Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!AKRONVM!R3LLS From: R3LLS@AKRONVM.BITNET (Larry L. Stimely) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics Subject: My Last Couple Postings... Message-ID: <90039.0206.R3LLS@AKRONVM> Date: 8 Feb 90 02:06:13 GMT Sender: Forum for the Discussion of Politics Reply-To: Forum for the Discussion of Politics Lines: 85 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM Gateway I have a feeling that I may really burn a lot of people off with the few statements I am about to make, but no one will be satisfied until they succeed in forcing Larry to air all of his dirty laundry, here to the users of the list. OK--but you asked for it. Politically, I am definitely far right--I realize that. I happen to attend a university that openly recruits scores of minorities from underprivleged backrounds, and this school is very nearly 60 percent black because of it. These students attend school for next to nothing, and many are on complete financial aid--this, in a state that is notorious for its lack of funding for education, causes me to pay in excess of $100 per credit hour to attend a school that is basically no better (and seen by a future employer as such) than certain privately endowed institutions where students pay the same rate after financial aid kicks in, and these schools have a hell of a lot more to offer scholastically than does a commuter school like UA. I was raised in a basically all-white community, and I still live at home and attend classes. I HATE it--I'm going to graduate in about a year, and will probably get a decent job (or something where they will pay for graduate school) but I missed out on my "college experience" because of an accident of fate. So be it. I am sick and tired of reading in the local liberal rag about how our president (Dr. Muse) has decreed that all campus social functions are to be curtailed because of the recent occurrance of campus mini-riots at social functions planned, conducted, and attended by ONLY (and I do mean ONLY, as in one-hundred percent) members of black Greek organizations. I am damn sick and tired of hearing from our "Director for Minority Retention" about how bad off these people have it and why we need a Black Computer Science Club when the main evil that these social warriors are fighting is supposedly segregation itself. She's another one who attained her credentials chiefly through affirmative action. She's fake--and worthless, I might add. Lastly (there are many more but I have a migraine tonight and can't stare at the CRT much longer) I am tired of people who are too afraid to speak out and tell the truth as I am doing now. I don't really care HOW Sasha and Jamie feel, or how they attempt to cripple me and my arguments. Ideologically, they're on the moon. The power structure in this country is never going to allow the weenies and other tortured intellectual sloth to ruin The American Dream. Hear me now: it will never happen! We may get ERA thirty or forty years in the future, but there will be a pay-off somewhere along the line. There always is--look at Prohibition. We will have drug legalization, because someone, somewhere, will cook up a scheme to create wealth from it, and this is why America is still a leader among nations. I DARE you to prove me wrong. The minority elite in this country are singlehandedly ruining the Democratic Party--and I think they now realize it, even though they may be too late. The liberals in Congress and their constituents are pathetically out of touch with the nation, and it may take them years to get back what they have lost, with a 50/50 chance that the Democratic party itself may collapse under its own weight. We are tired of the civil rights diatribe of the Sixties. The Great Society DID NOT work! We want to build strong, durable financial futures for ourselves and rebuild our industrial base so we can employ some of these people who are standing in the bread lines but we will not succeed unless everyone begins to pull their own weight. Let's face some facts: there are problems with the races getting along in this country. We are not Sweden, or Norway, or even Canada. We have a long history of tension between the races, particularly in areas where affirmative action is big, and where the economy is depressed, and Akron fits into that category. They WANT it all--free tuition, doors forced open for them into high paying jobs, favoritism in the college classroom at state universities, (and when they screw up and get on academic probation, usually because they have no business in college in the first place) and the list goes on forever. Call me racist, call me whatever you wish, but these problems will be here long after I am gone, and were here before I arrived. Remember that. It is time that someone stood up and said ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, and I am prepared to take that stand. I began subscribing to certain newspapers, and what I read infuriated me--incredibly so. We will begin cleaning up the mess by rebuilding our industry so that we can again build a quality automobile (just like Honda, or Toyota) so we can put people who need jobs back to work. If they screw up or otherwise don't do their jobs, we can them. People learn from this, and if they sell crack, we throw them in the can! If "the can" fills up, we build more prisons. You know the rest. The free ride for certain sectors of the population must stop. Forced integration is a failure, and metro Cleveland is a perfect case study to prove that argument. The blacks live on the east side, and whites on the west. It was like that 20 years ago, and is like that now, 10 years after Judge Battisti's famous court order. He spent a lot of money, ruined thousands of lives, trashed a perfectly good school system, and accomplished absolutely nothing. And guess what?? He's another damn good-for-nothing liberal Democrat, too! NOW I'm finished. R3LLS@AKRONVM