Comments on Race, the Public School System, and the Budget Deficit

I don't like how all I hear is praise for charter schools. It's hypocritical of the government that employs an educational system that taught my generation and I how awesome Brown v. Board of Education was because we couldn't have equality until we were all in the same schools. Now that same government is giving tax payers' dollars to fund essentially an all-black school system that must have lower standards/expectations if 83% are doing the same or worse as public school kids. I can see the side of that argument that says this is good for black children who might get caught up in the drug game or in gangs by giving them a better opportunity to graduate. But they're still going to the same home when they get back from school, so the bad influences will be waiting for them. Also you're going to leave the chance for your students/children to have a better life up to a lottery? This just doesn't seem like the right way of going about things and I think people are afraid to bash charter school and the public education system as a whole because they don't want to be called racists. But my generation is gonna be able to get over that when we're in power because for one thing we have a black president, so iwe're more equal than we've been since in American history. The way that I explain how I feel about race relations to black people is, "Hey, your grandpa might not have been able to eat in the same restaurant as my grandpa but it's not like that between you and me. We're on equal ground, you can make just as much of yourself as I can of myself. It's all about mindset. If you believe in yourself then nobody can tell you that you can't do something. And if they try to it will motivate you that much more to accomplish it. Ask Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, or Lebron James." Our media and the baby boomers might not be ready to talk race on a national level but we're going to have to if we want to win the future. That phrase was coined by Obama who I voted for but don't trust and probably won't vote for again. But one of the biggest reasons I believed in his campaign was the inspiration and motivation it put into most of the black people I know. For a few months I was convinced that black people would commit themselves to improving their life and a lot of them have, I am very proud to say. But I'm from a rural farm town in Eastern, N.C. You can tell which people get a welfare check because they're sitting on their porch when you drive by on your way to the next field. This is why I'm interested in the Milton Friedman videos you've been showing us. He foresaw the dangers of taking wealth away from earners and giving it to non-earners under the guise of humanitarianism. Classic liberal folly...reminds me of this BS war in Libya we're now caught up in. But in the future because of budget cuts the government will have to be slashed or the dollar will fail. I thought the failure was inevitable until I saw that Paul Ryan introduced a budget that cuts the deficit $6 trillion over 10 years so they're saying there's a chance we avoid economic armageddon. Welfare programs must be slashed and I think that's a great thing. Firstly, it stops a portion (1/6, 50 million according to http://www.numberof.net/number-of-americans-on-welfare/ ) of the population from living in a state of comfortable poverty. Second, it will lead to a mass exodus of Congresspeople. That's obviously a great thing...until the next group comes in and the lobbyists buy them off. Third, it could lead to the end of the income tax via a Constituional Amendment as Congresspeople fight and claw to hold on to their jobs. I could be way off of the mainstream on all of this because I don't hear any of it on the media box. But a lot of it started adding up when I saw Ryan's budget proposal. It gave me more hope for the future than I've had in a while. But yeah, back to my original point, people need to look at charter schools through a clearer lens. I hope after reading this that you will.