Letters to the Editor
david sugarman
Published Letters: 2385 Editor's Choice: 3
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i find myself with the same feelings as "AreaMan"
[Read the article: A neocon primer: Regime change in 18th-century India]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]we're talking about the period of 1600-1870. look at what the UK produced in those years! shakespeare, austen, blake, dickens; modern democracy; ending of slavery for the first time; newton,darwin,maxwell; coal,steam,steel. now what *would* have another oppressive autcratic moslem state have produced in the same time period. (no, you can't *actually* go back and change things, but the best guess, since it was before, and remained after, is... stagnancy).
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this is really funny! they didn't WIN!
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]they LOST! (yes, stringer won the victim of the year award, does that count?)
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TRUE victims
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]the tennessee team (who were black too) which had its victory stolen via stringer's sobs and corzine who attempting to "mediate" between stringer and imus (did they *need* a referree? was imus going to bring bats?), got into a car crash and broke a LOT of bones (*he's* going to remember stringer and imus for a LO-ONG time)
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that point about stringer and cheerleading, bybee4
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]reminded me of something. my daugher was on the track team. an "asian" girl cried discrimination ["asia" goes from haifa to haiphong, is that an instance of middle kingdom imperialism? yellow supremacy?]. my daughter merely said "wanna race?" and that was that. speed is an easy thing to judge, no one would suggest that since china accounts for 1/6 of the world's people it deserves 1/6th of the places. everything else is difficult. there *is* discrimination and there *are* differences in ability and *tests* can only suggest, not predict. as far as stringer's cheerleading career goes, might i suggest UGLY. (there's an american black saying, "beauty's only skin deep, but UGLY goes to the bone").
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cbarney1, you are both very clever and very creative, an unusual combination
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](ok, it's just your two posts and just in this forum, but that doesn't really matter). i'd really have to go back and *read* his article, which i don't want to do, so i'll assume that you are correctly interpreting his position. [you see, i come here to *learn* and maybe, hopefully, to *teach*, everyone trading thoughts and experiences. if i *know* (or think i know) those, i can safely ignore them(him/her). and so i've ignored kaufman.] that said, i've noticed something. true, they can only be guesses(excepting me and kaufman,of course), but we all try and guess who's talking. i think kaufman has been responding to two categories, black and/or female.[at one time i thought you might be a black woman - i make provisional guesses]. ok back to the courtroom. if i'm correct, kaufman WOULD NEVER say that. Walsh, his boss, is a woman and it's a *thing* with her. no slurs there. and blacks? his field is *dominated* by black people. one slur and the whole career is over. kaput. now what would happen if he *did* say that? and only Walsh caught him? i think a period of "chinese reeducation" would be in order. but i think she would eventually forgive him. but had it slipped out? even if she wanted to, walsh couldn't risk it. she'd have to let him go. yes, said in just that way, sadly. it would really offend far too much of her "constituency". there are other places that it wouldn't. not many. the aryan nations web site? yes. not many other non-black or non-female places. i wonder if black female rappers could get away with it? certainly in anger, but as a joke? maybe not. if you are a black female, maybe you'd know, maybe you wouldn't. what slurs *would* kaufman be allowed to get away with? not many. a review of the munich massacre would be carefully vetted to delete all anti-palestinian slurs. if he went totally crazy and ascribed it to a zionist plot (similar to the widely believed (in the moslem world) that the jews caused 9/11) i think it would be allowed. (he'd get a LOT of flak from ME for that). post more often, i like the originality in your train of thought.
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there are two *black* americas, "unwilling"
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]one, you've just heard on TV and in this forum. they are middle class whose main concern is the usual, money, success, family, and who have daily interaction with whites - with whom their main concern is respect. the other is a poor, uneducated, jailed population whose fathers don't raise their sons. the mothers do the best job they can but many seem to be "raised" by neighborhood gangs - in absolute loyalty and nihilism. it's always a minority - but even a minority can cause tremendous harm. in relation to white statistics, there's an epidemic of murder and rape in the black community - if you can *call* it a community, trying to better it labels you a "snitch" and you get killed. no one talks. the black on white crime is much greater than the white on black crime, but it's *far* worse with black on black. that's why *everyone* wants to get out of the ghetto. basically white (and middle class black) america have walled off the ghetto, both in space and in mind. it's an abscess, walled off it's safe, in the bloodstream, it kills. sharpton, jackson, stringer have good jobs, but how many of those are there? selling drugs makes good money, but you lose your life with murder, addiction or prison. i think the best thing america could do would be to stop the emprisonment for drug dealing. these young men need to be raised by parents not gangs. particularly fathers. even a bad father is better than no father. now, what should *black* people do? what they've done. think about their families. get out of the ghetto. try and deal with white folks.