Hollywood: Why movies like "Redacted" don't do well. Hollywood, ever adept at plying unwilling audiences with its unimaginative and horribly one-sided world-view, deserves this en masse shunning. The audacity Hollywood possesses to re-imagine and re-invent history in an effort to win, what they think as, largely ignorant masses to its point-of-view is galling, to say the least (and for those who do get their messages from TV or movies, shame on you). It's as almost as shameful as the current writers' strike. Writers who pump out crap and those who cross the picket line show us the colours we all know are true. People should pick up the habit of reading.
Afro-centric Schools: Some civil rights activist is spinning in his grave with this idea. If a "whites-only" school would make one's skin crawl, then this proposed act of segregation should make one stop paying taxes altogether. The way to address the failure of black students to succeed (apparently mostly boys) is not to segregate students according to skin colour but to ask questions that will, no doubt, reveal some shameful truths. What are the student's study habits? How involved are the parents? Are the teachers working hard to ensure the student does his best? Are there adequate educational materials? Is the desire to learn there? You can put a student in any school but if their parents are uninvolved, their teachers do the minimum, necessary learning materials are out-dated or simply not there, and the student does not care, the outcome will be the same. Why anyone would think this would bridge a cultural or educational gap is beyond me. It would be Crown-sanctioned bigotry and another waste of taxpayer's money.
RCMP Shooting: Another senseless loss of life, another reason why guns and booze don't mix.
China: Torturers and poisoners extraordinaire are "asking" visitors to bring only one Bible so as not inflame the hidden Christians into demanding their rights before being arrested and made to make lead-laced toys for American children. I would bring one huge Bible, the ones they might use for the visually-impaired, and plank it right up over Mao Tse Tung's fat-faced portrait.
They said I could bring one.
You want trouble, you got it.
You want a cuddly hedgehog, you also got it.
4 comments:
MEW!
George Wallace would be happy about that schools suggestion, wouldn't he? He would give a rousing speech about how black and white both want segregation/separation and what does what it matter who believes they are superior/inferior to the other group. There is not the extensive and prolonged history of deliberate disenfranchisement of the black community in Canada, as there is in the United States. This means, therefore, that there is NO historical justification for providing special training/social programs/perks/entitlements to Canada's black community, most of whom have not been more than 20-30 years. Sorry if it sounds Darwinian, but adjust and adapt to life as it is now w/o crying for preferential treatment. So many "groups" have their hands out for what's not really theirs to begin with that there is really nothing more left to give.
You want your own schools? Pay for them yourselves. If you can't do so, then I guess you should have GD well known better than to ASK for them.
China and Hollywood as offensive and disgusting cretins? That is so EASY to agree with and verify, that I won't add to your words here.
Why in the world would we even hold the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
Pick a different place! It's not a Survivor episode!
And I have no sympathy for the striking writers. What I wouldn't do for that job. They are overpaid, have no talent, they are all in their 20's and work in Hollywood, only because they are related to someone somewhere in the business.
Boo and yeah to both comments. No one should be receiving handouts for perceived wrongs. They will not right the situation. As for Hollywood writers, they can stick it in their hack-writing ears.
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