“Meh. Or I could learn those things on my own based on my interests or challenges I come acrossed. And not pay some university to teach me them.”

I studied math and physics, and spent the first two years of my working career building tools to kill people in batches for the U.S. Navy before the history, the ethics, and yes, the mythology classes I took in college helped me see what I was doing with my life. (Ronald Reagan using my work on a little island called…

“Dude I wrote code. Understanding social issues does nothing to help me do my job or add to the field.”

“Yeah but I got a STEM degree and that’s all I really wanted to pay for. I had no interest in paying to become a more rounded person.”

“And no, reading stuff off the web and Reddit forums isn’t the same as having a trained professor there to guide students on these very important subjects.”

“As to learning about other cultures, I’d be willing to bet that most non-white students will be taking a class about their own group.”

Education is supposed to leave the student educated. Trade school leave the student trained. There’s supposed to be a difference in the breadth of knowledge, and that’s why I had to take Shakespeare and World History and Linguistics and U.S. History in addition to math and physics. A couple of those gen ed classes…

It’s important to remember that we enlightened people of today will be judged in the future too. We can’t meet moral standards of a future that we didn’t live in and that will be better or worse largely based on our actions today.

My school had a principal who came to me before he made any big changes in how we operated to ask why we did it that way. Having been at the school since before the doors opened, having been in the district for a decade before that, having been on the union contract bargaining team for years, I usually knew, and after…

I wouldn’t argue that Lincoln wasn’t a racist as we understand the word today, but whatever he thought of Black people, there’s no doubt his actions moved Black people forward toward greater freedom and equality. Compare that to Trump and his repellent minions who are doing everything they can to push Black and brown…

“But no, the white supremacy is just obvious to most people.”

At that time and place, we needed someone who could see that slavery had to end and did what it took to end it even though he ended slavery as a means to an end, not an end in itself.

Your “authors” share painfully obvious personal opinions and it’s one of the worst forms of journalism I’ve seen in a time of total dog shit journalism.

Sounds to me like he wasn’t so much saying white was inherently superior but that one race was going to be on top, and since that was the case, he preferred his own on top. Living together as equals was not something he considered. 

How could Biden be more pro-segregation than a man who discriminated against Black people by refusing to rent apartments to them?

There was no “quiet part” back then.

Lincoln was anti-slavery, and perhaps he didn’t see Black people as lesser human beings but he certainly thought mixing with them was distasteful. His dream-plan was to repatriate Black people to Africa. Likewise, Johnson didn’t hate Black people, but he sure didn’t want them as neighbors.

Yeah, Carter, definitely. Not the most effective president, but certainly one of the best men to be president.

“Of the 45 presidents we have had I can say definitely that at least 2 but up to 5 who weren’t racist.”

People who have nothing to be proud of but their white skin have insecurities they seem to address by artificially keeping other people below them; if they didn’t have that white to make them somebody, they’d be nobody.