Program will address race issues in America

IMV, the focus on "racism" is way overblown and is detrimental. One can call me and those like me "racist" or "sexist" or "homophobic" only so many times ... and we start to resent it ... and become angry with those that use the labels so indiscriminately. As a commander (1977) of an army unit, I found the mandated race relations "briefings" counterproductive - a block to check rather than a roadmap to some sort of rapprochement. They created more problems than they resolved ... and sure as hell didn't stop black soldiers from dapping to hell and gone on the streets of the local Korean towns or, I might add, looking down on the Koreans. The demonstrators in Charlottesville numbered in the hundreds ... as did the counter-demonstrators. That is hardly representative of America. Trump, and even Clinton, turned out more folks for their town hall meetings.

Superficial appeasement ... tearing down or removing statues ... isn't going to change a damn thing. Tear 'em down or remove 'em - I really don't care ... but when it is all said and done, blacks will still be killing each other in the inner cities. Black kids will still be born into welfare families with no father. Black youth will still be failing in public schools, then dropping out. Drugs will still be the currency of the street. Until blacks respect those among them that are as competitive in the non-athletic aspects of life as they do their black athletes, things aren't going to change much at all. We live in "the world", not the "white man's world" ... Hispanics are learning to play in it ... Asians are kicking butt in it ... and most blacks are ... lingering on food stamps. When blacks start calling Ben Carson and other black conservatives "Uncle Toms," I really get disgusted. Blacks tend to tear each other down more than they build each other up. It is truly ironic that those who so enthusiastically blame whites for their ills ... are looking to whites to fix them. Damnit .. cure those ills yourselves! Kick your kids in the ass when they don't produce in school ... or cut it altogether. Bang 'em on the butt if they show the slightest inclination to affiliate with a gang. Encourage them to keep their zippers and panties up ... or use contraception. That's what I did with my kids ... and yep, it wasn't easy and I didn't always succeed. But ... I never blamed anyone else for that for which I was responsible.

I have serious doubts about the narrative that the events in Charlottesville were based on race. It seems that this "treatment" is based on a misdiagnosis. The proximate cause of the injuries and death were the failure of the police to properly control the crowd. The proximate cause of that failure was the mayor who ordered the police to funnel the crowd into a confrontation and then withdraw. The proximate cause of that order, well, we can only guess at that. Yes, somewhere down the line you may argue that the opposing sides would not have gathered in the first place had not race been an issue, but that is lost several layers back. It is not proximate. Thus, I contend that President Trump was correct in his initial assessment. There were many bad actors engaged at Charlottesville, although I doubt that he saw the mayor in that mix. This is why any pronouncement beyond sympathy for those injured and killed is foolish until incidents such as this can be properly investigated. Of course, that is not consistent with the agenda of the ideologues mining it for propaganda value.

As a conservative, allow me to point out that it's not higher education to which I am increasingly hostile. I think education is great -- but that's not what's happening in many of our institutions for higher education. Indoctrination and propaganda are not the same things as education. The stifling of debate is antithetical to education. THAT'S what I am increasingly hostile toward.