Forums Expose Failure in Education System

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Oh, boy. I'm channeling my gramps here, but when did we lose our way? Every now and again, I take a stroll down a forum, just to take the pulse of the internet populous. It's always a mistake because it destroys my carefully and painfully maintained hope that "In spite of it all, people are really good at heart". Annie, my girl, we can only hope.

Flossophy, a truly great thinker, posted this to an article on the Shepard Hate Crime Bill being attached to a defense bill which had a significant number of GOP no votes. "I'm looking forward to a world of mixed r@ce people. It'll make these ha'te crimes laws seem silly." First, Mr. Flossophy ( if that is your real name), you are a "mixed race person" as am I. Science tells us so. Second, where is the eloquence?

The issue of hate crimes is a legal issue built around a real problem. It simply means that if your motive was an irrational hatred of another person, your crime just got "bumped up". It doesn't imply any value judgment of a person's race, creed, color or orientation. It simply ups the ante on the crime. In schools, it would be referred to as a "No Tolerance" policy.

I'm rambling. My point is that we as a people should know this. It's simple everyday common sense, like the location of Canada and the name of our first president. Thomas Jefferson (Not our first president, by the way!) once said, "To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education." Oh, ain't it the truth!

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