Alabama votes in favour of keeping segragation

[Renzo]

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Absolutely disgusting

Separate schools for white and black children is sick.

Fucking backward hillbillys.

And all this in the land of equal opportunities in the 21st century

[Toadborg]

It seems that this is merely a formality, not an indication of the actual ethnic mix in the schools, but nevertheless it seems strnage and worrying that it woudn't be easily passed.

Mind you we have all-Christian and all-Muslim etc etc schools in Britain, which is just another form of segregation.

And our enlightened governemtn want to encourage more of them, how left-wing and socially progressive!

[Aladdin]

Nuke 'em.

[wheresmyplacebo]

Originally posted by Toadborg
It seems that this is merely a formality, not an indication of the actual ethnic mix in the schools, but nevertheless it seems strnage and worrying that it woudn't be easily passed.

Mind you we have all-Christian and all-Muslim etc etc schools in Britain, which is just another form of segregation.

And our enlightened governemtn want to encourage more of them, how left-wing and socially progressive!

the segregation that exists in british schools as a whole is cause like most immigrant groups, people settled into communities, like my one is mainly asian, but the schools arent segregated, its more just representing the local population

[Toadborg]

yeah but I am talking about religious schools where you have to be of that religion (or pretend you are ) to get in.

There are plenty of them and that is segregation just the same........

[wheresmyplacebo]

well religion can be faked, and my local roman catholic school has no white students, theyre all black or filipino

and religious schools have to accept a minumum of 10% non-religion people

[Toadborg]

Originally posted by wheresmyplacebo
well religion can be faked, and my local roman catholic school has no white students, theyre all black or filipino

and religious schools have to accept a minumum of 10% non-religion people

Well that is still segregation if it is Black away from white people!

People do fake it a lot but many do not and the principle is bad enough. I also doubt that mnay people fake it to get into Muslim schools.

Surely the segregation of Muslim children from everyone else is particulalry bad at this time?

[wheresmyplacebo]

Originally posted by Toadborg
Well that is still segregation if it is Black away from white people!

People do fake it a lot but many do not and the principle is bad enough. I also doubt that mnay people fake it to get into Muslim schools.

Surely the segregation of Muslim children from everyone else is particulalry bad at this time?

its more natrual geographics, theres no black people in many schools cause no black people live there, simple, that isnt the same as having schools that only accept white and non-white students, my local school accept slocals whatever they may be

you a bit overboard you know

[Disillusioned]

So incredibly backwards. Culturally America seems so divided, there’s places like New York, New Jersey, California, etc which seem as tolerant and civilised as say Britain then there’s places like Alabama which just seem to be stuck in a timewarp.

Don’t the blue Democrat states have most of the money too? Hmm be cool if they declared independence, then the right wing redneck Christian extremists would lose much of their power…Don’t think that will ever happen though.

[Aladdin]

This is the map that was doing the rounds amongst Democrat voters and everyone else in America who was despaired by Bush's re-election:



It makes a lot of sense to me!

[eternalsunshine]

Originally posted by Toadborg
Well that is still segregation if it is Black away from white people!

Of course it is Toadborg. Same as I suppose in any country. If it's not Black-White...Muslim-Hindu...Catholic-Protestant...Palestinian-Israeli it's going to be something else isn't it

Football teams perhaps?

Behave!

[Diesel]

This 'event' in Alabama was about paying taxes to support government mandated programs...otherwise the wording is meaningless. The folks in 'Bama' get along with each other just fine and don't need any damn yankees to tell them how to do it.

And that's a fact. Citizens of whatever race get along much better with each other in the Southern states than in any of the 'enlightened' yankee states or city states like NYC...where you find more segregation than just about anywhere.

It's a great pretence about being progressive and such but a close look at our democratic party of late and compareing it to the NSDAP of WW/2 days is a real eye opener. Kerry (we like flipper better) was a disgraced coward with a sordid combat record in Viet Nam but once he got POTUS Jimmy Carter to pardon everyone he put his medals back on and thought noone was noticing.

More than anything else his former 'comerads in arms' did him by broadcasting the truth independent of any party affiliation...and sank his Patrician arse and put him back in the ashes of a burning Camelot with the 'admiral' of Chapiquidick...the old boozer Ted Kennedy.

Anyway, don't get too wound up about Alabama...they're nice folks mostly of English and African descent.

[BlackArab]

Originally posted by Diesel
This 'event' in Alabama was about paying taxes to support government mandated programs...otherwise the wording is meaningless. The folks in 'Bama' get along with each other just fine and don't need any damn yankees to tell them how to do it.

And that's a fact. Citizens of whatever race get along much better with each other in the Southern states than in any of the 'enlightened' yankee states or city states like NYC...where you find more segregation than just about anywhere.

True. NYC is one of the most segregated places I've been to. Its really wierd as nobody seemed to mind. They mix at work but then go home to their ethnic enclaves. There is some mixing on the underground music/club scene but that was it in my experience.

Funny thing is a few of my cousins moved from there to Atlanta, Georgia and said it was more relaxed than NYC.

[morrocan roll]

Originally posted by Toadborg

Mind you we have all-Christian and all-Muslim etc etc schools in Britain, which is just another form of segregation.

i think you'll find that it's more by choice.
certain groups of people want to bring their children up with certain beliefs and values ...i would always refuse to let my children anywhere near a catholic school ...my choice cos of my beliefs.

[Kentish]

Originally posted by morrocan roll
i think you'll find that it's more by choice....my choice cos of my beliefs.

It's still a choice in Alabama too. But perhaps there is a different justification to segregate by skin colour than by religious beliefs. The difference is the legal basis and the underlying reasoning.

I really can't understand why they would want blatant racism in their constitution.