
BB
* NAACP Banned in Alabama (1956-1964)
In retaliation for the NAACP's role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Autherine Lucy's attempt to desegregate the University of Alabama, the state moves to suppress and destroy the NAACP in Alabama. At the request of state Attorney General (and later Governor) John Patterson, on June 1st a Montgomery judge issues an order prohibiting the NAACP from operating in the state on the grounds that it is not properly registered. The judge also levies a fine of $100,000 (equivalent to $725,000 in 2006) — a huge amount guaranteed to bankrupt a shoe-string civil rights organization funded by nickel and dime contributions of overwhelmingly poor Blacks.
The state claims that the NAACP is "not properly registered" because the NAACP refuses to turn over its membership list to the Attorney General. Given the climate of repression and terror, and the close cooperation between state government, the state police, and the Citizens Council & KKK, the NAACP refuses to surrender its membership list because doing so would result in economic retaliation, police harassment, beatings, and lynchings. (Organizations such as the White Citizen Council and Ku Klux Klan are, of course, not required to register or turn over their membership lists.)
For 8 years the NAACP fights this un-Constitutional ban in the courts. Eventually, in 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules in the NAACP's favor. The Court declares that forced disclosure of an organization's membership has the effect of suppressing peoples' right to free association and is a violation of the 14th Amendment. But even though it is later overturned, the 1956 banning of the NAACP drives the organization underground and cripples its activities in Alabama at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
For more information:
Web: Alabama vs NAACP
http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis56.htm
You can belong to as many fringe groups your little heart desires and when you become a hero within those groups by killing a doctor who performs abortions, your conduct was the act of an individual; your own. An isolated case, if you will. The definition of “Terrorist” does not apply. Go home, already! (Yawn)
So I say…..
A truly horrible sight in education is seeing a potentially good classroom spiral downward out of control. The eventual demise may not be curriculum related. Chances are curriculum is the least of the reasons as is the amount of students in the class. It may have an even less degree to do with the cleanliness of the room, the air conditioning, the condition of the furniture or broken windows. In my opinion, it has to do with the teacher playing favoritism. That act which turns most students off like a light switch. Creativity is stifled. Motivation plummeted. Growth of the class dealt a death knell slowing emitting the smell of decay. The classroom dies and you can notice an immediate change in the atmosphere if another teacher and another class comes immediately into the classroom.
The teacher has put the kiss of death on the class by playing favoritism; The act of selective kindness and mercy. Prof. Jonathan Turley was on the Rachel Maddow show tonight. He told us the difficulties of calling the recent murder of Dr. Tiller a terrorist act and by extension the group or groups with whom he is associated can not be labeled “Terrorist groups!” or anything close. (Yawn)
There was a law passed - I do not know if it was Federal- wherein if a (Black) person were caught doing something against the law, everyone associated with him could be also punished for the crime. That was extended by our 4th Estate to a (Black) minor who went against the law had himself and all his friends being labeled “members of a gang!”
I am mindful of the *NAACP (National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People) in the mid- parts of the 20th Century being outlawed in some parts of the South but nothing was said regarding the KKK. I am mindful of the Black Panther Party in Californian and the MOVE party in Pennsylvania. All Black folks, mind you. There was no Prof. Turley espousing the rhetoric of “isolatism!” then. Sometimes I wonder why we Black folks even bother….why I bother. This society is hell-bent on committing assisted suicide by any means necessary.
As always,
BB
* NAACP Banned in Alabama (1956-1964)
In retaliation for the NAACP's role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Autherine Lucy's attempt to desegregate the University of Alabama, the state moves to suppress and destroy the NAACP in Alabama. At the request of state Attorney General (and later Governor) John Patterson, on June 1st a Montgomery judge issues an order prohibiting the NAACP from operating in the state on the grounds that it is not properly registered. The judge also levies a fine of $100,000 (equivalent to $725,000 in 2006) — a huge amount guaranteed to bankrupt a shoe-string civil rights organization funded by nickel and dime contributions of overwhelmingly poor Blacks.
The state claims that the NAACP is "not properly registered" because the NAACP refuses to turn over its membership list to the Attorney General. Given the climate of repression and terror, and the close cooperation between state government, the state police, and the Citizens Council & KKK, the NAACP refuses to surrender its membership list because doing so would result in economic retaliation, police harassment, beatings, and lynchings. (Organizations such as the White Citizen Council and Ku Klux Klan are, of course, not required to register or turn over their membership lists.)
For 8 years the NAACP fights this un-Constitutional ban in the courts. Eventually, in 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules in the NAACP's favor. The Court declares that forced disclosure of an organization's membership has the effect of suppressing peoples' right to free association and is a violation of the 14th Amendment. But even though it is later overturned, the 1956 banning of the NAACP drives the organization underground and cripples its activities in Alabama at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
For more information:
Web: Alabama vs NAACP
http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis56.htm
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