tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20755638.post4472066438708076141..comments2023-10-28T04:06:59.629-05:00Comments on Plaisted Writes: Rock and Roll High SchoolsMike Plaistedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18184502941014520240noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20755638.post-18132394352452440302007-02-08T21:56:00.000-06:002007-02-08T21:56:00.000-06:00Why is it that nobody on the left can engage the a...Why is it that nobody on the left can engage the arguments made by so-called Right-wing nuts without calling them racists or something? I thought you were supposed to be the smart ones...<BR/><BR/>An isolated fight on the east side is hardly a concern because it is just that--isolated. Few schools allow outside guests to attend dances etc. except for special occasions and restrictions. Bradley Tech is on a whole different level. I find it really curious that you would rather waste your time hurling stones at Belling and Sykes than address the real problem. People have been poor for a long time. Poverty is no excuse for violence--except to those who have never had to throw themselves between two enraged high-school students. Character is the issue, the poor character of the people involved in the Bradley Tech brawls.<BR/><BR/>And as far as choice goes--yeah, lets close down the choice program and trap the scholars trying to better themselves with the real parasites--the thugs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20755638.post-80367258642261095412007-02-04T17:41:00.000-06:002007-02-04T17:41:00.000-06:00Anonymous Above ^^
Please -- there have been pare...Anonymous Above ^^<br /><br />Please -- there have been parent vs. parent incidents and fights at sporting events at every single one of those suburbs and in every predominately white suburb in the country. Remember this? <br /><br />http://www.time.com/time/pow/article/0,8599,192891,00.html<br /><br />Why don't we hear about it? Because the same incidents are not covered (let alone the lead story). Our local news media can't resist a story that will give viewers' thinly-veiled racism an outlet -- it's too good for ratings (and rantings). <br /><br />Do you have children at MPS? My guess is no. With two highly successful children at MPS schools, I can testify that MPS is not a lost cause. MPS teachers and staff do a heroic job working in a district where poverty, segregation and a host of other socio-economic problems persist, not to mention the almost daily abuse they face in the media. <br /><br />Viewed against some of the laughable, parasitic, fly-by-night "solutions" we've seen as part of the choice program, I'll take MPS's challenges any day.Anne Quimby Mathiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06414548023922155661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20755638.post-37264689945359518902007-02-04T10:14:00.000-06:002007-02-04T10:14:00.000-06:00Jim Doyle proposes a study of why blacks end up in...Jim Doyle proposes a study of why blacks end up in prison disproportionately to white. You don't need a study for that because they perform a disproportionate amount of the crimes, usually against other blacks. There is no way the black community in Milwaukee and other large urban areas can ever prosper if it is full of thugs and criminals. Those people must be charged with the crimes against their fellow man and removed from the community. <br /><br />Public schools in Milwaukee are an absolute joke. They spent millions on Bradley Tech, and it has been a complete failure. In private schools, blacks actually prosper and achieve on the same level as whites. Why is this? Because private schools are a serious place of learning where they'll expel students that don't want to learn. I don't want another dime of my taxpayer money going to the failed Milwaukee public schools, and I'll fight like hell so black kids can have great access to successful private school. The budget for public schools in Milwaukee goes up and up each year, and we have nothing to show for it. <br /><br />Has White Fish Bay, Wauwatosa, Brookfield, etc. ever had the parents and relatives of children come to a fight at their school and the get in a brawl themselves? Guess what? When something like that happens people are acting like animals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20755638.post-91045776651839662402007-02-03T13:52:00.000-06:002007-02-03T13:52:00.000-06:00There are lots of problems in the black community,...There are lots of problems in the black community, not the least of which is an entire underclass falling through the bottom. The problems that resulted in the fight at Bradley Tech are not limited to disrespect, bad manners or people "acting like animals" as the racist Belling likes to say. <br /><br />The legacy of slavery, segregation and poverty -- only one of which no longer exists -- is still with us. When will Belling -- and, yes, you, Anony -- acknowledge those problems and do something about it other than take money out of the public schools to give to educational charlatans?<br /><br />Rather, you stand scantimoniously on the sidelines, constantly attacking those who show symptoms of society's disease. Could, should people act better? Sure. Do stupid white kids in similar circumstances act any different? Not on your life.Mike Plaistedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18184502941014520240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20755638.post-32994920205521302562007-02-03T12:43:00.000-06:002007-02-03T12:43:00.000-06:00Oh, please. There weren't several police officers...Oh, please. There weren't several police officers injured at the Nicolet/Whitefish Bay game. More importantly, people in white areas are killing each other at an incredible rate. The worst thing for the black community are white liberals who won't even acknowledge a problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20755638.post-41721615101871036752007-02-02T11:27:00.000-06:002007-02-02T11:27:00.000-06:00I saw the news reports about the altercation at Br...I saw the news reports about the altercation at Bradley Tech last night. It was amazing ... long views of students being wrestled to the ground. Then a brief seque to state that, to be fair, a fight had broken out at a Nicolet/Whitefish Bay game. Then immediately back to video of the Bradley Tech "massacre."<br /><br />It was a disgusting piece of racism ... perhaps buffered in the producers' minds because Carole Meekins was the co-talking head at the time.<br /><br />I was going to write on this seeming contradiction and you beat me to it. Well done.Other Sidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06475658453374184885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20755638.post-13670845005709445202007-02-02T09:59:00.000-06:002007-02-02T09:59:00.000-06:00Let me be the first to call for canceling the Whit...Let me be the first to call for canceling the Whitefish Bay and Nicolet basketball seasons!<br /><br />And not just the boys' games but the girls' games, too -- even though no one will notice the negligible difference. <br /><br />Those Bay and Nicolet kids ought to be hitting the books instead of playing sports, anyway, so they can keep being so much smarter than MPS kids -- and keep Mark Belling happy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20755638.post-29114063640463745642007-02-02T06:58:00.000-06:002007-02-02T06:58:00.000-06:00Later reports put the number of teens involved in ...<A HREF="http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=559528">Later reports</A> put the number of teens involved in the Bay-Nicolet fight at 15...but you're still right about Belling (and others) unjustifiably singling out the Tech-Bay View fight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com