On The Equality Of Races

[Sneakiecat]

Re: RE: On The Equality Of Races

How you should be embarrassed to be anything other than an American.

How Islam is inherently evil.

How n-i-g-g-a is OK to use in reference to a student but n-i-g-g-e-r is not.

How the Japanese deserved to have an atomic bomb dropped on them for no reason.

How all Southerners are evil because their family may have owned slaves at some point.

And this is from one teacher. How old is this book that the information came out of?

Islam isn't inherently evil. It's the brainwashing they put into their kids heads. IMO though, all organized religions are like this. "sex before marriage is bad" says who? Your agenda may not agree with my agenda.

The Japanese deserved to have the bombs dropped because the US didn't feel that invading the homeland was worth anymore American soldiers lives. Japanese fight to the death, hence the kamikaze pilots. They simply WILL not give up, so we gave them a reason to.

Southerners... well, as with any 'stereotype' it's the actions of the few that make the whole look bad.

My final in the class was the Islam issues. I answered it wasn't evil but that there are a few that ruin it. No one in the class want to outright say that it wasn't because they didn't want to fail the class.

His reasoning for dropping the atomic bomb was that they are terrible people and we should have done it even if they had surrendered. This man felt we should have bomb Germany because they were evil, we should have bomb France because, well, they're French.

The sad thing was that this man was a Southerner but felt he was better than other Southerners because his family never owned slaves. Of course, he had no prove of this, he just knew it.

 

[White2000GT]

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The sad thing was that this man was a Southerner but felt he was better than other Southerners because his family never owned slaves. Of course, he had no prove of this, he just knew it.

But the fact of the matter is that not all Southerners owned slaves. It was usually the wealthy plantation owners because those were the ones who could afford to have them. My mother traced both her and my father's family lineage back to right around the time we came over here to America and there is no mention in any of the public records or personal records that she located of any slave ownership. There was also no mention of plantation ownership either. From what she could tell from the research she did, my ancestors were always of average or below average incomes for the time periods they lived in.

 

[Sneakiecat]

Re: RE: On The Equality Of Races

The sad thing was that this man was a Southerner but felt he was better than other Southerners because his family never owned slaves. Of course, he had no prove of this, he just knew it.

But the fact of the matter is that not all Southerners owned slaves. It was usually the wealthy plantation owners because those were the ones who could afford to have them. My mother traced both her and my father's family lineage back to right around the time we came over here to America and there is no mention in any of the public records or personal records that she located of any slave ownership. There was also no mention of plantation ownership either. From what she could tell from the research she did, my ancestors were always of average or below average incomes for the time periods they lived in.

What I meant was his family didn't own slaves but he assumed that everyone else in the South did own them. I know my family (well, my mother's side) didn't own any. But that didn't matter to him. Southerners were still evil for owning slaves.

 

[White2000GT]

Yeah, I know what you meant. Your teacher was an idiot for thinking that. Between that teacher of yours and the teacher that was telling his students that blacks have an extra calf muscle it makes me wonder what kind of education kids are getting these days. Is he still teaching as far as you know?

 

[Sneakiecat]

My little brother just graduated and the teacher was there. He taught my dual enrollment classes and then got sent to teach A.P. classes, which is when my sister had him. Most of the people in her class failed the test because he either taught them the wrong information or information that wasn't related to the topic.

 

[White2000GT]

A.P. as in advanced placement?

 

[Sneakiecat]

Yeah. The school considers A.P. to be below dual enrollment so he was "demoted." Of course, the advance studies programs took a lot of A.P. classes so it didn't help them.

 

[White2000GT]

Wow. Public school sure has changed a lot since I graduated. I've never even heard of dual enrollment. Still, your sister being in A.P. is nothing for her to be ashamed of.

 

[Sneakiecat]

Oh, it's not. She graduated 7th in a class of nearly 500. She didn't like A.P. because even if you do well in the class but not on the test (like she and everyone else in the class did), it didn't count for anything. But she had to take certain classes and they tended to be A.P.

 

[lemon]

doesnt ap give you college credit anyways? ... :dunno

 

[Sneakiecat]

Only if you pass the test. It used to be you had to get a 3 on the test but I think most places moved it up to a 4 now.

 

[lemon]

oh yeah... the test... i never took one... :lol

 

[White2000GT]

Me neither. Of course, I wasn't in any A.P. classes either.

 

[Atl Falcons]

Wow. Public school sure has changed a lot since I graduated. I've never even heard of dual enrollment. Still, your sister being in A.P. is nothing for her to be ashamed of.

Sure HAVE changed.

 

[robedwards99]

Wow. Public school sure has changed a lot since I graduated. I've never even heard of dual enrollment. Still, your sister being in A.P. is nothing for her to be ashamed of.

Sure HAVE changed.

WTF are you on dude??? White2000GT has it right.

 

[White2000GT]

Wow. Public school sure has changed a lot since I graduated. I've never even heard of dual enrollment. Still, your sister being in A.P. is nothing for her to be ashamed of.

Sure HAVE changed.

WTF are you on dude??? White2000GT has it right.

Thanks Rob. I guess public schools don't teach the difference between singular and plural anymore.

 

[Atl Falcons]

Wow. Public school sure has changed a lot since I graduated. I've never even heard of dual enrollment. Still, your sister being in A.P. is nothing for her to be ashamed of.

Sure HAVE changed.

WTF are you on dude??? White2000GT has it right.

Thanks Rob. I guess public schools don't teach the difference between singular and plural anymore.

No, he orginally had it right, but it should've been "public schools sure have". That's all I was saying.

 

[Sneakiecat]

Wow. Public school sure has changed a lot since I graduated. I've never even heard of dual enrollment. Still, your sister being in A.P. is nothing for her to be ashamed of.

Sure HAVE changed.

WTF are you on dude??? White2000GT has it right.

Thanks Rob. I guess public schools don't teach the difference between singular and plural anymore.

No, he orginally had it right, but it should've been "public schools sure have". That's all I was saying.

No, he has it right. You can refer to it singularly, as in the public school system.

 

[lemon]

Wow. Public school sure has changed a lot since I graduated. I've never even heard of dual enrollment. Still, your sister being in A.P. is nothing for her to be ashamed of.

Sure HAVE changed.

WTF are you on dude??? White2000GT has it right.

Thanks Rob. I guess public schools don't teach the difference between singular and plural anymore.

No, he orginally had it right, but it should've been "public schools sure have". That's all I was saying.

No, he has it right. You can refer to it singularly, as in the public school system.

indeed. when one speaks of the public school system, one most likely says public school. it is a concept that most understand. albeit, it aint most likely the best way to describe it, but that is the way it currently is.

* leaves grammar class - for i know nothing of such things *

 

[Sneakiecat]

Sadly, it seems like schools have given up on grammar. I know in my classes, it was assumed that we knew what they were talking about. It wasn't until Applied Linguistic this past semester that I learn what a preposition was by diagramming sentences that had them.