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"Z. Nelom" <znelom@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3e37d9ea_3@news2.uncensored-news.com>...
> http://www.fredoneverything.net/RaceThoughts.shtml
> 
> What's A White Guy To Do?
> Disorganized Thoughts On Racial Nonfeasance
> 
>  By Fred Reed
> 
> 
> From time to time I get mail informing me that blacks
> are being mistreated, as for example by not being
> sufficiently represented among the ranks of
> athletic coaches, and implying that I should oppose
> such inequity. Regarding which:
> 
> First, I do not oppose racial discrimination against blacks.
> In 1965, I did. My view then, as now, was that the law
> should be racially neutral. But inasmuch as racial discrimination
> against me, as a white, is today mandated by federal law, the
> government acting as agent for blacks, I am hardly going
> to worry about discrimination against them. I think it serves to
> level the playing field.
> 
> Second, if I were dedicated to improving the lot of blacks--
> which, the laws being what they are, I am not--what would I
> do? As an individual in Mexico of course I couldn't do anything.
> But suppose I were president, or even dictator. What could I
> do? What would blacks want me to do? They seem to be
> unhappy because whites are not doing the right thing. What is
> the right thing?
> 
> Many blacks are functionally illiterate. Most cannot compete
> academically on equal terms with whites. Clearly (to me, at
> any rate) people who cannot read well, who have at best a
> rudimentary education, cannot hope to succeed on their own
> in a modern country. If I were trying do everything in my power
> to help blacks, an emphasis on schooling would seem to me vital.
> Am I wrong? Do blacks disagree?
> 
> But what could I do? Here I mean practical things that might
> actually produce results. If children are to learn, they have to
> do their homework. I can't make black children study, nor can
> I make their parents see that they do. It is not obvious how I, or
> any other whites, can get somebody else's children to read, study,
> and flourish.
> 
> 
> It isn't that I don't want black children to do well. It's that I can't
> achieve the result.
> 
> Nor is it that I'm unwilling to spend tax dollars to school black
> children. I would happily do it--if I knew how to get results. I
> can't offhand think of anything more important domestically. But
> nothing has worked. The country tried Head Start. It was a
> reasonable idea, well-intentioned, and worth trying. It didn't work.
> We tried compulsory integration. It didn't work.
> 
> What would work? Being white, when I think of improving
> schools I think of raising standards, hiring better teachers,
> adding advanced courses. Do blacks want this? The answer
> of course will be that some do and some don't. Most seem not
> to. With all the good intentions in the world, as dictator, president,
> or queen of the May, I couldn't make blacks want to study.
> 
> The illuminating question is: If blacks were entirely in charge
> of the schools, what would they do?
> 
> In many cities, as for example Washington, DC, blacks are
> in charge of the schools, which are terrible. Why? It isn't lack
> of money. Whites do not forbid blacks the purchase of textbooks,
> do not insist that they hire poor teachers. The schools just don't
> work well.
> 
> I derive no pleasure from this stagnant disaster, but neither do I
> see what whites can do about it. If blacks complained about potholes
> in the street, I would know what to do: Fill the potholes. If black kids
> were contracting polio, I'd know what to do: Vaccinate them. I simply
> do not know what to do about the schools.
> 
> A question that I have never seen asked, much less answered, is
> What do blacks want their children to study in school? As a white
> father, I want my offspring to study English grammar and literature,
> mathematics, chiefly European history with considerable attention
> to other parts of the world, languages, and the sciences. This is what
> educated white people do. It's how we are.
> 
> If blacks want the same, no one will discourage them. But do
> they? I don't know. Blacks are not European and may have no
> interest in Europe, or mathematics, or French. I have only passing
> interest in Uganda, so blacks may have only passing interest in
> Germany. If my children were required to study Swahili and Shaka
> Zulu for twelve years, I would object. Perhaps blacks object to
> today's curriculum. Were I in their place, I might also.
> 
> The question then becomes: What, specifically, do blacks want
> their children to study? Different blacks will want different things,
> yes; but what are the main currents? And how could I, if I had any
> influence, effect their desires? If black parents want a curriculum
> greatly different from that desired by whites (and I don't know that
> they do), I see no way to provide it other than separate classes
> or separate schools.
> 
> For that matter, do blacks parents want their children to go to
> school with whites? Do black children? I don't know.
> 
> Going beyond schooling, what could I do about conditions in
> the sprawling socially isolated slums of the cities? Curiously, I've
> probably seen more of the blasted urban heath than many blacks.
> Working as a police reporter has, if not its advantages, at least its
> revelations. The slums are ugly. Illiteracy is very high, unemployment
> the rule, crime a way of life, and existence without obvious point.
> I wish it on nobody.
> 
> But what am I supposed to do about it? From a black point of
> view, what is the answer? Here I'm talking about specific, concrete
> answers conducing to results as distinct from votes. What exactly
> could I, or any white, or all whites, do to turn huge largely illiterate
> populations into productive and happy members of society?
> 
> I just don't know.
> 
> It may be that there are some problems people have to solve for
> themselves, because no one else can. I'm not sure that picketing
> about the Confederate flag is the solution. It may also be, though
> I'm not sure, that today's free lunch of racial discrimination, though
> in the short term profitable for blacks, will in the long run be less so.
> The price of dependency is more of
> it.
> 
> Prices, like termites, are not always visible. Does president Bush,
> by his policy of racial favoritism, gain more votes from blacks than
> he loses in abstentions from whites? How would he know? Do blacks
> help themselves by deliberately antagonizing whites instead of requiring
> that their children study? How many whites are quietly sick of what has
> become not a quest for fairness but a racial spoils system?
> 
> I'm not sure. Nor, except as a freelance social pathologist, do I any
> longer much care.
>

Amen

Burt
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