Comments on: CE Week #12: “The Worst Week” http://pkautzman.edublogs.org/2007/11/21/ce-week-12-the-worst-week/ Mt. Spokane High School AP Government & Politics Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:11:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Jordan Solidarity "Solid" Sjol http://pkautzman.edublogs.org/2007/11/21/ce-week-12-the-worst-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1109 Jordan Solidarity "Solid" Sjol Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:12:21 +0000 http://pkautzman.edublogs.org/2007/11/21/ce-week-12-the-worst-week/#comment-1109 So hell, yeah, that’s pretty moving. Well-written too. Newsweek, you’ve impressed me. Though it doesn’t always happen, when you’re on you’re on. Man, though, this whole thing was pretty downfaced… LBJ sounds like quite the sad puppy, especially when I picture him in his nightie traipsing around the Whitehouse with a flashlight looking for the Wilson portrait. Sorry Skagger, but it seems a little silly to compare the red-state/blue-state division to the massive amounts of turmoil bread in this country over race. We fought a civil war over slavery, and to this day it’s not all right, but thanks to the work of those like the venerable Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we are getting closer. (Thanks also, I’d like to say, to the work of Malcolm X and the black panthers… I’d just like to throw that one in there because the more militant wing of the black-rights movement was treated with what seemed to be some measure of disdain in this article) Immigrants and gays have their problems, but it’s not two centuries of oppression; it’s an east-Hampton clambake when compared to the struggles of our African American populous. This is a parallel often drawn, and while it’s politically expedient I’d just like to say that it is flawed. So hell, yeah, that’s pretty moving. Well-written too. Newsweek, you’ve impressed me. Though it doesn’t always happen, when you’re on you’re on. Man, though, this whole thing was pretty downfaced… LBJ sounds like quite the sad puppy, especially when I picture him in his nightie traipsing around the Whitehouse with a flashlight looking for the Wilson portrait.
Sorry Skagger, but it seems a little silly to compare the red-state/blue-state division to the massive amounts of turmoil bread in this country over race. We fought a civil war over slavery, and to this day it’s not all right, but thanks to the work of those like the venerable Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we are getting closer. (Thanks also, I’d like to say, to the work of Malcolm X and the black panthers… I’d just like to throw that one in there because the more militant wing of the black-rights movement was treated with what seemed to be some measure of disdain in this article) Immigrants and gays have their problems, but it’s not two centuries of oppression; it’s an east-Hampton clambake when compared to the struggles of our African American populous. This is a parallel often drawn, and while it’s politically expedient I’d just like to say that it is flawed.

]]> By: Derrick Skaug http://pkautzman.edublogs.org/2007/11/21/ce-week-12-the-worst-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1072 Derrick Skaug Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:48:32 +0000 http://pkautzman.edublogs.org/2007/11/21/ce-week-12-the-worst-week/#comment-1072 Wow. This was a powerful piece of writing. What a thing to read thanksgiving right before I go and have dinner with my family. “Oh God,” he said, “when is this violence going to stop?” I can only imagine how the country must have felt in that time filled with great chaos and instability. It is frightening to say the least. Your leaders are being assassinated one by one, your friends are dying one by one in some country you have never heard of, and the world is being turned upside down every day. I sometimes feel like our country is in a similar yet less intense state as of right now. Robert Kennedy was impressive with the use of rhetoric saying, “What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or black. I wish I could hear someone say that right now. I feel that this country has been divided in a red/blue state mentality. I feel that the gays, the illegal immigrants and the minorities are being labeled as second class citizens. We see gay’s being denied their equal rights every day. We see illegal immigrants being forced to work minimum wage jobs without any benefits. We see our country wire tapping citizens of Arabic descent, searching them in airports. I truly hope that there is someone out there that can turn this country in the right direction. Wow. This was a powerful piece of writing. What a thing to read thanksgiving right before I go and have dinner with my family.

“Oh God,” he said, “when is this violence going to stop?”

I can only imagine how the country must have felt in that time filled with great chaos and instability. It is frightening to say the least. Your leaders are being assassinated one by one, your friends are dying one by one in some country you have never heard of, and the world is being turned upside down every day. I sometimes feel like our country is in a similar yet less intense state as of right now.

Robert Kennedy was impressive with the use of rhetoric saying,
“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or black.

I wish I could hear someone say that right now. I feel that this country has been divided in a red/blue state mentality. I feel that the gays, the illegal immigrants and the minorities are being labeled as second class citizens. We see gay’s being denied their equal rights every day. We see illegal immigrants being forced to work minimum wage jobs without any benefits. We see our country wire tapping citizens of Arabic descent, searching them in airports. I truly hope that there is someone out there that can turn this country in the right direction.

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