Maine gov tells NAACP to 'kiss my butt'

[johnnycakes]

Re: Jamaican joined LePage household as teen

My thought on this is that it is not so much a race issue as it is a class issue.

The Republicans aren't so much racist as they are classist. They (marginally more than the Democrats) love the rich and hate the poor.
The NAACP fights for the social and the ECONOMIC rights of the largely disenfranchised black minority and as such are regarded as hostile to the government-of-by-and-for-the rich society that the Republicans fight to maintain.

The governor is reflecting that reality.
His adopted son might be black/brown but is not poor, not disadvantaged and I doubt that the governor thinks of his adopted son as anyone who would belong to the NAACP who are a bunch of " uppity trouble makers".

[lonewolf]

Re: Maine gov tells NAACP to 'kiss my butt'

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">According to his spokesman, Gov. LePage had made an earlier commitment to attend the funeral of a state trooper scheduled for Monday, the Martin Luther King holiday.</div></div>

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As the former mayor of Waterville, LePage regularly attended Martin Luther King holiday events in his hometown. But as governor, LePage says he has other priorities.</div></div>

http://www.mpbn.net/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3478/ItemId/14846/Default.aspx

Amazing, turn down a strong arm invite invite by the NAACP and you are instantly labeled a racist. If he would have turned down an invite from American Jewish League for Yom Kippur, would that make him anti-semetic?

The tactics the NAACP are using should be raising eyebrows.

[lonewolf]

Re: Jamaican joined LePage household as teen

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">His adopted son might be black/brown but is not poor, not disadvantaged and I doubt that the governor thinks of his adopted son as anyone who would belong to the NAACP who are a bunch of &quot; uppity trouble makers&quot;. </div></div>

Really? How do you know this? You take the liberty to post nonsense that you know nothing about.

How do you know that he was not disadvantaged in Jamaica? It's obvious that LePage has giving him more of an advantage in life by giving him the outstanding oportunities in the US and sending him to school for multiple college degrees.

You take something good and you make it look ugly.

[Tulip]

Re: Jamaican joined LePage household as teen

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My thought on this is that it is not so much a race issue as it is a class issue.

The Republicans aren't so much racist as they are classist. They (marginally more than the Democrats) love the rich and hate the poor.
The NAACP fights for the social and the ECONOMIC rights of the largely disenfranchised black minority and as such are regarded as hostile to the government-of-by-and-for-the rich society that the Republicans fight to maintain.

The governor is reflecting that reality.
His adopted son might be black/brown but is not poor, not disadvantaged and I doubt that the governor thinks of his adopted son as anyone who would belong to the NAACP who are a bunch of &quot; uppity trouble makers&quot;. </div></div>

I hear that many other countries are more classist than racist, but I don't think the U.S. has completely made that turn yet at least not when it comes to political parties. .

Most of the republicans in my region are poor as Job's turkey. I have to believe it's purely for spite because the policies they are supporting do absolutely nothing to help them, yet they continue laboring under the misconception that somehow non-whites are sucking up the majority of the resources from &quot;liberal&quot; social programs.

Now, there's no question in my mind that there are more wealthy people in the republican party than in the democratic party. It serves their interests better so I even expect it but I don't think wealth alone is not an equalizing factor at least for the conservatives. Do you think Palin would prefer to see her daughter as some broke white guy's baby mama or the wife of a wealthy black one?

[evanovitch]

Re: Jamaican joined LePage household as teen

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Do you think Palin would prefer to see her daughter as some broke white guy's baby mama or the wife of a wealthy black one?
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dis remind me of a Chris Rock joke....talking bout his naybahood he remarked how it took mekking millions to be able to live deh while him next door nayba is just a dentist...

mi know smaddy a go come an seh a dentist mek money but i am hoping dem see to wat he was saying.... but den again maybe i need to post di segment so dem hear di joke in context

btw the black guy Steele lose di wuk as the GOP head....had to withdraw as him neva mek di cut wid di early voiting

while elsewhere the newly elected tea party members of a southter city immediately revoked the school integration policy...again i would post di link but hey , it's 2011 we have a black man in the WH n a di said governor who made a derogatory remark aimed at said prez den complet di sweep wid one to the NAACP....

wateva dat organization mite r mite no do one coulld say di gov was on a roll n di direction was obvious ...

but we do know dat a yaad accent mek di diffrance dont we wid female nnow males

[Tulip]

Re: Jamaican joined LePage household as teen

I totally get it lol. Post the clip though if you get a chance. i want to see it.

[evanovitch]

then u have this going awn...ah sah

<span style="font-weight: bold">Tennessee Tea Party Demands School Curriculum Not Focus Too Much On The ‘Minority Experience’ </span>

Tennessee tea party activists presented state legislators yesterday with a list of “demands” for the 2011 legislative session, which opened earlier this week, including, “educating students [about] the truth about America.” “Neglect and outright ill will have distorted the teaching of the history and character of the United States,” according to a document the two dozen activists distributed to reporters. “We seek to compel the teaching of students in Tennessee the truth regarding the history of our nation and the nature of its government.”

What “truth” do these conservative activists demand be taught? Apparently it doesn’t involve portrayals of the “minority experience” or anything else that might taint their mythical hagiographies of the Founding Fathers. At a press conference, the activists said they want a focus on the “progress” the Founders and “the majority of citizens” made, to the exclusion of supposedly “made-up criticism” about slavery and the treatment of Native Americans:

The material calls for lawmakers to amend state laws governing school curriculums, and for textbook selection criteria to say that “No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership.”

Fayette County attorney Hal Rounds, the group’s lead spokesman during the news conference, <span style="font-weight: bold">said the group wants to address “an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another.</span>
“The thing we need to focus on about the founders is that, given the social structure of their time, they were revolutionaries who brought liberty into a world where it hadn’t existed, to everybody — not all equally instantly — and it was their progress that we need to look at,” said Rounds

It’s unclear what these activists think is “made-up” about the very real history of slavery in America or the very real intrusion on Native American lands by early American settlers.

This effort could be dismissed as a the work of handful of obscure activists in Tennessee were it not part of a much larger conservative attempt to rewrite American history without all the unflattering bits. Like their supposed reverence for the Constitution, when conservatives speak warmly of American history, they tend to pick and choose only the parts which reflect their contemporary world-view — and they are equally eager to sanitize the parts that do not.

The Founders should indeed be praised as visionaries, but they were humans and thus fallible products of their time. Any attempt to white-out the darker parts of their history does a disservice to the “truth” these tea party activists claim to promote.

[evanovitch]

Tulip here is the story...in NC

Republican school board in N.C. backed by tea party abolishes integration policy


By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

RALEIGH, N.C. - The sprawling Wake County School District has long been a rarity. <span style="font-weight: bold">Some of its best, most diverse schools are in the poorest sections of this capital city. And its suburban schools, rather than being exclusive enclaves, include children whose parents cannot afford a house in the neighborhood. </span>
But over the past year, a new majority-Republican school board backed by national tea party conservatives has set the district on a strikingly different course. Pledging to &quot;say no to the social engineers!&quot; it has abolished the policy behind one of the nation's most celebrated integration efforts.

And as the board moves toward a system in which students attend neighborhood schools, some members are embracing the provocative idea that concentrating poor children, who are usually minorities, in a few schools could have merits - logic that critics are blasting as a 21st-century case for segregation.

<span style="font-style: italic">The situation unfolding here in some ways represents a first foray of tea party conservatives into the business of shaping a public school system, and it has made Wake County the center of a fierce debate over the principle first enshrined in the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education: that diversity and quality education go hand in hand. </span>
The new school board has won applause from parents who blame the old policy - which sought to avoid high-poverty, racially isolated schools - for an array of problems in the district and who say that promoting diversity is no longer a proper or necessary goal for public schools.

&quot;This is Raleigh in 2010, not Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s - my life is integrated,&quot; said John Tedesco, a new board member. &quot;We need new paradigms.&quot;

<span style="font-style: italic">But critics accuse the new board of pursuing an ideological agenda aimed at nothing less than sounding the official death knell of government-sponsored integration in one of the last places to promote it.</span> Without a diversity policy in place, they say, the county will inevitably slip into the pattern that defines most districts across the country, where schools in well-off neighborhoods are decent and those in poor, usually minority neighborhoods struggle.

The NAACP has filed a civil rights complaint arguing that 700 initial student transfers the new board approved have already increased racial segregation, violating laws that prohibit the use of federal funding for discriminatory purposes. In recent weeks, federal education officials visited the county, the first step toward a possible investigation.

&quot;So far, all the chatter we heard from tea partyers has not manifested in actually putting in place retrograde policies. But this is one place where they have literally attempted to turn back the clock,&quot; said Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the NAACP.

School Board Chairman Ron Margiotta referred questions on the matter to the district's attorney, who declined to comment. Tedesco, who has emerged as the most vocal among the new majority on the nine-member board, said he and his colleagues are only seeking a simpler system in which children attend the schools closest to them. If the result is a handful of high-poverty schools, he said, perhaps that will better serve the most challenged students.

&quot;If we had a school that was, like, 80 percent high-poverty, the public would see the challenges, the need to make it successful,&quot; he said. &quot;Right now, we have diluted the problem, so we can ignore it.&quot;

So far, the board shows few signs of shifting course. Last month, it announced that Anthony <span style="font-weight: bold">J. Tata, former chief operating officer of the D.C. schools, will replace a superintendent who resigned to protest the new board's intentions. Tata, a retired general, names conservative commentator Glenn Beck and the Tea Party Patriots among his &quot;likes&quot; on his Facebook page</span>.



read dis rest yahso: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...011107063.html

[johnnycakes]

Re: Jamaican joined LePage household as teen

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: lonrwolf</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> [quote]His adopted son might be black/brown but is not poor, not disadvantaged and I doubt that the governor thinks of his adopted son as anyone who would belong to the NAACP who are a bunch of &quot; uppity trouble makers&quot;. </div></div>

Really? How do you know this? You take the liberty to post nonsense that you know nothing about.

How do you know that he was not disadvantaged in Jamaica? It's obvious that LePage has giving him more of an advantage in life by giving him the outstanding oportunities in the US and sending him to school for multiple college degrees.

You take something good and you make it look ugly.



Wolfie,
The kid might have been poor and disadvantaged when he lived in Jamaica but as the adopted son of someone who is now a governor and probably a well-to-do lawyer previous to that, I doubt that the kid experienced much economic deprivation of the sort inner city black people do AFTER he was adopted.
That's my point.
You would have to interview the kid to see how HE feels about the NAACP and the deprivation of blacks in this country due to classism and racism and how he feels about his father's refusal to attend, to get the bigger picture.

[johnnycakes]

Re: Jamaican joined LePage household as teen

Tulip:
Do you think Palin would prefer to see her daughter as some broke white guy's baby mama or the wife of a wealthy black one?

Tulip,

I'm not privy to Palin's thinking but she seems enough of an opportunist to come out as all for her daughter's marriage to a rich black man in order to make political hay.

Given the number of guns in her house and the fact that she's married to one of those loony separatists, I don't think that theoretical black baby father would get past the front door.
Bristol would have to present the baby as a fait accompli.
A normal courtship:, engagement etc would not be possible IMO.

If you're familiar with &quot;Blazing Saddles&quot; the scenario at the Palin household would run something like this;
Gabby Palin on the rooftop with his binoculars watching the approach of Bristol and her black baby father shouting down to the rest of the family:
&quot;THE NEW BOYFRIEND IS NEAR&quot;

[evanovitch]

Re: Jamaican joined LePage household as teen

how u know him send him to school...somehow i read dat di guy's golfing skills paid for his schooling...my man didn't adopt the guy so y would he be soooo generous wid paying alllll dem fees fi di multiple degrees....

i dont think sooooo

an dem keeping him silent n away from the press

[Gen]

Re: Jamaican joined LePage household as teen

Mek mi guh friend him pan facebook and ask him

[evanovitch]

Re: Jamaican joined LePage household as teen

weh him look like...

[Gen]

Re: LePage says he'll meet with NAACP

One picture on the Maine governor website-family section

[Derek]

Re: Jamaican joined LePage household as teen

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">weh him look like... </div></div>

Just like everyone else: two eyes, a nose and a mouth.