[Rhodes22-list] Mo Gubmint - Reality check

Chris Geankoplis napoli68 at charter.net
Mon Mar 10 01:10:12 EDT 2008


Brad Wrote:
inequities, we'll never make progress. If you want a working model for
> equality, social justice, and economic fairness, study the US military.
> Sorry for discussing the uncomfortable realities amongst polite company.

Brace your self boys and girls, but the military is as close to a socialists
government as you will find in North America, that from My careeier military
Dad quoting one of the more consertive generals of his time....I think it
was Le May of all people.  Wow guarenteed government housing, guarenteed
government health care and government education for all.  Oh and you get
paid pretty much the same as the next guy in the fox hole.

Chris G

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herb Parsons" <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Mo Gubmint - Politics & Educatio


> I'll precede this by saying that I'm NOT proposing that the military has
> always been a shining example of racial equality, or that they're
> somehow "perfect" today; but I WILL say they've typically been ahead of
> the curve compared to the rest of us.
>
> That said, I had to smile about the statement below. I grew up in a
> military family. I didn't know anyting about racism until my mother was
> divorced form my officer step-father, and felt "free to express her
> beliefs"
>
> It's difficult to try to convince yourself that "they" are somehow
> inferior, when you have to salute them and call them sir. All of the
> military bases I ever lived on were (from what I could see) race-neutral
> when it came to housing, use of ameneties (no "white only" NCO clubs or
> swimming pools).
>
> Brad Haslett wrote:
> > inequities, we'll never make progress. If you want a working model for
> > equality, social justice, and economic fairness, study the US military.
> > Sorry for discussing the uncomfortable realities amongst polite company.
> >
> >
>
> -- 
> Herb Parsons
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>
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