http://onemansthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/obama-just-announced-to-rural-america-%e2%80%9ci-don%e2%80%99t-like-you%e2%80%9d/ Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:59:21 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://onemansthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/obama-just-announced-to-rural-america-%e2%80%9ci-don%e2%80%99t-like-you%e2%80%9d/#comment-618 Reid Reasor Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:29:10 +0000 http://onemansthoughts.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-618 Racism is Alive and Well in America I believe this election is more about race than we are admitting, and America needs to come to grips with it, and then do what we can to fix it. We need an educational revolution. I’m a fiscal conservative and a social moderate who became alarmed at the number of African Americans/Blacks who are voting for Obama just because the color of his skin. My information comes from the recent Air Force Times article that reported on the polling results from all our current active duty military. In the recent Air Force Times I read a break down of how our current military will vote in the upcoming election. The results were broken down by service, sex, rank: either officer or enlisted and race. Every single group of minorities and rank combinations all voted for McCain with an overall win ratio of 76% except one group: African American/Black. The African American vote for Obama was over 74%. I’m having a hard time understanding why every single minority/sex/race/rank group voted for McCain except this one group. I can only come to the conclusion that race is the key factor in this upcoming election. If these numbers reflect the rest of America, then McCain will have a difficult time overcoming those whose vote is tainted by the color of the candidates’ skin. Therefore I believe that the results would be different if McCain were black, and Obama white. I feel that votes in America based mostly on the color of candidates skin is all we need to make a case for racism, and especially from anybody who says race is not a factor. I think that the real discrimination is in education. White America needs to understand that as long as school revenue is based on property taxes, the rich land owners will have more money for education than the poor land owners. Less money for schools mean less pay, less resources in the classroom and less resources in athletics. Sure the higher income house owners earned it, and they have the benefits of their hard work, but the children of the lower income area homes didn’t fail to earn what the higher income children have. They're just children. The lower income areas have higher violence, more crime and average teachers that only last four years due to the low pay, overworked and overstressed. Try this test in your own town, go look at the higher income houses and then go look at their schools. Usually the top income schools are almost totally white. Go and look at the lower income area and their schools, then walk the halls and you will see children of Black/African Americans. My friend is the director of admissions at the Air Force Academy and he tells me the tragedy of some minority 4.0 GPA good, solid, honorable kids from inner city schools that bust out from the Academy for grades, just because of academic disparities in their upbringing. That young man/woman isn’t responsible for having achieved the valedictorian level of performance that leads to academic failure at our Academies. Why is there a higher percentage of academic failure among minorities at our service academies? Educational disparities are the only possible answer. Let’s resource all the classrooms, pay all the teachers a good wage, provide everyone with a great environment, and then get out of the way. The only way to do this is to federalize those three factors, then can get away from having race and skin color be the issue in our elected officials. Reid D. Reasor Waylonf15@aol.com Retired Lt Col, USAF Racism is Alive and Well in America
I believe this election is more about race than we are admitting, and America needs to come to grips with it, and then do what we can to fix it. We need an educational revolution.
I’m a fiscal conservative and a social moderate who became alarmed at the number of African Americans/Blacks who are voting for Obama just because the color of his skin. My information comes from the recent Air Force Times article that reported on the polling results from all our current active duty military.
In the recent Air Force Times I read a break down of how our current military will vote in the upcoming election. The results were broken down by service, sex, rank: either officer or enlisted and race. Every single group of minorities and rank combinations all voted for McCain with an overall win ratio of 76% except one group: African American/Black.
The African American vote for Obama was over 74%. I’m having a hard time understanding why every single minority/sex/race/rank group voted for McCain except this one group. I can only come to the conclusion that race is the key factor in this upcoming election. If these numbers reflect the rest of America, then McCain will have a difficult time overcoming those whose vote is tainted by the color of the candidates’ skin.
Therefore I believe that the results would be different if McCain were black, and Obama white. I feel that votes in America based mostly on the color of candidates skin is all we need to make a case for racism, and especially from anybody who says race is not a factor.
I think that the real discrimination is in education. White America needs to understand that as long as school revenue is based on property taxes, the rich land owners will have more money for education than the poor land owners. Less money for schools mean less pay, less resources in the classroom and less resources in athletics. Sure the higher income house owners earned it, and they have the benefits of their hard work, but the children of the lower income area homes didn’t fail to earn what the higher income children have. They’re just children. The lower income areas have higher violence, more crime and average teachers that only last four years due to the low pay, overworked and overstressed.
Try this test in your own town, go look at the higher income houses and then go look at their schools. Usually the top income schools are almost totally white. Go and look at the lower income area and their schools, then walk the halls and you will see children of Black/African Americans.
My friend is the director of admissions at the Air Force Academy and he tells me the tragedy of some minority 4.0 GPA good, solid, honorable kids from inner city schools that bust out from the Academy for grades, just because of academic disparities in their upbringing. That young man/woman isn’t responsible for having achieved the valedictorian level of performance that leads to academic failure at our Academies. Why is there a higher percentage of academic failure among minorities at our service academies? Educational disparities are the only possible answer.
Let’s resource all the classrooms, pay all the teachers a good wage, provide everyone with a great environment, and then get out of the way. The only way to do this is to federalize those three factors, then can get away from having race and skin color be the issue in our elected officials.
Reid D. Reasor
Waylonf15@aol.com
Retired Lt Col, USAF

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