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"E.C Smith" way.com> wrote:
> "Odious"
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>> "E.C Smith"
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>> news:1yRsk.70822$TO6.1385@newsfe11.ams2...>>> "Odious"
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>>>>>>>> Are you suggesting that "evil Whitey" stole the knowledge out of
>>>>> their brains and they haven't been able to get it back?
>>>>
>>>> Actually, yeah... that's how imperial control works. Controling
>>>> education. It only takes a few decades to virtually irradicate
>>>> literacy from a population, let alone knowledge of how to build a
>>>> nation.
>>>
>>> Can you provide an approximate date for when this "irradication of
>>> literacy" took place in Africa and which nation implemeted it?
>>
>>
>> Are you retarded? Can you not follow a simple line of logic from
>> the beginning of a statement to the end?
>
> Can you not answer my question?
>
>> I was pointing out the ease with which literacy can be irradiated,
>
> If it's easy to irradicate then surely it should be easy (3
> generations at most) to reinstate..
Destroying is far easier than building. Ask anyone who has survived a
category 5 hurricane.
Hiroshima took centuries to build and less than a minute to destroy
with an atomic bomb. It took far more than 60 seconds to restore
Hiroshima.
It only took a couple of hours to destroy the World Trade towers. Did
it only take a couple of hours to build?
If you create 3 generations of people who are unable to read, and then,
to prove their worth as human beings, expect them to become Rhodes
Scholars with only the most reluctant of assistance from those who were
responsible for making those people illiterate--Eisenhower had to call
in federal troops to allow black children to attend schools originally
designated for white-skinned persons only.
As late as 1994, I saw first-hand racist policies in education: whites
(still living in plantation-style houses) getting property tax breaks
if they sent their child to the local private school, while blacks
(still paying rent in slums on the other side of the railroad tracks)
were unable to afford the tuition payments to the private school. So
the public school system suffered from a severe lack of money When one
black attorney finally was able to jump through all the loopholes to
get his son enrolled in the previously all-white private school, 1/3 of
the students in the private school left and formed another private
school in protest.
> Why the continual gap between whites and blacks even at the same
> schools?
Because the damage done is very hard to undo. Centuries of slavery,
combined with another century of sharecropping, created a climate where
little was expected of people of color other than physical labo
--unless
one was talented enough to entertain Whitey through music or athletics.
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