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Affirmative Action: Is it a Necessity Today?
Many people believe that Affirmative Action is needed in today’s society, I myself think it is no longer relevant or needed. At one point in time is was a great idea and a much-needed concept, but now it has become more dangerous than helpful.
What is Affirmative Action:
Affirmative Action was a measure that the United States took to ensure equality for Black Americans back in the 60′s. It was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy as Executive Order 10925,and later revisited by President Lyndon B. Johnson, as Executive Order 11246. Affirmative Action has been expanded upon many times in order to cover other categories of people as well.
President Johnson stated:
Men and women of all races are born with the same range of abilities. But ability is not just the product of birth. Ability is stretched or stunted by the family that you live with, and the neighborhood you live in–by the school you go to and the poverty or the richness of your surroundings. It is the product of a hundred unseen forces playing upon the little infant, the child, and finally the man.
In today’s society, I believe there is equal opportunity for everyone who strive towards goals, get an education, and puts in the work. I think people are confusing racism with lack of knowledge, skill, and motivation. Just because you grow up in the “Ghetto” does not mean you are stuck there. We see proof everyday of Minorities who are successful even though they came from poverty.
Al Sharpton and the other Race-Baitors would have everyone believe that Affirmative Action will always be needed. Why??? Because if Race Issues were to disappear overnight, they would be out of a job! Al Sharpton and others are keeping Minorities in the “Ghetto”. They don’t even live in the “Ghetto” themselves with the people they claim to fight for and care about. I wonder if any Minority person that supports him and others like him have posed the question of: Why they all live in affluent White Communities and send their children to Private Schools, and why they only come down into the “Ghetto” when there’s money to be made and a photo-op??? I know I have brought it up to many of their supporters and never get an answer…..
Al Sharpton and others aren’t doing anything to help build the Minority Communities up. In fact, they are tearing them down. They teach Minorities that they are not equal and the bar must be lowered for them. They teach that if you speak proper English, instead of Ebonics and are a “successful” Minority person, you are trying to be White; and that if you are successful as a Minority, you have forgotten your roots and where you came from. They stress and promote to Minorities that you are owed something for nothing, and you must rely on them and the Government to take care of you.
I myself tend to agree with American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author Thomas Sowell on this topic. There is a BIG difference between Thomas Sowell’s opinion on Affirmative Action and Al Sharpton’s, even though both lived through the same Era of Discrimination and the Civil Rights Movement.
A great example of how Affirmative Action can be dangerous when being applied today comes from my own state Arizona. Phoenix, AZ began to hire Life Guards that don’t have strong swimming skills and ones that can not swim at all, simply because they are minorities. The Life Guards they have already are all White and they felt “uncomfortable” with that. Judicial Watch covered this story on their own site and the Fox Nation website picked it up as well. National Review Online‘s blogger Andrew Johnson who writes The Corner also wrote about this story .
So… Are we now supposed to overlook safety as well as being unqualified in order to have Minorities placed in positions because of “White Guilt”? I think not! I myself am a Minority! I was born and raised in an area of town called Sugar Hill which is predominately BLACK! It’s also well-known for its Gang and Drug activity! I didn’t let my Minority status stop me from pushing to succeed nor did I/or do I need Affirmative Action to get me by in life.
People (of all colors) need to start taking more pride in themselves and what they can accomplish for themselves. If you don’t want people to think you are “Ghetto” or “Poor White Trash”, then don’t carry yourself in a “Ghetto” or “Poor White Trash” manner. Stay in school, don’t do or sell drugs, stay away from the gangs, strive for goals that will help you make something productive of yourself and productive in society! Hasn’t everyone heard the phrase of “If it walks like a duck…..”?
As for Affirmative Action… As I stated earlier, I myself think it is no longer relevant or needed!
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Up With People or Up with Communism……
Up With People Theme Song Lyrics:
It happened just this morning
I was walking down the street
The milkman and the postman
And policeman I did meet.
There in every window
At every single door I recognized people
I’d never noticed before
Chorus:
Up, up with people
You meet ‘em wherever you go
Up, up with people
They’re the best kind of folks we know
If more people were for people
All people everywhere
There’d be a lot less people to worry about
And a lot more people who care
There’d be a lot less people to worry about
And a lot more people who care.
People from the Southland
And people from the North
Like a mighty army
I saw them coming forth
‘Twas a great reunion
Befitting of a king
Then I realized people
Were a lot more important than things
Chorus:
Inside everybody
There’s some bad and there’s some good
But don’t let anybody
Start attacking peoplehood
Love them as they are
And fight for them to be
Great men and great women
As God meant them to be.
Chorus:
It stemmed from the ideology of a group called Moral Re-Armament (MRA). “The movement had Christian roots, but grew into an informal, international network of people of all faiths and backgrounds. It was based around what it called ‘the Four Absolutes’ (absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love) and encouraged its members to be actively involved in political and social issues. One of the movement’s core ideas was that changing the world starts with seeking change in oneself.” Moral Re-Armament (MRA) was an international moral and spiritual movement that, in 1938, developed from the American minister Frank Buchman’s Oxford Group. Buchman headed MRA for 23 years until his death in 1961.In 2001 the movement was renamed Initiatives of Change. “Initiatives of Change (“IofC”) is a global organization dedicated to “building trust across the world’s divides” of culture, nationality, belief, and background. The organization is committed to transforming society, beginning with change in individual lives and relationships.”
All of the organizations were based on getting all people together “helping” each other and “caring” about each other. They promote the idea that everyone is the same. They are not just talking about the US either, they are promoting this concept all over the world. Take a browse through YouTube and listen to their music! It breeds Socialist ideas and Communism in out young people! That’s why the group Up With People TARGETS the young (in order to tour with and be apart of the Up With People crew you must be ages 18-29)!!! Take this song that Up With People sings:
Lyrics to Up With People’s song “What Color is God’s Skin”:
“Good Night” I said to my little son
So tired out when the day was done
Then he said, as I tucked him in
“Tell me, Daddy- What Color is God’s Skin?”
CHORUS
What color is God’s skin? What color is God’s Skin”
I said it’s black, brown, it’s yellow… it is red, it is white
Every one’s the same in the good Lord’s sight.
He looked at me with those shining eyes
Well I knew that I could tell no lies
When he said, “Daddy, why do the different races fight
If we’re the same in the good Lord’s sight?”
CHORUS
What color is God’s skin? What color is God’s Skin”
I said it’s black, brown, it’s yellow… it is red, it is white
Every one’s the same in the good Lord’s sight.
“Son, that’s part of our suffering past
But the whole human family is learning at last
That the thing we missed on the road we trod
Was walking as the daughters and the sons of God”.
CHORUS
What color is God’s skin? What color is God’s Skin”
I said it’s black, brown, it’s yellow… it is red, it is white
Every one’s the same in the good Lord’s sight.
I used to love this song as a child, but as I got older, I realized that not everyone followed the same God as I had been taught to follow growing up. Also, people may be the same in the Lords sight, but as the human race, we are not all the same! We have many differences in the human race! Many different cultures, ideologies, religious differences, and just plain differences period.
The promotion that people all follow the same God and that people all the same reminds me of another theme song from a more present time, LOL!
Little Boxes Lyrics (Theme Song from Showtime’s mini-series called “Weeds”:
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same,
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same
And there’s doctors and lawyers
And business executives
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.
And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same,
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
The only people who will really take to heart the messages that Up With People, (and other organizations like it), are people who have the same thinking and ideology already. I don’t think the Muslim Countries will take any of this, run with it, change their religion, change their God, and change their beliefs. Nor do I think it will change any other Communist/Socialist Country because they already have Communism and it’s not working out to great for them. The Country it will change dramatically will be our own.
Organizations like these often look good at first glance, but once you start looking into what they are saying and the message they are spreading, they don’t always seem so good after a while! How quickly everyone seems to forget that Communism is promoted under the guise of helping people, sharing, and caring; even religion is used to defend Communism and Socialism. Communist and Socialists love to tug on your heart-strings and make Religious People feel it is their duty to do their “Fair Share” and give to those less fortunate over and over again…..
What people need to remember is that giving all the time, has gotten us in a real mess! Hand-Outs have hindered our society more than it has helped! Self-reliance and self-responsibility has gone out the window in our society because we have allowed Socialist and Communist ideology to take over and push too far. We have allowed Organizations like these to slip into our children’s mind that everyone is the same, everyone deserves the same, and that it is up to us to give everyone the same even though they aren’t doing the same work in order to get the same things.
It is one thing to help a person, it is another to have a society that is completely dependent on handouts from their Government because of helping ourselves into oblivion……
What do you think????
