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"Education and Children" (1862)
Monday, November 29, 2010
Why The Smartest Young Black Men Remove Themselves From The Trap of The Public School System
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"Oh Shit! ... GMO Food Sterilizes People ... And It's Really A Form of Population Control?"
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider - founder Club of Rome - The First Global Revolution, pp.104-105
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
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Were We All Kunta Kinte? Or Are We Also Mansa Musa?
Barry Goldwater 1909-1998
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
"It Is Easier To Change A Man's Religion Than It Is To Change His Diet"
Private Prison Industry
2,000,000 human beings in American prisons and counting
IS THIS LITTLE GUY A PERSON?
The founders of the American state understood that the proper functioning of a democracy required an educated electorate. It is this understanding that justifies a system of public education and that led slaveholders to resist the spread of literacy among their chattels. But the meaning of "educated" has changed beyond recognition in two hundred years. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are no longer sufficient to decide on public policy. Now we need quantum mechanics and molecular biology. The knowledge required for political rationality, once available to the masses, is now in the possession of a specially educated elite, a situation that creates a series of tensions and contradictions in the operation of representative democracy.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. P
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Louis Pasteur
"The Microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything."
Beverly Johnson. Beverly Hills. 1978
"Bra! Tell Me About It!"
"Most of the trouble I have had in advancing the cause of the race has come from Negroes."
Ted Turner - CNN founder and UN supporter - quoted in the The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, June '
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science On Society (Routledge Press: New York, 1951).
"At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state of affairs might be unpleasant, but what of it?"
Denmark Vesey For President 08
1. Troops Out Of Iraq Immediately. Like By Monday. 2. Money Owed To Haliburton and War Contractors Be Given Directly To The Iraqi People 3. Complete Electoral Reform 4. No Corporate Conglomerate Will Be Allowed To Control More Than 5% Of News Market 5. Federal Reserve Abolished 6. For-Profit Prison Industry Abolished
*George Orwell (1903-1950) English novelist, critic
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness... If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... The great enemy of clear language is insincerity... The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it... To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle... For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society will be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.” – Zbigniew Brzezinski
God Don't Make No Mistakes
Gordon Parks 1912-2006
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
Great Grandmother Harris
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7 comments:
Poor kids are more creative; that's why jazz and rap are poor kids' music. It's tough as a parent, especially as the father of boys, to find the right mix between giving and depriving my sons. I want them to experience things and have fun, but I don't want them to get soft. I want them to be hard, but not so wounded that they can't control themselves. I want them to have enough anger to destroy running backs, but I also want them to be able to debate politics, economics, etc. The Qur'an has a lot of Guidance on these topics.
"be" the example J....
"Poor kids are more creative;"
Ummm.
That's an interesting statement.
Made me think ...
If a kid is truly "creative" ... can he actually be "poor"?
What greater wealth is there than creativity?
I think the "poor" kids are the obese uncreative children of the petit bourgeois whose parents dutifully deliver them to institutions to be shaped, guided, molded and ultimately fucked up.
Just because a kid is sitting in a car seat in the back of an SUV watching a DVD does not mean he is not "poor".
Kids whose parents have degrees from universities but still feed their kids GMO, shoot them full of vaccines and cripple them with play-dates are far more poor than kids selling dime bags, competing for market share and manifesting swag.
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Wow. Thank you Anonymous.
Appreciate the encouragement.
Are there test to measure creativity? How can we assume there is a correlation between economic status and creativity? Poor kids are not necessarily "more" creative. I've seen very well-to-do potheads come up with the most ingenious ways of smoking ;). But seriously creativity and what defines it is very subjective.
Poor kids may be forced to be more creative.
But many 'poor kids' today are not even close to being poor.
Back in the day being poor meant that one had old shoes and clothes, ate sparingly, walked or rode bikes to get somewhere, played outside, read instead of playing video games, etc.
Back in the day there was a perceived impetus to remove oneself from these conditions.
School breakfast and lunch, free buss passes, govt. housing, WIC, Foodstamps, Medicare, Free phone service (Cell and homwe) etc. - Many of today's poor are so pampered that they will be more comfortable than many working people.
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