Daily Topics - Monday June 22nd, 2015

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mathboy's picture
mathboy 11 years 7 weeks ago
#1

As the conquerer of the Confederacy, the United States should include all Confederate flags in the national rules of flag display, and say when it's appropriate to fly them--namely, never.

It might be appropriate for that war memorial next to the South Carolina capitol to have on it engravings of the flags that were actually flown by the people it's supposed to honor.

mathboy's picture
mathboy 11 years 7 weeks ago
#2

Wait, since when is Thom a fan of Alexander Hamilton? Usually he argues that Thomas Jefferson was great and Hamilton was horrible.

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kellybchicago 11 years 7 weeks ago
#3

Thom this is in the order of importance:

1. remove labels:
White means light, pure, innocent, etc.

Black means dark, danger, bad, dirty, tainted, etc.

2. Let out fathers and son's who have low level offenses (anything related to murder, sexual offense, domestic and child related crimes can stay).

3. erase all crimal backgrounds.

4. Every company that has benefited from slavery in any shape form or fashion should be required to bring jobs to the inner cities with factories (bring them back from China) if whites wants to work they should be required to come to our communities to work. We don't bite.

5.Require that no one can use the Nword in music over the public air waves and anything that the Jewish community won't let fly can't fly with the us.
Disrespect to women is off limits.

6. Open these selective enrollment schools up. Whatever you teach kids will learn and actually have text books this time. I am tired of my kids coming home with work that was printed off a website vs a book.

7. Give us loans to open stores in our neighborhoods. No more Koreans or Arabs owning stores in our communities. Just like any other community (Mexican's own Mexican business in their communities, etc.

8. Make it illegal to deny employment because of crimal background no matter what as long as it doesn't involve children (they can't work around kids anyway).

Kelly in Chicago

mathboy's picture
mathboy 11 years 7 weeks ago
#4

Kelly, I'd add restoring the right to vote to those who lost it when convicted of a crime. Once someone's out of prison, they must be allowed to be a full member of society again.

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