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"In our investigations, we have found cases where African-American students were disciplined more harshly and more frequently because of their race than similarly situated white students," the Justice Department and Education Department said in the letter to school districts. "In short, racial discrimination in school discipline is a real problem."
Holder announced last summer that he was instructing federal prosecutors to stop charging nonviolent drug offenders with crimes that carry mandatory minimum sentences, a change affecting crack coc aine sentences that have disproportionately affected minorities. And just before Christmas, President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of eight people serving long drug sentences.
trumpet
reply to post by Zeppp
I suggest watching Inherit the Wind.
Henry Drummond says this: "Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!"
Your remarks remind me of the recent character "the Governer" from the Walking Dead.
Zeppp
trumpet
reply to post by Zeppp
I suggest watching Inherit the Wind.
Henry Drummond says this: "Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!"
Your remarks remind me of the recent character "the Governer" from the Walking Dead.
I don't watch tv or movies I will not give Illuminati foot soldiers an inch in my life.
trumpet
Zeppp
trumpet
reply to post by Zeppp
I suggest watching Inherit the Wind.
Henry Drummond says this: "Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!"
Your remarks remind me of the recent character "the Governer" from the Walking Dead.
I don't watch tv or movies I will not give Illuminati foot soldiers an inch in my life.
You could read the play by the same name. It's a reaction to Mcarthyism and blacklisting that uses the Scopes Monkey trial as a forum to discuss accusations of treason without proper regard for evidence and making unfair allegations in order to restrict dissent or political criticism. I read it in high school, which was a public school. I won't give Illuminati foot soldiers an inch in my life either, nor soldiers of fanaticism and ignorance. I don't believe you are either.
ketsuko
reply to post by trumpet
Who made you and your kind the ultimate arbiters of morality?
We can't have any kind prayer in school, for any religion, because that would be jamming people's morality down kids' throats, but then you can sit there and wax poetic about how proper it is to jam your morality down their throats.
ketsuko
reply to post by Zeppp
I like how Henry Drummond is making the slippery slope argument. Isn't that the same one we are told doesn't actually exist?
trumpet
ketsuko
reply to post by trumpet
I believe in the separation of church and state. There should be no prayer of any kind in school. Church and home are where morality and decency should be taught. The first amendment allows me to speak openly of my opinions and that is what I'm doing, right here on ATS. I'm nowhere close to a school.
ketsuko
reply to post by trumpet
So, if a child merely wants to pray on their own in school, they are out of bounds and have no freedom to do that?
That goes beyond the bounds of what is and is not allowed, even in public school. Children are free to pray if they wish. It is freedom of religion.