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Texas Group Will Offer Scholarships To White Men Only

Ar u Implying tHat bLacks haVe had equAl riGhts fOr mOrE thAn 20 yRz?

They DO have equal rights... they may NOT have "equal opportunity", but many White ethnic groups don't either. It is generally only Blacks and liberals who lump all Whites together... most Whites don't do this...
 
It is generally only Blacks and liberals who lump all Whites together... most Whites don't do this...

It's generally only conservatives who lump blacks and liberals together into a group that lumps all whites together. :)
 
It's generally only conservatives who lump blacks and liberals together into a group that lumps all whites together. :)

Nice dodge, but you can't handle the truth of the statement... As a Catholic Franco-American, I never identified with Anglo Protestant Fundamentalists...
 
Nice dodge, but you can't handle the truth of the statement...

Please source evidence that those who lean liberal tend to lump all whites into a single group. Then I'll buy into the 'truth' of your empty statement.

(if any of what were talking about even makes any sense at all)
 
Please source evidence that those who lean liberal tend to lump all whites into a single group. Then I'll buy into the 'truth' of your empty statement.

(if any of what were talking about even makes any sense at all)

It's called life experience... do you have any??? I am a white ethnic and I have seen it all my life...
 
Do not Generalze a group. Everything should be taken on individual bases. Being White I came from a poor family and had none of that stuff that you mention.

Well this is why I consider the military to be a welfare institution and it's a great thing; it's possibly one of the very few institutions that facilitate social mobility and allow the underprivileged people in society to rise up faster, with benefits such as scholarships and the GI Bill. But I agree that racial groups are not a monolithic entity and that generalizing has its consequences.
 
Well this is why I consider the military to be a welfare institution and it's a great thing; it's possibly one of the very few institutions that facilitate social mobility and allow the underprivileged people in society to rise up faster, with benefits such as scholarships and the GI Bill. But I agree that racial groups are not a monolithic entity and that generalizing has its consequences.

For some reason am offended by that statement. How is the military a welfare institution just because it doesn't judge by race?
 
For some reason am offended by that statement. How is the military a welfare institution just because it doesn't judge by race?

That's not what I said, and I'm offended that you think "welfare" is a bad word :) To me welfare means giving people the opportunity to rise up and overcome challenges including the circumstances of their birth and starting place and society. The military does that and that's what makes it a welfare/social institution.
 
Can't accept reality, can you???

False move, checkmate. Wingers fall for this one all the time.

You have no dictatorship over 'reality' my friend. Your reality is subjective.

It is generally only Blacks and liberals who lump all Whites together... most Whites don't do this...

I don't even know what to make of the statement or how you can find it to be a fact or representative of any frame of reality except that of the political culture you're acclimated to or your own perception of race relations.
 
That's not what I said, and I'm offended that you think "welfare" is a bad word :) To me welfare means giving people the opportunity to rise up and overcome challenges including the circumstances of their birth and starting place and society. The military does that and that's what makes it a welfare/social institution.

It's not really Welfare since we work for are pay,promotions, ETC. A welfare program gives help to those in need with nothing required in return for the most part. I just think that Welfare is wrong way to describe the Military. Just better to say the Military is color blind. =)
 
False move, checkmate. Wingers fall for this one all the time.

You have no dictatorship over 'reality' my friend. Your reality is subjective.



I don't even know what to make of the statement or how you can find it to be a fact or representative of any frame of reality except that of the political culture you're acclimated to or your own perception of race relations.

Sorry, once again, you show that people's life experience means nothing to you...
 
It's not really Welfare since we work for are pay,promotions, ETC. A welfare program gives help to those in need with nothing required in return for the most part. I just think that Welfare is wrong way to describe the Military. Just better to say the Military is color blind. =)

That is also one thing I love about sports. Today, that is also color blind. The best athlete wins, regardless of color... When I am on course, it isn't my color, language or creed that is going to get me to the finish line, it is the hard work I have put into it... Military and sports have done more to advance race relations in America than any other institutions in society...
 
Sorry, once again, you show that people's life experience means nothing to you...

Four stars, bravo, no ****, citing subjective life experiences and attempting to convey them as discrete fact means nothing. o(~.')b
I can play the tiniest violin in the world elsewhere. We'll discuss experiences when we want to.

many White ethnic groups don't either. It is generally only Blacks and liberals who lump all Whites together... most Whites don't do this...

My personal experience is that whites view themselves mostly as a single race in the US and largely homogenized. 50-60 years ago I'd gamble differently. I'll tell you what IS known though. Whites tend to categorize all blacks together, 'blackness' being an identity created by whites.
 
That's not what I said, and I'm offended that you think "welfare" is a bad word :) To me welfare means giving people the opportunity to rise up and overcome challenges including the circumstances of their birth and starting place and society. The military does that and that's what makes it a welfare/social institution.

That's erroneous. If you don't cut the mustard in the service, your ass is out. There are no hand-ups, hand-outs, oppurtunities to rise up, or any of that other warm and fuzzy crap. The only oppurtunity you have, is to make the grade, or do the duffle-bag-drag on your way back home.
 
That's not what I said, and I'm offended that you think "welfare" is a bad word :) To me welfare means giving people the opportunity to rise up and overcome challenges including the circumstances of their birth and starting place and society. The military does that and that's what makes it a welfare/social institution.

To me, getting a job means having the opportunity to rise up and overcome challenges, including the circumstances of birth and starting place in society. That's why the military is a good place to work, and advance.
 
Are you kidding? With today's low recruitment rates it's very, very hard to get kicked out for something like incompetence. You'll get punished, sure, but not cut off from the teet of the american taxpayer. My best friend has told me enough stories about incompetence in the Army he's seen over the past 3 years to back this up with lots of examples. Plus the stories I've heard from my two cousins in the Marines and Navy (both career), and another friend in the Airforce.

A good chunk of those in the military are basically those who can't succeed in the real world, and drag down the service for those who don't join up for self-serving reasons.
 
Why no give scholarships to people who are most likely to graduate?

California is spending billions of dollars each year to run minorities in the front door only to have the go out the back door in the first year. I think that the reason they do it is to keep the schools going and to pat themselves on the back for helping the minorities understand just how dumb they are.

Barry wants every student to have a seat in college. As if the 50% of minorities that don’t get out of high school should have or would use a seat in college.

Back to the subject at hand: these guys will be sued by the NAACP, attacked physically by the Black Panthers, maligned by the left wing media and chatted about in derogatory terms on the web. Kids who get the money that they raise will be discriminated against by the teachers and will have hell passing.

I wouldn’t take their money if I wanted to get out of college alive.
 
Are you kidding? With today's low recruitment rates it's very, very hard to get kicked out for something like incompetence. You'll get punished, sure, but not cut off from the teet of the american taxpayer. My best friend has told me enough stories about incompetence in the Army he's seen over the past 3 years to back this up with lots of examples. Plus the stories I've heard from my two cousins in the Marines and Navy (both career), and another friend in the Airforce.

A good chunk of those in the military are basically those who can't succeed in the real world, and drag down the service for those who don't join up for self-serving reasons.

LOL low. First off were do you get that? The Marine Corps is actually over it's number for overall Marines.
 
Also each Unit is has it's Idiots but overall there are good and smart people in the Military leadership postions. (NCO to General Officers)
 
Are you kidding? With today's low recruitment rates it's very, very hard to get kicked out for something like incompetence. You'll get punished, sure, but not cut off from the teet of the american taxpayer. My best friend has told me enough stories about incompetence in the Army he's seen over the past 3 years to back this up with lots of examples. Plus the stories I've heard from my two cousins in the Marines and Navy (both career), and another friend in the Airforce.

A good chunk of those in the military are basically those who can't succeed in the real world, and drag down the service for those who don't join up for self-serving reasons.

Keep believing that. Anyone that can't make it in the real world, probably won't make it in the service.
 
Well yeah, for the most part the NCOs and COs are quite impressive, but so many people simply use the military as either a government-paid scholarship program or simply choose it over working at dairy queen for their entire lives as they view it as setting them up for life (which it certainly can)

Again, this info comes from casual conversations I've had with those I know who serve. I know that my best friend basically just joined the military because he never liked school and it was the only career that required basically no school aptitude to succeed in.
 
Keep believing that. Anyone that can't make it in the real world, probably won't make it in the service.

Really? With all the FOBbits going over seas for 6 months then coming back claiming all sorts of disability expecting the government to set them up for life because they had to sit in a tent for 6 months?
 
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