Wonderful Thunder-CLAP last evening… but not a huge rain. Quite spotty I hear. Some folks have drought.
Today we have one of those veeeery innnnterestink tings that puzzle our minds and hearts from time to time. Probably most of you aren’t old enough to remember “Ike” the President – General Eisenhower – ordering troops to Alabama to see some ‘colored’ children safely to school – and Governor George Wallace fulfilling his pledge to ‘stand in the schoolhouse door’ to prevent them from coming in.
Well, he did – but was not successful – and the bleeding wound in race relations in the South had to endure another couple of decades of strife and busing and all that accompanied that – along with other irritations and conflicts both real and imagined in parts of the Union that were not the South. The echoes of the problems then, still bounce off the halls of Congress to this day and I suppose will for some time to come. Nothing seems as simple as one might hope.
In any case the ‘colored’ kids who are suffering from present day discrimination including less than adequate education, are not all located in the South… indeed I saw a TV program this very week in which the school children in Hawaii were re-examining along with their teachers and the State government just what was/is wrong with accommodating the English language as ‘she’ is spoke – there in the beautiful Pacific Islands. People who grew up with ‘pidgin’ keep asking the question what’s wrong with ‘our’ English.
Today I read a long piece in the sports pages (including the front page of the Wall St. Journal) about the difficulties encountered by sportscasters when broadcasting Olympic basketball games – which are avidly followed in Spanish-speaking parts of America and the world – where the announcers are sometimes yelling and screaming at one another for using the *wrong* “Spanish” word to describe a cross-dribble, or a ‘slam-dunk’ or at least another dozen or so phrases and words ‘borrowed’ from more localize Spanish-speaking audiences to convey the ‘proper’ meaning (as judged by the local speakers.)
Shoot… even in English (as she is spoke) in the good old
To take the “protest” path is to guarantee yourself a long, uncomfortable and trying journey. I recommend a long-shot of forbearance and love. I’ve been down this road many times… and am still learning how to improve (I hope!)
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
“JUST A MINUTE”
REMEMBER GEORGE STANDING IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE DOOR?
Just a Minute: Can you recall George Wallace standing in the Alabama Schoolhouse door when Eisenhower was President? It’s happening again only now it’s the NAACP – and they are in
That’s right, the New York State chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held a rally in Harlem a week or so ago, with the United Federation of Teachers to block the city from closing New York’s 22 worst schools. (They also filed a lawsuit to block the city from giving charter schools space to operate.)
What causes this role reversal? One of the schools had only three percent of its students performing at grade level in English last year – and only nine percent in math. The teachers want to keep these abysmal schools open to preserve their jobs – never- mind the kids.
The Wall St. Journal says: (quote) “If you want to know why the NAACP has become irrelevant to the lives of African Americans … this indifference … to the plight of minority children is Exhibit A.”
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