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Rooster wrote:The term "racist" has lost any and all sting or weight that it once had.

schmick wrote:When you were 13 years old did you have to say the pledge in both English and spanish at school? Were you banned from playing football on the school fields during PE becase all of the ESL students thought of it as racist to play anything but socqueer? Were your school announcements in spanish?

BSmack wrote:

schmick wrote:When you were 13 years old did you have to say the pledge in both English and spanish at school? Were you banned from playing football on the school fields during PE becase all of the ESL students thought of it as racist to play anything but socqueer? Were your school announcements in spanish?

Do you see how much Ronaldo makes? Hell yeah I wish our school and had a soccer team. I played football. I sucked. I did it to proove I could hack football. But I would have played Futbol had it been offered.

And it would have been really really cool if we had been bilingual. Because that's all of us could have walked out of school with the capability to get a job anywhere in the Western Hemisphere other than maybe Haiti. When the fuck did it become a bad thing to learn another language? Or for that matter to watch immigrants pledge loyalty to our country in their mother tongue?

smackaholic wrote: I agree that being bilingual would be cool. It certainly makes anyone more marketable in many places, but it should not be imposed on anyone. You should become bilingual because you chose to, not because you were forced to.

Police officer under investigation after flying Confederate flag at Trump protest rally

TRAVERSE CITY - The Traverse City police chief says the department will launch an internal investigation after a longtime officer was seen revving the engine of his pickup truck and flying a Confederate flag, as he drove past a black family participating in a rally at a city park.
Marshall Collins Jr. and his relatives were at Friday's gathering where people were protesting Donald Trump's election when he said the truck's driver came by once, then sped back past where his family was standing.

"As he came back by, I kind of stood out and I held up my fist very quietly. For me, that's a sign of solidarity and black pride. So that's what I did," said Collins, a father of two and an instructional services health coordinator for the Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District.

He said the officer made a show of grabbing a beer and joining a small pro-Trump group in a parking area. That's when Collins said he decided to address the issue.

Collins said he asked the truck's driver - whom he did not know was an off-duty police officer - why he would bring the Confederate flag to a community gathering. "I said, 'Do you know what this represents? Do you understand the hatred?'"

"He said, 'You don't know the history of it ...That flag didn't do anything to you.'"

Screw_Michigan wrote:

smackaholic wrote: I agree that being bilingual would be cool. It certainly makes anyone more marketable in many places, but it should not be imposed on anyone. You should become bilingual because you chose to, not because you were forced to.

What a load of bullshit. Colleges and even many high schools have foreign language requirements. But I forget, Suckaholic is an oppressed white American male. Angry that he has to fight for economic success instead of sitting on his ass and having it handed to him at a 40 hour clip.

Mikey wrote:I had foreign language requirements in both HS and college. Not exactly a new Millennial Snowflakey thing. Probably fewer public schools requiring it these days mostly due to budget cuts.

But then I guess it should be optional. So should Math, English, History, PE, etc. I mean look how far suckaholic has come without learning any of those.