imladris_elf

Affirmative action is only applied if you're Black, Hispanic, or Native. Isn't that even more racist than affirmative action already is? If it's designed to help minorities get ahead, why not other minorities? The Chinese were basically slave labor when they were brought here to work the railroads. There were some Jews who arrived with wealth intact, but many of them who came around WWII to escape the Holocaust came with nothing. The Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian, Thai, and Korean refugees in the 70s and 80s came with basically nothing. None of these people get affirmative action. Even though many of them started with nothing, there doesn't seem to be Jewish or Chinese ghettos. Why is that?

Isn't affirmative action racist in itself? It's basically Jim Crow for the modern day. It says to Blacks that they cannot get ahead in life without pity help. It's telling Natives that you perceive us to be less capable than others (I'm an Athabascan Native.) It's saying to Hispanics that we'll expect less of them because they're inherently inferior.

I'm going with Obamao. Different person, same dirty little commie.

What say ye?

While our resident affirmative action president (admit it, he'd never even have appeared on the national political stage if he weren't Black) has done quite a bit of damage, he's largely a puppet of schemers who wanted a figurehead they could control. The hildabeast doesn't seem to be controlled by anything but her lust for power. Honestly, I've never seen a person so devoid of conscience as her.

The USA is like a giant old oak tree. While strong, no storm or outside force can bring it down on its own. However, when it begins to rot from the inside the strength gradually lessens and the tree will eventually fall to the least breeze at the right time.

9/11 hit the USA while we're still a fundamentally strong country. While we're weakening all the time, we still have the world's healthiest economy of scale, and some of the best people to make things work. However, with the erosion of ethics and the destruction of our Educational system this will come to an end if we don't do something about it.

We are teaching our students to take and pass meaningless standardized tests. This kind of system has been forced upon us by greedy politicians who want to appear to do something to look good to voters but don't care about the harm they're doing. As a society we've lost much of the hunger and drive that made the WWII generation sacrifice and work as a team to make society better. At the same time, while our kids are learning useless test taking skills, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, and many European kids are learning Math, Science, and critical thinking skills. Without a change in this area, we'll bring ourselves down.

For now, terrorists cannot bring down the USA. However, our elected officials may unless we gain control of them.

Since 1950, the United States has been represented 93 times with a Nobel Prize in Medicine. All other countries combined total 67, with the United Kingdom leading the pack with 21. With the government taking over medicine, how long will it be before we take our place with Canada and Spain totaling 1 each?

What's the draw to someone who bites holes in your neck and then sucks out the bodily fluid? I'm just not feelin' it.

Which American musical band was the first to be allowed to perform in the Soviet Union?