6 Search Results for "wbur"

• I have no Black friends

  • From: Michaeljc4
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    I don't have any friends who are black. I have one or two black acquaintances at work, but other than that, everyone I know and spend time with is white. I live in an all white suburb of Boston. I attended a virtually all white college in Maine. When I went to graduate school, there were a few black people in my program, but we never became anything other than passing acquiantences. Most of the people who attend my church are white. I don't know if any of this can be helped, because--at least here in New England--people of differing races don't seem to mingle much. There are exceptions, perhaps: trendy Somerville, nerdy Cambridge, parts of Boston--but I suspect that for the majority of us here in the Greater Boston area, we are surrounded by people who look just like us. And even if someone lives in a 'mixed' city like Quincy or Malden...how much socializing do people do with the members of other races?

    The only time in my life I have ever been in close proximity with black people was in the Navy. We lived, ate, slept, drank, worked, fought, and did everything together. We had candid conversations about race and class that would be the envy of any college professor. We did everything together, and talked honestly--if not always charitably--about what it meant to be black in America. When you are stuck with someone for 12 hours in a little tiny room with nothing to do but talk, the masks come off, believe me.

    I am a dad now; I have two beautiful baby girls who are going to grow up very much like I did, and have no friends of other races. None of this is on purpose; I didn't chose to live my life isolated from black people, and I didn't consciously chose it for my girls (in other words, I didn't say, 'Hey! There are no black people in this town...let's move there!')

    I'm not sure what, if anything, I can or should do about this.

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• Obama is Not Black

  • From: Teja Arboleda
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    The politics of race perpetuate an archaic political construct - race itself.
  • 1 year ago
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• Visas for Foreign Students Hur

  • From: SaviesDaddy
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    My tory: I entered the Military shortly before 9/11. While in the service of our country, I was able to get a Masters Degree in Mathematics (3.5 GPA) with a follow-on as an analyst. During that time, my Wife also recieved her Masters in a scientific field. When my commitment ended, I declined a well paying job and moved to Arizona with her to pursue our dream of getting H.D.'s. We were both turned away while the school admitted a large number of forign students.

    The Truth: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Maura Harty told USINFO in 2007, the Department of State issued a record number of student and exchange visitor visas -- more than 600,000 -- greater than 10 percent more than last year.

    The roblems: When schools decide to take forign students over qualified Americans, they create two problems.

    First, they are training Americas competitors. Most forign students go back home and become Americas competition... This leads to the outsourcing of American Jobs and potentially the collapse of the American ecomony. It also, gives credit to those people who want an increase in H1-B visas because "there aren't enough technical people in America".

    econd: Many adults can't afford more than one opportunity to go back to college. Turning these people down is a crime.

    Could this happen to you: YE . Talk to a PH.D. or even an Undergraduate and find out how many schools turned them away.

    HOW TO GET MY VOTE: Stop Student Visas... and start believing in Americas Youth again.

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  • 1 year ago
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• Hillary Clinton Speaks For Me

  • From: Ronald
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    Barack Obama does not speak for me. He claims to be a different kind of politician but he is not. Pull back the curtain and you see that he is coldly calculating and deceptive. He is very good at it -but he does not offer a new kind of politics. From the lies and attacks he has put forth against Clinton from the beginning of his campaign, to his shifting stance on Rezko and Rev. Wright, to his denials about NAFTA and even the cornerstone of his campaign- IRAQ, this man speaks with a silver forked tongue.

    He tells everyone one what they want to hear- in beautiful rhetorical language while doing exactly what he accuses others of behind the scenes. He won his first election to the state senate by having his opponent Alice Palmer's name taken off the ballot by contesting the nominating signatures one at a time. He is doing this again with the voters of Michigan and Florida. He won his senate seat by secretly revealing his opponents private divorce records. All the while financed by the slum landlord Rezko- I guess that’s his idea of community organizing.

    Who the hell is he to point a finger at Hillary Clinton? Where is the media? Why is SNL the ONLY outlet to see the transparent idiocy and comedy in this? Why is the media treating Hillary Clinton the way they treated Al Gore in 2000 and WHY is everyone buying it? Once again, the experienced knowledgeable, tested candidate is deemed too boring, too nerdy, too un-likable. What a mistake that was in 2000.

    Hillary is not perfect. BUT, unlike Obama, Hillary does not pretend to be someone that she isn’t. She doesn’t put on airs as the new messiah. She doesn’t say change and hope and hope for change. She specifically explains what she has done, what she will do and why.

    The kids don’t get it. I’m not a believer. I’m a thinking adult.

    Hillary Clinton speaks for me.

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  • 1 year ago
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• Education, Education, Educatio

  • From: ajjl57
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    The serious challenges that we face as a nation today will not be ultimately solved by the current generation in power but by those generations that we are educating today. National security, global warming, poverty, the changing US economy in a global market, are all issues that will take many years to tackle. If we do not make the education of future generations our top priority, we will not produce the very individuals that will solve these problems.

    If a candidate can tell me and show me that they have a plan to raise the quality of education for all American children to at least what China and India are doing….you’ve got my vote!

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  • 1 year ago
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• DGeorge

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