Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "Actual Justice Warrior"
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Or black and Latino students could just do their homework and study harder?
I'm a former teacher.
Here's your homework: There's a free short story online by Kurt Vonnegut, takes less than five minutes to read.
The title? "Harrison Bergeron".
It's about this topic. Vonnegut saw this coming. Trust me, it's good.
By the way, when I taught in "Little Saigon" in Orange County (Huntington Beach Union High School District), half our students were Latino immigrants, half Vietnamese immigrants.
The kids of both ethnicities would start out in ninth grade with the Latino students able to speak English fluently, the Vietnamese students barely able to speak it at all.
By the time they graduated four years later, all of the top honors were won by Vietnamese students, including the schoolwide essay competition.
The difference was culture: Vietnamese families prized education and working hard in school, the Latino families did not.
I remember a staff meeting where a Latina teacher brought up the issue of why the Latino kids weren't doing as well as the Vietnamese kids (her answer: racism).
An older teacher, white and male, said: "No, it's because the Vietnamese kids work their asses off."
He was called "racist" for that, but he wasn't called "wrong".
The library was open after school for studying.
100% Asians.
I rest my case.
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A major tornado tore through some small towns in southcentral Kansas when I was a kid. The devastation was total and people lost everything.
The governor mobilized the National Guard to protect against looters.
The National Guard roadblocks stopped a convoy of trucks that were piled high with clothing, blankets, food, toys, furniture--not coming out of the disaster area, but into it. Not to loot, but to help, in any way we could. No one organized us to do this: we just saw our fellow Kansans in need and started down there. I lived in an area with a lot of Mennonites, the most charitable and honest folk I have ever met. They are an example to us all.
Not all cultures are equal. Kansas isn't the same place I grew up, but people there will still help you without being asked, and they will be kind about it, too.
On the other hand, Buffalo appears to have a lot of...Norwegian immigrants, as I call them...who only think of taking, never giving.
Not all cultures are equal. Before you hand over power to people, observe how they handle crises, because that shows how they'll act when they're in power.
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I was a public school teacher for thirty years, retired in 2021.
The parents used to be our allies.
Now, they're our enemies. Both sides are at fault in that.
I always taught in California schools, so we always had a ethnically diverse student body.
In the early 1990s, I taught at school that was 50% Hispanic, 40% Asian, 10% white. A Hispanic teacher said our standards were racist because Hispanic students didn't test as well as our Asian students. The white, male head of the math department pushed back, saying "Maybe their parents should make them come to school every day and do their homework if they're so worried."
Now, that same statement would get him investigated, publicly shamed, suspended, perhaps even fired. Now, no one dares push back against the "objective standards are racist" lie.
Congratulations, woke activists both inside and outside the school: you won! How does it feel, champ?
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"Just stay the hell away from them."--Scott Adams
Btw, black folks do this in other countries. They tried looting and burning businesses in north London in 2011, but those shops are owned by Sikhs, Turks, and Kurds. The Sikh men got out their sabers and stood 24/7 watch outside their shops alongside their Turkish and Kurdish friends--and none of their shops nor restaurants were looted nor burned. As Dr John Watson once said in "The Sign of the Four": "the Sikh is no man to trifle with."
The London police refused to take action against the black rioters because they didn't want to be seen as "racist", but threatened arrest against the men protecting their community--apparently, it's ok to arrest a brown man protecting his store but it's not ok to arrest a black man who's trying to burn it down.
What's worse than shoplifting, looting, and arson? White liberals who cheer it on, as if these black criminals are somehow "fighting the Man". No, they're just destroying their own communities.
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Wichita, Kansas and Lexington, Kentucky have taken the next logical step beyond this, giving free homes, no loan, with years of subsidies for home maintenance and paying property taxes, etc, but you have to be an illegal to qualify. I know, because my neighbors from Iraq in Lexington got a free house through an NGO that receives taxpayer funds--they rented out the house and stayed in their low-cost rental house (a local church pays 50% of their rent). In Wichita, Kansas, a similar setup, giving away homes for free, no loans, to illegals.
The people running the USA can't be clearer in their hatred and contempt for the legal, taxpaying citizens. Nancy Pelosi recently said on Bill Maher's show that the "solution" to millions of illegal immigrants is to grant them all citizenship.
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I know many black folks who are convinced they are descended from African royalty, i.e., "my ancestors were princes and queens in Africa." Apparently, only the nobility were sold into slavery, no commoners (that's the only way this claim makes sense), and all of the black people living in the US today would be wearing a crown if not for the slave trade. Also, I've spoken with a few, including my hair stylist, who claims that all of Africa would be Wakanda if not for the slave trade, a super high-tech utopia. I'm not sure how a continent that was many centuries behind Europe in technological development at the start of the Transatlantic slave trade would've managed this great leap forward, but let's not quibble about logic and facts.
I'm not sure why black Americans feel the need to indulge in substituting fanciful myths for actual history. It used to be that black people were proud that they'd remained strong through so many centuries of hardship, and felt no need to embellish or embroider the past. This mythologizing just makes anyone who believes in it look foolish and weak. Black people don't need to do this to feel proud of their own history, culture, and accomplishments, because their real history should be a source of pride.
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Target and the California Communists deserve one another, actually.
Last time I was in our local Target store, after not visiting for nearly three years, I was shocked at how shabby the store looked and how shoddy its merchandise appeared. The employees had the morale level of prisoners on a roadside work detail.
I lived in California 1993-2021. Left when I retired. Will never return. Californians voted for the government they have, and will continue to vote for more of the same.
I live in my home state of Kansas now, and it IS home, even though I spent nearly half of my life in California. The weather isn't as good as California, but in all other measures, my quality of life is greatly improved. I thought I'd miss California. I haven't, not one day since June 4, 2021.
(on edit: I miss Trader Joes, but not Trader Joes customers)
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