Alabama Upholds Segregation

Well, Alabamians claimed to have opposed the amendment last time because of a bizarre, conspiratorial argument about it creating a right to education (the horror!), which would inevitably lead to courts forcing people to raise property taxes. So, this time it actually included a specific section that specifically spelled out that it created no right to education (Alabamian kids need to be kept good and stupid, otherwise they might turn into liberals), and they still defeated it. So, with that argument now pointless, it's clear that people in Alabama are just racist.
 
Dixie said:
No, we just didn't want the little black kids going to school with little white kids.
That's all it was about, Yurt, you're smart enough to realize that, right?
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You're just protecting your heritage. Your segregationist heritage. Just as you wave the Confederate flag, symbol of treason, in order to promote your heritage of slavery and racism, the slavery and racism of your slaving, racist ancestors. What great heritage the south has, truly something they should be proud of. If only Germans were as proud of their Nazi heritage as southerners are of their slaving, segregating, racist heritage, their heritage of hate.
 
Fluttershy said:
You're just protecting your heritage. Your segregationist heritage. Just as you wave the Confederate flag, symbol of treason, in order to promote your heritage of slavery and racism, the slavery and racism of your slaving, racist ancestors. What great heritage the south has, truly something they should be proud of. If only Germans were as proud of their Nazi heritage as southerners are of their slaving, segregating, racist heritage, their heritage of hate.
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Damn straight! Segregation NOW, Segregation FOREVER! Long live SLAVERY!

Don't bring the Krauts into this, Grandpappy died fighting the Krauts!

You want to support us? GO HERE: http://www.secularal.org/
 
Fluttershy said:
Well, Alabamians claimed to have opposed the amendment last time because of a bizarre, conspiratorial argument about it creating a right to education (the horror!), which would inevitably lead to courts forcing people to raise property taxes. So, this time it actually included a specific section that specifically spelled out that it created no right to education (Alabamian kids need to be kept good and stupid, otherwise they might turn into liberals), and they still defeated it. So, with that argument now pointless, it's clear that people in Alabama are just racist.
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Again for the slow-minded: The republican governor refused to sign a budget that would have put the state in the red, and after a statewide referendum to raise taxes failed, they concocted a "plan" to offset the education budget with a massive school tax. The problem is, a statewide school tax is unconstitutional in Alabama because the state constitution maintains public education is not a constitutional right. The actual part of the state constitution which stipulates this, does it using segregationist-era language. The Democrats attempted to remove this language, as well as the constraint on constitutionality of a school tax, under the false pretense it was about the segregationist language, which about 70% of the state saw through and rejected. In 2012, the Republicans, now in control of the state legislature, introduced the very same bill, with a reaffirmation of the non-constitutional right to education, prohibiting the state from adopting a statewide school tax. The primary forces AGAINST the measure, were http://www.secularal.org/ along with the same people who supported the Amendment in 2004.

Same bill, same segregationist language, the only difference in 2004 and 2012 is the constitutionality of public education. This has absolutely nothing to do with whether children need to be educated, it's about the power of the state to levy school taxes to pay for something the constitution allows them to pay for. Kids have no problem being educated in Alabama, we have truancy laws requiring kids to attend school until age 16. Parents can be put in jail for not complying, so this has absolutely ZERO to do with education.
 
While everyone is getting all worked upabout what was done in Alabama, has anyone found segregation in Alabama?

Are the schools segregated? Are the businesses allowed to discriminate based on race? Are there still segregated lunch counters?

The answers to those questions are all "No". So the isue here is what?
 
WinterBorn said:
While everyone is getting all worked upabout what was done in Alabama, has anyone found segregation in Alabama? Are the schools segregated? Are the businesses allowed to discriminate based on race? Are there still segregated lunch counters? The answers to those questions are all "No". So the isue here is what?
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You seem defensive.
 
WinterBorn said:
Do I? I think you are reading something into my statements that is not there.
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I think it bugs you when anyone mentions Alabama racism.


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I think it bugs you when anyone mentions Alabama racism.


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Hmmmm, at one time you berated me for not arguing with stereotypes and this sort of nonsense. Now you want to call me "defensive" because I point out that segregation is already gone, so added to, or taking away from, the state constitution is meaningless.

Do you have anything valid to say regarding the actual topic?
 
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