Comments on: Nation’s Growing Diversity Still Frightens Some Americans

By: DeniseForHire

DeniseForHire — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:23:00 +0000

Diversity might be difficult to achieve, but the minorities and majority both harbor resentment towards each other – it’s not only the majority thinking they will lose their “rank” in society. In an economy as bad as this one the minorities are quite angry for being denied the same chances and wages to improve their living conditions and lifestyles. We all want one of the same things for ourselves, which is financial security, and we’re all competing to earn the same dollar. Competition is never conducive to all of us living in [eventually] harmony together.

By: JackieAllen

JackieAllen — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:37:00 +0000

Lynda—When I was a little girl, my mother, my sister and I would drive to Denver, Colo. where mother would finally rceive her Ph.D in speech and hearing pathology. Denver was
not segregated like FOrt WOrth, and I asked my mother why that was.? Black and white people
were married, had children whom I played with in the sand box. MOther always told me that
it was not right, the way Texas seperated the races. As I grew up, I was in the eighth grade
when Rosa Parks had to give up her seat on the bus. From then on, I followed the Civil Rights
movement–King became a hero of mine, and we watched the entire thing unfold on the TV in
our kitchen. I never stopped watching. I donated to Dr. King’s monument and am a member of
the NAACP, Southern Povert Law, etc. As an educator, a retired one now, I can say without
pause that people who never experienced another race, or who were not raised to believe
that God would not want his children to be treated in awful ways, can call themselves
Christians. People like this cannot see how much harm they have done to our society–
the wasted talent, lost ambitions, lost lives. The GOP has been a major contributor to all
of this hate by aligning themselves with hate groups and even churches who are a disgrace
to mankind.

By: Bobby Solomon

Bobby Solomon — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:24:00 +0000

Did you see how diverse the European Olympic basketball and soccer teams were? Canada, Australia, and Britain’s entire teams? And how old-fashioned the equestrians from the West looked. The times, they are a-changing.
Diversity comes more easily in some places,e.g. to newly Asian-majority Vancouver BC than to old WASPy State College, PA, but it’s coming. We adapt or pass away, nature tells us.
Rednecks may doubt Darwin, but their confusion is anachronistic nativism. Their kids will find diversity exciting, the way Cynthia’s young friends have. When I was a lad in Philly, we had “race radio”, all-white reporters, and Irish gangs. Now Philly has street signs in Mandarin, Spanish, and Korean, as well as English, black council members, Walt Whitman’s “America, Singing” a hundred songs in a score of tongues.

And the music I hear when I visit carries more “race”, more “races”, than Stephen Foster’s
“Darktown Strutters” dreamed possible! The race is not finished, nor racism, but the team is ready.

By: Mikey2222

Mikey2222 — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 02:00:00 +0000

Perhaps if the constituency Ms. Tucker seems obsessed with writing about stopped the murder and mayhem they visit on their own families, neighbors, strangers and anyone else who happens along in their quest for drugs, normal folks might be a little less apprehensive.

None of the bleeding heart Liberals who frequent this website would open their homes or their families to the savage element that is pervasive in the minority communities. Perhaps a little tough love is in order. All of the slobbering excuses and alibis haven’t changed the outcomes since time immemorial.

By: WizdomManifest

WizdomManifest — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:26:00 +0000

Preach!… like Cynthia Tucker tactfully explained, it’s an animal response. Poor little ignorant soul. We’ll pray that they read more

By: Elisabeth Gordon

Elisabeth Gordon — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:08:00 +0000

Lynda – when one argues with fools it only serves to prove there are two….and I KNOW you are not a fool, but please stop trying to enlighten those who by their very definition cannot be….onedonewrong is the worst of them I fear….

By: Elisabeth Gordon

Elisabeth Gordon — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:57:00 +0000

Lynda – well said, but the only ones who will say that are the members of the chior (to whom you are preaching) – the ones that should read your blog and look into their very souls will NEVER do so – they will simply go on living their racist and right-winged lives….so sad….

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:56:00 +0000

The repubs have never made a secret of it. But Americans have not paid attention.’A republican proudly stated that he wanted to’ shrink government until it was small enough to drown it in a bathtub.’the inority leader of the Senate, in thw midst of one of the worse recessions in history, stated that his goal was to” make sure Oboma was a one term president”, not to help the AMERICAN PEOPLE. The house seems ready to censure any politician that works with the opposition to help americans. Republicxan governors and legislatures are consumed with denying voting rights to americans who do not think like them. Basically the repubs want to destroy the United States of America and see the rise of a new CORPORATE AMERICA!

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:48:00 +0000

you must be lost in the fog.

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:43:00 +0000

Absolutely… his fellow professor said he was Lazy, ill prepared and knew little of the course material. That’s why he was asked to leave after 1 semester.
He was elected to office in his state by getting the previous office holder disqualified.

Absolutely it was done without merit his WHOLE life is without merit, hence the reason why we have 12% unemployment and $10 Trillion in new debt