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You have it ass backward, Little Bobbie. It is the Marxists who always play the race card. BLM, for example, was organized by a group of women who admit on video that they are "trained Marxists".

Commented: Sunday, December 10th, 2023 @ 1:37 pm By: Rino Hunter

"Systemic Racism" is the Woke term from "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" - Bill Shakespeare.

Commented: Sunday, December 10th, 2023 @ 12:39 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Being a decent human being doesn’t make you a Marxist.

Commented: Sunday, December 10th, 2023 @ 9:32 am By: Big Bob

"Systemic racism" is a Marxist myth pushed by Marxists and Marxist groups, and it is part of the Marxist concocted "Crtical Race THeory" You out yourself as to what you are, Bolshevik Bob, when you use that radical ideological term.

Commented: Sunday, December 10th, 2023 @ 8:28 am By: Conservative Voter

Even though I was young and born into it, I benefited from and still benefit from systemic racism that is part of our country. It doesn’t take 5000 words to say I’m sorry and will do better.

Commented: Saturday, December 9th, 2023 @ 6:15 pm By: Big Bob

Bob, you fully qualify for what Margaret Thatcher called the "loony left", always keen on the agenda and the narrative no matter who it hurts.

The 70/30 court order and social experiment from Judge McMillan on Mecklenburg County Schools was a negative to everyone in the school system. The ones I felt sorry fot the most were the rural blacks who had been happy at our high school and felt a part of it. When the inner city students from Second Ward High School were bussed in, bringing with them a huge amount of bitterness over the closing of their own school, and not wanting to be at South Mecklenburg, they particularly resented the rural black students already there who fit in. The bitterness of those Second Ward students also made their own experience quite a negative one.

White students, unless they happened to be on the receiving end of one of the assaults, had significant but lesser negative impacts than those two groups of black students. We had to endure the racial demonstrations / riors / walkovts and bomb threats that disrupted everyone's education, and the loss of our school traditions and senior priveleges due to an administration paranoid that anything would create more racial division. But as a group, those rural black students, who were walking on eggshells due to the resentment of the Second Ward black students who had it worst. The Second Ward students did not get over their bitterness at being there the whole year and that marred their own experience.

One example of the rural black students feeling the hear was that in my first two years at SouthMeck, the football players, black and white had their own area in the New Cafeteria where they ate lunch together. This was not anyting official, just that as team mates they liked to eat together. After bussing, the black football players, all from the group of rural blacks, stopped eating with their white team mates because they wanted to avoid friction from the Second Ward students.

They still had a commaderie but were afraid to show it too publicly. However, when my best friend in high school, Mike, got jumped by a group of Second Ward students early one school day, it was a group of rural blacks, led by one of his football teammates who rescued him.

From personal experience that first year of Judge McMillan's readical busssing order, it was clear that nobody's educational situation was improved, and indeed quite the opposite. If they had bothered to consult the actual students who had to live under that order, they would have heard from both the blacks and the whites that it was a very bad idea.

Commented: Saturday, December 9th, 2023 @ 5:35 pm By: Steven P. Rader

This stands to reason that if one, perchance, gets stabbed about 20 times while in prison, it is a good idea that one NOT be a fentanyl addict, high of fentanyl at the time of the multiple stabbings, with two partially blocked arteries.

Sadly, one just might just discover that 'they can't breathe.'

Commented: Saturday, December 9th, 2023 @ 12:37 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Jann and Countrygirl1411: Absolutely in Agreement. In this RINO Rich area, in these RINO Rich times, I always say: Examine the candidate, examine your conscience, and vote for your Republic.

It almost never fails for me and my wife.

Commented: Saturday, December 9th, 2023 @ 7:47 am By: Stan Deatherage

I was one of the guinea pigs on your sides social experiment on massive forced bussing, Bob. The school system I attended was the defendant in that lawsuit and it brought chaos to my senior year in high school as we were the first impacted. Judge James McMillan broke with previous law with a radical new ruling.

When I started at South Mecklenburg High School in 1968, we had a black community in Pineville, NC and a number of rural black communities in our attendance zone, and they made up a bit under 15% of the student body. Black and white students got along well and we had no problems.

McMillan's ruling required all schools countywide to have an arbitrary ratio of 70% white and 30% black. South Mecklenburg lost a few of the black communities in rural areas that had attended the school, and had a massive influx of students from the Second Ward High School in central Charlotte, which was closed and the students bussed a long distance to our school (and some bussed to other high schools).

The students from Second Ward did not want to be at South Mecklenburg. When our coaches tried to recruit their top athletes for our teams, most of them refused to play for SouthMeck. There was a well organizaed "student government in exile" among the Second Ward students who demanded their high school be reinstated and themselves returned there. A number of prominent black businessmen and professionals who had been involved in Second Ward's alumni organization publicly quit the NAACP blaming them as the lawsuit plaintiffs for the loss of their school.

At the other predominantly black high school, West Charlotte HS, which remained open, there was an assembly held to tell students where they would be bussed to the following school year. The students responded with loud boos and walked out of the assembly in protest. The radical activist Judge McMillan never bothered to ask actual black students where they wanted to go to school.

My senior year, when the forced bussing came in, was absolute chaos. Bomb threats, race riots, racial assaults, and similar problems were a common occurence, things that never happened my first two years of high school. The blacks who had been going to SouthMeck and those bussed in from Second Ward were constantly at loggerheads, and sometimes physical fights broke out between the groups. Those bussed in, who did not want to be there, resented those who felt at home at SouthMeck.

Serving on the Interclub Council, my junior and senior years, all of our clubs saw a big falloff in participation. While the blacks from Pineville and the rural areas still participated, there was almost no participation from the newcomers from Second Ward. Part of that may have been their long distances to home made afterschool activities impractical, but part of it was they did not feel a part of our school and resented being sent there.

Race relations took a huge nosedive from Judge McMillan's radical social experiment. I particularly felt sorry for the black students who had been part of our school before bussing being treated so badly by the Second Ward newcomers.

And, Bob, our schools were in full compliance with what the law was prior to McMillan's radical ruling, but he changed the law on us and everyone else.

Commented: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 10:53 pm By: Steven P. Rader

NC wasn’t in compliance until 1971.
My point, we dished it out. A little accountability won’t kill you.

Commented: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 8:01 pm By: Big Bob

Nikki Haley lost me when she had establishment Republican Paul Ryan, who is liberal on a number of issues, trying to get endorsements for her. If Paul Ryan is for someone, I am NOT!

Commented: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 9:29 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer