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- Path: sparky!uunet!optilink!cramer
- From: cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: ca.politics
- Subject: Re: WE're Beatrice
- Message-ID: <14068@optilink.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:30:17 GMT
- References: <74161@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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- In article <74161@cup.portal.com>, Arthur_T_Hu@cup.portal.com writes:
- > I've just heard radio clips that the head of Beatrice was a Black American.
- > I never knew that, and I still haven't seen coverage in the newspapers
- > here. Anybody got the full story, and like Rush LImbaugh says, how come
- > young blacks don't ever hear about this guy, only the tough guys in the
- > hoods. Sounds like this guy had the right ticket to fortune and riches,
- > not the losers that told NPR that they sold drugs because "the money's good",
- > admitted "yeah, it kinda destroys the race, but that's not my problem",
- > and "I've got a job, but I lookj like a hoodlum so I can't get a better
- > job". I also wonder about rap lyrics I heard on KPFA that "i'm going to
- > make you an orphan", homocide is my hobby, I have no value for life,
- > blah blah blah. What am I supposed to make of this?
-
- Because there are a fair number of African-American success stories
- out there, and a heck of a lot of middle class African-Americans
- out there as well. But if you talk about that too much, the excuses
- for dramatic expansions of governmental power and spending to help
- blacks wouldn't be so persuasive.
-
- The theme of "helping blacks" as though they were some sort of
- incompetent child, is what liberals rely on to continue feeding
- at the public trough.
- --
- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- "When freedom destroys order, order will destroy freedom." -- Eric Hoffer
- Not a goal, just a statement of reality.
-