Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!MC.LCS.MIT.EDU!kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu From: kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: mod.politics Subject: Re: Good English Message-ID: <12229752216.51.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 10-Aug-86 15:15:22 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12229752216.51.MCGREW Posted: Sun Aug 10 15:15:22 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Aug-86 23:40:45 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@mc.lcs.mit.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 29 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu From: ~joe testa~ ... such statements are often used to argue "blacks are inherently inferior to whites", when in fact it's just the crummy environment they grew up in that hasn't provided the with a decent education. I don't believe in inferior races. But I certainly do believe in inferior cultures, subcultures, ways of thought, ways of speaking, etc. We do blacks no favors by telling them that jive talk is just as good as english and dealing drugs is just as good as working in an office. Now government cannot draw such conclusions. They should treat everyone equally. As far as government is concerned, dealing drugs is just as good as office work. Only individuals are allowed to make such value judgement, for instance when choosing who to hire or work for, or who to rent one's house to or what neighborhood to rent an apartment or house in. Individuals are free to set up schools that will teach these alternative lifestyles. I think that such a school is a very bad idea, and I vehemently object to being made to pay for it, or to pay for the re-education of its graduates. But if people who choose to live a slum lifestyle can find employment, perhaps by employing eachother to the exclusion of outsiders, more power to them. ...Keith -------