In my last post, I asked how one decided which is the most important political issue and who he/she should vote for for president.
I learned from my readings of the Bible to "Love thy neighbor" and that "I am my brother's keeper." So as a society, are we practicing His teachings in the political arena and in our individual lives? You can answer best about you own individual lives, but as someone who has been actively involved in politics and government for almost 50 years at the local and national level, I can assure you that society is not doing enough to live up to their values.
The ugly history of racial, ethnic and religious bigotry has been well chronicled and, in some cases, dealt with effectively. But "class bias" continues to be the unspoken mortal sin in
Liberal politicians pretend they don't see "white poverty" and conservative politicians pretend they don't see "poverty" at all. It's not just political callousness that is the problem in our country today, but hopelessness afflicting too many of our young people of all ethnicities.
In the U.S. Presidential debate I would plea with the media that one question in particular should be asked:
Too many parents cannot afford to send their children to non-public schools. Despite all the talk, throughout the years too many of our public schools are failing our children. Please don't tell me that putting more money into dysfunctional schools will solve the problem. I want to know if you will provide the required resources to allow working class and needy children to attend a Catholic or other non-public school?
But here's the key. The question won't get raised, unless you - the public - demand the media to ask it. Just as importantly, let both of the candidates know that you and your family are going to vote not on basis of party, but rather based on who supports your children's and grandchildren's futures. Remind them that they can continue to support public education, but you want them to support all America's children.
Please write, e-mail or call Senator Obama and Senator McCain and the media. You can make a difference. But you must start now.
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"tom" says to "zak" : "I sense, however, that your real purpose in pushing for a voucher system, is to get more children out of secular systems, and keep them ignorant of the debate over the inerrancy of the bible and facts about religions other than Catholicism."
"tom," where do you get off saying that? I read the post by "zak" and it is IMPOSSIBLE to have read into his comment your insinuation about his motives. Can you please explain yourself?
Liberal politicians pretend they don't see "white poverty"
That's an interesting assertion. I'd like to introduce you to a liberal politician named John Edwards someday. He's had a few things to say about white poverty, and has gained quite an audience.
I went to parochial schools myself, and got a good education. I also got beaten by nuns and cruised by the pedophile priests (we had two in my parish), but that's not really my point. The enrollment in parochial schools in my state - Delaware - grew rapidly throughout the 60s and 70s because of a particular reason, and it wasn't the quality of the education. Here's a hint: A lawsuit filed against the State of Delaware for racial segregation in the public schools was one of four cases that was consolidated into what was titled Brown v. Board of Education when it got to the Supreme Court.
The white political reaction, enthusiastically cheered on by the Catholic Church, to the remedy for anti-black discrimination was to build more private, parochial schools. (It worked! We had two black kids in my class. One was recruited to be the football team's running back, and the other a track star. Meanwhile, the public schools became majority black.)
Given the facts, tt makes me laugh to see some faux progressive religious types invoking classism and anti-white racism to justify taking my tax money to pay for their churches.
DonF.
Yes, the location of your friend and others in the state would certainly make the public school transportation hard if not impossible, especially now with the gas prices.
Mithras: "I also got beaten by nuns and cruised by the pedophile priests (we had two in my parish), but that's not really my point."
If that's not really your point, then why mention it and add to the smearing of parochial schools with your phony comment?
What a dishonest thing to do.
As for John Edwards, I don't think anyone finds him to be a credible witness for poor people in this country. Not with his lifestyle, his huge expensive homes, or his $2,000 haircuts. What a joke this guy is.
Our government is dead because it is a dying flame living in the past, when we have nothing left because we have sold it all we will turn to the people who have the real brains and steal from them use them and then toss them in mental hospitals like used husks, aka The Second Great Purge.We feed our intellectual superiors hate and lies and inferiorer positions because of there too curious nature or non mass appeal nature or un willingness to destroy individuality while we run in fear of invisible boogeymen for 10 years and create endless opportunities to destroy our own system from within all the while hiring egotistical elitists who keep there jobs as long as they don't ask questions. We launch campaigns convincing a huge part of our childrens population that they are sick if they can't stay in there seat and as our teachers get worse suprisingly enough our children somehow need more drugs, and the smart kids now don't have good role models are the ones who really suffer because creativity is geniune intelligence anything else is simply egotistical pseudo intellectual copy cat prose and accepted in the job market as a job and is disgusting we need more wisemen and less straight jackets.A college degree is something you can see and hear but you can't prove it is real in the sense of its value it is a hallucination.I could write something I know on a peice of paper and tell you I know it and you could say I don't trust you, but if i stil knew it and there is the internet why should i let a god damned outdated stone age college rob me for it, all college are outdated the internet is extremely underutilized in education and in its home schooling potential.
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