A negative right is the right to be free from arbitrary arrest. A
positive right is the right to walk down the street without being
assaulted.
Within classrooms, students who want to learn should be provided with
a classroom that is managed by an adult in such a way that order is
preserved. This is necessary for focus and learning.
And yet, the “rights” of hooligans are protected to such an extent
that the much more legitimate rights of honest students who are doing
their best, are trampled. Do you really think prominent Democrats send
their kids to the schools where this happens? Of course not. Most of
them go to private schools. Jesse Jackson Jr. sure as hell didn’t go to
public school in Chicago.
And here is a statistic you won’t see quoted often: according to the
National Assessment of Educational Progress test, black twelth graders
are, on average, four years behind white and Asian students.
And where 20% of white students score “below basic”–which amounts to
an F in the subject matter–more than 50% of black students scored
below basic in math, science, U.S. History, civics and geography. In
science, it was close to 80%.
At the risk of stating the obvious, we live in an information
economy. The statistics on money spent on inner city schools is
comparable to nations that are vastly outperforming us. A moment’s
contemplation will tell you that an environment where trouble makers
can’t be removed, and where gun detectors are needed, is not going to
produce very good results.
I have recently been accused of being a racist by several people, for
my adamant opposition to Obama. In point of fact, I view myself as
less racist that the average Democrat. I think the African Americans in
this nation are fully up to vastly improving their results on an array
of tests, virtually immediately, IF WE DEMAND IT OF THEM.
Democrats, on the other hand, think that things that happened 30-200
years ago have left such a stain that the only solution is continued
faith in Democrats, who will keep pouring good money after bad, in
pursuit of policies that are abject failures, but which keep getting
them votes.
Me, I think if we put smart people in place who are empowered to kick
ass, we have plenty of hope, with less money spent than we are spending
now.
That won’t happen, of course, but on some level, at some point, one
can hope that the Democrats will finally begin to feel at least a trace
of shame at the abuse they heap daily on the least advantaged of our
nation, in the form of sycophantic manipulativeness, and indifference to
human suffering.
These problems–all of them–can be solved. We just need balls and a plan.