Ohio State’s University Police are
investigating after someone spray-painted “Long Live
Zimmerman” on the campus’ black cultural center.
University newspaper The Lantern reported that the
racially-charged graffiti was apparently left Wednesday night
or early Thursday morning on the Hale Hall building, which
houses the Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center. The
message is thought to be in support of George Zimmerman, a
Florida neighborhood watchmen who admitted to the February
killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American teen.
“Ignorance is bliss,” Frank W. Hale Black Cultural
Center Executive Director Larry Williamson told 10TV.
“We want the person brought to trial, caught. We want to
make sure these kinds of things don’t happen.”
Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee insisted in a
statement that police were “vigorously investigating the
incident.”
“Early this morning, I learned of a racially charged act
of vandalism at our Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural
Center,” Gee said. “Let me be very clear: This is
not who we are at Ohio State. Racism will not be tolerated on
our campus.”
The graffiti has since been power-washed from the building.
Williamson said that security would also be increased in that
area of campus.
So
where does all America's bigotry come from? It’s an age old
question that no one (especially experts) seems to have a strong
enough desire to answer. (or just maybe there is no acceptable
answer) Of course we know human beings have the capacity to
detest one another to the point of wanting to erase certain
individuals or groups from existence. Many feel a
satisfaction in hatred and actually enjoy it. It is well, sort of
a release valve (through rationalizing) for the inadequacies they
mentally experience. They feel abused within the system
they live and need scapegoats to blame all this hurt upon. Also
they endure inferiority and exhibiting intolerant behavior, gives
them someone to look down on; which in return gives them a
feeling of EXALTATION.
As
long as we have the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill
O’Reilly, Michael Savage and Ann Coulter et.al, who espouse
bigotry and hate, over the airwaves; processing and editing their
listeners and viewers thoughts for them, there will forever be
repulsive occurrences like this. I wish we could find a cure
because it is just like a cancer that will, slowly and eventually
destroy the whole civilized system we (all of us) live in.
Oddly,
that appears to be exactly what the far right-wing long for.
thinkingblue
PS:
BTW, Homeschooling also adds quite a bit of hate and fear to the
mix… (PITY THE LITTLE CHILDREN WHO LEARN (from their
parents) TO BE AFRAID TO LIVE.)
EXCERPTS: Homeschooling has become so
popular with fundamentalist Christians because, “there
is an atmosphere of real terror among some evangelicals. They
are horrified by the fact that Obama is president, and they
see the New Atheist movement as a vocal, in-your-face threat.
Plus, they are obsessed with the End Times, and believe that
the Apocalypse could happen any day now...They see a demon on
every corner.
“We homeschooled because we wanted
to protect our children from what we viewed as the total
secularization of America. We listened to people like Rush
Limbaugh, who told us that America was in the clutches of
evil liberal feminist atheists.”
Evil
LIBERALS, FEMINISTS and ATHEISTS, Oh My!!!
Ignorance
is NOT bliss but for hate-mongers like Rush Limbaugh, it pays off
BIG$$$$$$
In recent weeks, homeschooling has
received nationwide attention because of Republican
presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s homeschooling
family. Though Santorum paints a rosy picture of
homeschooling in the United States, and calls attention to
the “responsibility” all parents have to take their
children’s education into their own hands, he fails to
acknowledge the very real potential for educational neglect
among some homeschooling families – neglect that has
been taking place for decades, and continues to this day.
While the practice of homeschooling is new to many people, my
own interest in it was sparked nearly 20 years ago. I was a
socially awkward adolescent with a chaotic family life, and
became close to a conservative Christian homeschooling family
that seemed perfect in every way. Through my connection to
this family, I was introduced to a whole world of
conservative Christian homeschoolers, some of whom we would
now consider “Quiverfull” families: homeschooling
conservatives who eschew any form of family planning and
choose instead to “trust God” with matters related
to procreation.
Though I fell out of touch with my homeschooled friends as we
grew older, a few years ago, I reconnected with a few
ex-Quiverfull peers on a new support blog called No Longer
Quivering. Poring over their stories, I was shocked to find
so many tales of gross educational neglect. I don’t
merely mean that they had received what I now view as an
overly politicized education with huge gaps, for example, in
American history, evolution or sexuality. Rather, what
disturbed me were the many stories about homeschoolers who
were barely literate when they graduated, or whose math and
science education had never extended much past middle school.
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“Socialism never took root in America because
the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as
temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
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