Oh My God, Not The Military Recruiters!
Posted on July 2, 2005
Cross-posted from An American HousewifePHILADELPHIA — “Nancy Carroll didn’t know schools were giving military recruiters her family’s contact information until a recruiter called her 17-year-old granddaughter.That didn’t sit well with Carroll, who believe unfairly target minority studentss recruiters . So she joined activists across the country who are urging families to notify schools that they don’t want their children’s contact information given out.
“People of color who go into the military are put on the front line,” said the 67-year-old Carroll, who is black.
A provision of President Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts to provide military recruiters with student phone numbers and addresses or risk losing millions in federal education funding. Parents or students 18 and over can “opt out” by submitting a written request to keep the information private.
But critics say schools do not always convey that message. In New Mexico, the American Civil Liberties Union chapter sued the Albuquerque Public School District last month, charging it does not adequately inform parents of the opt-out provision.”
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Ok, I’ll give you the part about school districts “requiring” to give out children’s information is not right. However, you did read that part about the parents being able to “opt out” by submitting a written request to keep the information private, right? You read that part too? OK.
I take it then, too, that you read about the ACLU suing a school for not giving out “adequate” information about this procedure where you can request the information be kept private? You read that as well? OK. If you want to know what is going on with your children and their school then GO FIND OUT, ask questions, get involved!! Don’t sit back and expect others to do everything for you, yes I’m talking about white people too!
First of all let me start by saying is the military recruitment such a bad thing? Would you rather have gangster thugs hunting down your sweet, innocent, naive child? I’m using those terms loosely people. Oh my GOD, no not the military! Heaven forbid your son or daughter go into the service, learn some discipline, get an education, make something of him/herself, free benefits, free housing (optional), get a salary, and be PROUD to have done something with their lives. OH no, wouldn’t want that would ya?
And this thing about putting blacks on the frontline. BULLSHIT. Granted, the woman who said it was 67 years old, and black, so I have NO DOUBT she has seen her hard-knocked days full of racism. But I’d like to think, no I know, things have changed about blacks being put on the front line. Give me a break. I’m so sick and tired of this complaining about how people get treated because of their skin color. YES IT STILL GOES ON TODAY. I know that, just not as bad as it used to; now I’ll admit maybe I am the one being naive on this subject matter. We’ve made progress, yes we have; go back and read your history. Can we at least acknowledge the progress and think positively about our future as AMERICANS….not black America or white America or Hispanic America?
Let’s ALL stop this nonsense about being different. Hell, we’ll stay stuck there and make no progress whatsoever. We have identified the problem now let’s move on to the solution.
I just had a commenter about the Michael Jackson case. I know her blog. She disagreed with me for saying I thought Michael Jackson was guilty. That’s fine, she also parlayed her opinion in a very intelligible and respectful manner. I hope she keeps coming back.
Now rant on my friends, but let’s stay in the solution today. For me, the solution consists of talking, debating, and taking action for the good. Asking God to guide me today, even with my potty mouth, turning my will and my life over to Him, doing the next right thing in front of me today and to try to help someone else out who needs it. And helping someone out doesn’t have to be a huge thing. It could be as simple as a smile, a hug, helping carrying someone’s groceries to their car, giving someone a ride who doesn’t have a car, picking up the damn telephone just to say, “hi I was thinking of you today”, so go out within the world and be good today. Treat a person kindly; it does YOUR soul good and will make you feel happy and joyful.
Now excuse me while I go wake up the children at 6:00 this morning and take them on a four mile walk!
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The ACLU seems to take the side of whatever group wishes to destroy this country. I got phone calls from recruiters when I was a senior in high school and back when Clinton was president. I simply told them I was going to college, join the ROTC and did not wish to enlist. And that was the end of it. And that would be the end of it if a recruiter calls a home and the parents tell them they and their child are not interested.
Ofcourse those that hate Bush and his evil imperial war for oil were unable to unseat him from office. So the next best thing is to try and cripple the military by hampering recruitment. I wrote about some of those groups back at my blog. Most of them call socialist and communist organizations their friends and allies. One group has a group of people with Arab names on their board of directors. Amazing how our enemies seem to really start crying for peace when they bite off more than they can chew with us. And if peace doesn’t work, then they can attack our military at home using scumbags like the ACLU.
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BTW, black soldiers do not die at higer rates than whites. The causality rates mirror the ethnic breakdown of America in general.
I posted about this. Here is the link. Sorry, I don’t know how to do html, so you’ll have to copy & paste.
http://onecornerma.blogspot.com/2005/06/another-lie-of-left.html
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