BLM Pins at AA
#241
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I thought we weren’t doing hyperbole? That was your criticism. No one wants poor schools for anyone. But, most people don’t want to pay a tax increase to properly fund them either. Not at the Federal, State, and certainly not the local level. Go to your next city council meeting when they discuss a millage increase of 1/10 to buy new textbooks and watch the retirees come out of the woodwork in opposition. Now some communities do value education, and strong public schools as they recognize the value of a well educated work force base as the manual jobs are becoming highly automated and they want to keep their citizen taxpayers at home and productive. But that’s the exception.
Regarding President Obama’s children: What would you suggest the Obama’s should do about the education of their children, children who received credible and actionable death threats on a regular basis. How do you keep them safe? How do you keep their classmates safe? You send them to the school that has the most experience in The District with educating and securing high value targets. That’s how. President Carter’s kids went to public school, true. It was a different time, and he was a different president.
Did President Obama do enough for education? That’s debatable and his administration is certainly open for criticism. His administration was not openly hostile to education and student safety as the Trump administration is. Thankfully, just about everything Cruella DeVos tries (I couldn’t help myself on that one, it’s so low hanging) to do is so patently illegal it withers under initial scrutiny.
Regarding President Obama’s children: What would you suggest the Obama’s should do about the education of their children, children who received credible and actionable death threats on a regular basis. How do you keep them safe? How do you keep their classmates safe? You send them to the school that has the most experience in The District with educating and securing high value targets. That’s how. President Carter’s kids went to public school, true. It was a different time, and he was a different president.
Did President Obama do enough for education? That’s debatable and his administration is certainly open for criticism. His administration was not openly hostile to education and student safety as the Trump administration is. Thankfully, just about everything Cruella DeVos tries (I couldn’t help myself on that one, it’s so low hanging) to do is so patently illegal it withers under initial scrutiny.
Innocent victims in the name of social justice. Still think BLM belongs at work?
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#244
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None of this belongs at work. Neither does showing support for political parties, your religious faith, police, military....... We should take an agnostic approach when on duty. Show up property wearing the uniform and just do your job. We sell tickets to everyone and on duty isn’t the place to make a statement. Talking about this at the bar or on a forum is one thing, but none of this should be at work. What do you think this is, the NFL?
#245
President Obama's children had secret service protection just as President Carter's did. I am not trying to say sending children to private schools is wrong. I am saying its wrong to openly oppose school choice for poor children while sending yours to private schools. There are plenty of charter schools that have nothing to do with DeVos. Often the schools with the highest spending have the lowest success rates (reference Baltimore). Charter schools are most times cheaper than the public schools with which they compete but have far better outcomes.
Baltimore is bad example regarding public school funding and effects. The city itself has so much going against it. There is no viable industry. At least not one that a city can capitalize on. It’s harbor is great, but too far up the Chesapeake to be viable for trade when compared to others, but there is some. Shipbuilding is gone. It is a city that has too many people and not enough poor paying jobs, let alone well paying ones. You. could throw all the money at Baltimore schools and it might not be enough. The city straits are that dire. I hope they can figure something out because it has some infrastructure. It’s like Boston with better weather — tasty food, baseball, history, and a little dangerous. And Boston has the Education, Science, Medical, and Finance Industries paying the bills.
I will admit that think education is important for our success, health, and growth as a nation. You can still be a plumber, or welder, airline pilot, or tradesman; but you should be a well read, and civically engaged tradesman.
#246
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The privilege of opportunity Americans still cling to rests on innovation, bounty, tithing and sacrifice. As well greed, brutality, deception and indifference. Visit the tomb. Consider how many families have been raised on a standard no other nation has yet rivaled, given its size and diversity. The fact is, things change. Not always for the better. But before you go tearing down all the monuments, recall that log entries aren't erased, only continued or concluded. My advice to AA leadership is to offer pin selections for other narratives, or concede unfairly advancing their own preference. https://youtu.be/UKDLQWEvubc
#247
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None of this belongs at work. Neither does showing support for political parties, your religious faith, police, military....... We should take an agnostic approach when on duty. Show up property wearing the uniform and just do your job. We sell tickets to everyone and on duty isn’t the place to make a statement. Talking about this at the bar or on a forum is one thing, but none of this should be at work. What do you think this is, the NFL?
#248
Peaceful protesters aren’t killing anyone. Peaceful protesters aren’t looting either. In Minneapolis, the Autozone looter was a white supremacist biker gang associate. Anyone using a peaceful protest as cover for criminal activity is simply a criminal. That has never been in dispute. However, attempting to conflate and combine the two activities absolutely is in dispute.
Are there people who profit off the racial imbalance in America? Sure. Candace Owens makes a living as a pundit. And as you pointed out, people donate to the NAACP, the ACLU, and other organizations as they are free to do.
As far as murdering police, that’s Veterans involved in the white supremacist boogaloo movement, not peaceful protesters.
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...ederal-officer
Of course, plain vanilla murder still happens everyday, and it’s still just as illegal and repugnant today, as it was yesterday.
Are there people who profit off the racial imbalance in America? Sure. Candace Owens makes a living as a pundit. And as you pointed out, people donate to the NAACP, the ACLU, and other organizations as they are free to do.
As far as murdering police, that’s Veterans involved in the white supremacist boogaloo movement, not peaceful protesters.
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...ederal-officer
Of course, plain vanilla murder still happens everyday, and it’s still just as illegal and repugnant today, as it was yesterday.
There is a reason support for the blm movement has free falled in the two months. But I'm sure you manufacture another story that it's all caused by those "bikers".
Got it, unarmed people being killed by an authority group is totally cool, but people speaking out about it is just too much.
Sorry snowflake, are you triggered? Need your safe space?
Yes white people get murdered. Yes black people get murdered. One of those happens to be disproportionately committed by persons of any color standing behind a badge. I’ll let you guess which one it is.
Black Lives Matter.
Regardless of what you think.
Sorry snowflake, are you triggered? Need your safe space?
Yes white people get murdered. Yes black people get murdered. One of those happens to be disproportionately committed by persons of any color standing behind a badge. I’ll let you guess which one it is.
Black Lives Matter.
Regardless of what you think.
You also don't seem to understand the meaning of what the word murder is. Cops don't murder
#249
The privilege of opportunity Americans still cling to rests on innovation, bounty, tithing and sacrifice. As well greed, brutality, deception and indifference. Visit the tomb. Consider how many families have been raised on a standard no other nation has yet rivaled, given its size and diversity. The fact is, things change. Not always for the better. But before you go tearing down all the monuments, recall that log entries aren't erased, only continued or concluded. My advice to AA leadership is to offer pin selections for other narratives, or concede unfairly advancing their own preference. https://youtu.be/UKDLQWEvubc
#250
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