Today's Seattle Times reports on yesterday's invitation-only meeting with Superintendent candidate Gregory Thornton: "Superintendent candidate Thornton says "let's deal with" race":
Many of the questions related to race, prompting him to say: "In the community, everywhere I go it's about race. It comes up in nearly every conversation I've had. That says to me, folks, it's time we stop talking about it and let's deal with it."Deal with it how, exactly?
Meanwhile, the Seattle School District sent me this list of "stakeholder" organizations that were invited to meet and question the Superintendent candidates. Raise your hand if you live in Seattle and feel that any of the groups on the list represent your interests. I'm curious who decided that these are the only "stakeholders" who deserved to be invited and why.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 06, 2007 01:19 PM | Email ThisExpect civility.
Expect performance.
Expect adherence to the strict guidelines of behaviour.
Expect attendace.
Expect respect.
Expect consequences for not meeting expectation.
Race has nothing to do with.
Expectations of the individuals has everything to do with it.
With all the "multiculturism," the left has created different sets of expectations for different people based on the color of the skin.
That is the racism.
P.S. "Stakeholder" is PC for elite ruling class.
Posted by: JCM on April 6, 2007 03:02 PMThere's an unwillingness to broach the obvious, that different cultures and different philosophies produce different outcomes. Instead, simply blame it on an easily identifiable physical attribute. Never mind the black CEO's personal merits, and hard work that created his success, he's black, and therefore he is a victim of "White Privilege."
Recently, we had the two black NFL football coaches meet together in the Superbowl. The Leftstream media's racist meme, was that it was a great victory for their skin color. Frankly, the coaches should have been totally insulted, because their skin color is not what made all of the great coaching moves and hard work to get them to the point where their teams were competing in the Superbowl.
Today's Leftists are Marxists that lump everyone in to classes, and often Racist classes.
Posted by: Jeff B. on April 6, 2007 03:08 PMAt the meeting were 25 people and when I looked around there were 2 business people and 23 enviros and each of the enviros looked at one guy of their leaders before making a comment. Worthless to the nth degree are these stakeholder meetings. It gives the elites an excuse to do what they want to do anyway.
Needless to say, the business aspect was ignored in the final report. And it wasn't from a lack of trying from my part, either.
Posted by: swatter on April 6, 2007 03:52 PMWhat a crock. Seattle schools are a disgrace. You'd think we live in the f-ing south in the 60's. Race only is an issue to liberal appologizers. Are there A-holes that hate people, you bet, but that doesn't matter what your race is. The d1ck theory applies, a d1ck is a d1ck no matter what color they are.
Can't wait to see the drivel the other candidate states.
Posted by: Dengle on April 6, 2007 04:35 PMSometimes a woman or person of color is the best qualified applicant for a job, and sometimes they are the 4th or 5th best qualified. I truly hope the Seattle finalists are the 1st and 2nd best qualified, but it appears to me by the comments previously made by the search committee company that the 1st and 2nd qualifications required by the school board were to be a person of color or a woman.
Posted by: Doug on April 7, 2007 08:06 AM