Remi,
Back in the 1960's as I recall I was an advisor to our local college board
acting as laison between the manufacturing business community and the
college. My input during that time included my objection to the plan to
integrate the public grade schools without addressing the wide range of
cultural issues within the minorities groups. .Attempting to meld the
different segments of minority students into a totally new environment
could create a new problem that would defy a later solution . Within the
minority groups exists certain absolutes.. being .. total lawlessness, total
immorality, total depravity, total hatred, total malice, the criminal mind
personified. This group is a plague within the community that preys off the
rest to such an extent they dominate regardless of their small numbers. The
police will not enter these areas . My input was that this group must be
separated from the majority of the minorities that were seeking education.
My input was considered discriminitory. No amount of cautioning could
overcome the blind rush to " do something even if its wrong". The result was
the criminal element entered the classrooms along with the seekers of
education.
Coinciding with the downward spiral of the failed experiment was the rise of
the " angry black man" personified by national characters that profit from
maintaining turmoil. Had they used the strategy used by Texas A&M to blunt
the onslaught
of "aggie jokes" much backlash would have dissappeared.
The situation has spiraled down to the the point that classroom teachers
have become demoralized , indifferent and dropouts. Our small town has a
retreat center for teachers from across the USA. They suffer from burnout
and are sent to these summer programs hoping to reduce the teacher dropout
rate. More than five thousand have now passed through the courses. They have
heard it all, seen it all and experienced daily verbal abuse and violence.
What is missing in their attitude is any anger or hatred toward the ones
they hope to educate. They are perplexed by the treatment they have endured
and mystified by the indifference of the leadership in those communities.
I carefully study your comments and surely you have become aware that I have
given you some incentive to respond. My purpose has been to analyze your
comments and gauge your thinking process as an aid to my counseling our
company on employee relations. This has been my first opportunity to
communicate with someone articulate and with a background like yours, My
past attempt to engage a Muslim engineer was rather one sided ,yet
revealing.
As for my prejudice . I am a businessman and there is little profit in it.
If the white American was prejudiced, the minority would cease to exist.
Witness the historical genocidal action of nations of the world.
There is something unique about the USA and England . I hope you grasp the
thought as I pass on a clue.. study Ephraim and Manasseh and the gleaning of
the grapes.
As to my critique of your math.. examine your premise and lace your math
together with your descriptive information in a more simple coherent
presentation. You are very good technically, you can be much better. To
those that much is given, much is required.
Richard
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RC M. in short what was the solution to the problem back in 1962 when you
sounded out? Do you believe in integration? What were you doing to warn
them
that the project would fail or did you retreat into a bunker as most
people
without the strength would?
No judgment is being made (in the sense of ostracizing you). There was an
old lady called Mary Whitehouse who used to go on about all the sickness
on
TV (my school tutor was a lay CofE preacher). She was the Cassandra figure
but most of it came true. She had guts but suffered immense ridicule. At
that point most people turn old and jaded.
I think the ultimate test of integration is the "look who's coming to
dinner
test". When the babies come along even the most rocklike can change.
If you weren't trying to solve the problem in 1962, you were definitely
the
problem. Your view and that quote "there in NO solution" seems to state
that
the situation is unchangeable. In this belief system you would be prepared
to perpetrate all kinds of injustices. To me it's an either-or: *you are
the
wicked one* or you just haven't thought things through. But then...
Thatcher has a similar view about S. Africa. May be she was right and the
world needed to move along and the Cold War to end. Now the PC have
stifled
the debated and those saying the harshest things are locked out. I
remember
a S. African saying (I'm doing the accent :) "Look, de problem wid de
bleck
min is he can-not share power. Innit?" HE NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO SAY THIS. He
may be trying to help but he needs to act least he shows that he is
entrenched and not willing - he would then be the problem.
Also any comments about my work are much appreciated. What I don't find
useful is "you got a problem with the maths" where and precisely what
physical concept? Is the model getting in the way of genuine understanding
or experimental data?
It's a cop out, no use to me and practically all I've ever had from the
science establishment and the "non-establishment" and it's beginning to
piss
me off. I don't see any desire to discover or understand. To me it all
gets
phoney and I don't believe anything anyone tells me. Hence my current
disdain for the admin work I have to do right now.
Misquoting NWA "To a kid looking up to me, don't do science, it ain't
logical nor democratic". Sorry, we can't all rap.
R.
