Fifth, I was tickled by the first line of your post on March 28. "On Monday, thousands of Latino high school students walked out of their classrooms en masse...". What I found humorous was the fact that the greatest amount of truancy and the highest drop-out rate in our public schools comes from the "...Latino high school students..." so, naturally they would take advantage of any opportunity to "skip" school!Bear - comment at Max Blumenthal 10.Apr.06
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What bugs me about the millions in the street to protest bogus "immigration reform" is they haven't been out there kicking against the war-against-other-brown-people as well.
What would be amusing about that smug observation of "Bear" - if we weren't so close to the brink of the verge - is that it never occurs to people like that that the drop-out rate and the mass protests might be caused by the same thing. That the flaw is systemic and rises from an identifiable privileged minority who maintain their place by violence and hypocrisy disguised as morality.
There's that "Daddy knows best" thing underneath it. The assumption that school drop-outs are losers automatically, and fully responsible. This is passive sadism and it's coming back around, to bite the unwitting, hard.
That brink, that verge.
