Zone1 Man on the Street Video: Is Getting Rid of the Department of Education a Good Idea?

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Don't get me wrong, I love the state of Florida although it took some time for such a small predominantly white population such as Daytona Beach to grow on me after having grown up in the multi-cultural city of Los Angeles and being shielded from much of the bigotry and racism that flourished in the south. Also I knew very little about the details of our country's history so a lot of it was just not a concern.

Anyway, I suspect a huge segment of the country, young people particularly, just aren't concerned with a lot of crap that goes on at the higher levels of society & government. I myself never realized until recent years how intertwined politics and our legal systems, both criminal & civil actually are. But if you think it about, the U.S. was designed from the beginning to allow only "land-owning, white men" to participate in the running of the government. And if you are a person who is not of the majority, without anyone in the political genre to advocate for and protect the things that concern you and others similarly situated as you, then essentially you and your needs get left out. Or worse, legislation that harms you as a group gets passed with no one to even object to how it may encroach upon your rights.

The bottom line is though that it's very easy apparently to pass laws and approve actions that impact only the rights and circumstances of others, as long as it doesn't negatively impact or harm the ones passing & approving the legislation. It changes though when it begins to impact those who thought they never would be impacted.

Anyway, the quiz starts at 10:10 minutes if you want to just skip forward to the quiz.

 

[elektra]

Always nice to see a democrat open up a thread by claiming they were a victim of racism

Shielded from the bigotry and racism of white Daytona beach? There is no racism i. Daytona Beach.

The only shock I see is that you did not let out a sigh of relief, coming to such a low crime city such as Daytona beach compared to the crime hell you left behind.

Multi-cultural Los Angeles, where the Mexican gangs kill the Black gangs and vice versa and if you are Asian or white you best stay home at night.

Multicultural? No, you mean there is multi-races.

I don't see different cultures, and if there is, that must be stopped

 

[Captain Caveman]

There are millions of YouTube videos of Americans knowing diddly squat. So just yet another.

The video just indicates the department of education failed over the decades!!

 

[Stryder50]

Don't get me wrong, I love the state of Florida although it took some time for such a small predominantly white population such as Daytona Beach to grow on me after having grown up in the multi-cultural city of Los Angeles and being shielded from much of the bigotry and racism that flourished in the south. Also I knew very little about the details of our country's history so a lot of it was just not a concern.

Anyway, I suspect a huge segment of the country, young people particularly, just aren't concerned with a lot of crap that goes on at the higher levels of society & government. I myself never realized until recent years how intertwined politics and our legal systems, both criminal & civil actually are. But if you think it about, the U.S. was designed from the beginning to allow only "land-owning, white men" to participate in the running of the government. And if you are a person who is not of the majority, without anyone in the political genre to advocate for and protect the things that concern you and others similarly situated as you, then essentially you and your needs get left out. Or worse, legislation that harms you as a group gets passed with no one to even object to how it may encroach upon your rights.

The bottom line is though that it's very easy apparently to pass laws and approve actions that impact only the rights and circumstances of others, as long as it doesn't negatively impact or harm the ones passing & approving the legislation. It changes though when it begins to impact those who thought they never would be impacted.

Anyway, the quiz starts at 10:10 minutes if you want to just skip forward to the quiz.

A couple points of clarification;

1) Other than the Native Americans(Indians) and 'slaves' (mostly Black, but included others) in the colonies, the bulk/majority of the population was White, and likely didn't foresee that decades later so many non-English ethnics and races would immigrate to here. Heck they weren't certain what lay to the West of the first 13 colonies and if the new nation would expand much into that area - most of it belonging to France and Spain at the time.

2) The original phrase was to be "A Right to Life, Liberty, and Property", however some members of the convention raised the point that many(most?) of the colonists were renters and the "property" might seem an intended exclusion of them. Hence the inclusion of "the pursuit of Happiness". However they weren't thinking in the context of hedonistic pleasure as a primary definition of "happiness".

Which is why I've often proposed use of "prosperity" in place of "Pursuit of Happiness" (since prosperity often creates 'happiness').

3) In the English, and European, mindsets and traditions of that era, women were not thought of as having an interest or role in politics and government, so they also weren't considered in how to share power within self governance.

4) Also, the Founders didn't foresee that science and technology would advance and progress to the levels and extents we have today. Few, if any, considered a future filled with internal combustion traveling, electrical power/energy, and electronic communications that would traverse the globe, among other inventions that we have had to integrate into the generalized document of the Constitution.

Bottom line is that hind-sight often sees as obvious what fore-sight couldn't conceive of as existing.

 

[apolitical]

tldr

short answer....yes

 

[Billiejeens]

A couple points of clarification;

1) Other than the Native Americans(Indians) and 'slaves' (mostly Black, but included others) in the colonies, the bulk/majority of the population was White, and likely didn't foresee that decades later so many non-English ethnics and races would immigrate to here. Heck they weren't certain what lay to the West of the first 13 colonies and if the new nation would expand much into that area - most of it belonging to France and Spain at the time.

2) The original phrase was to be "A Right to Life, Liberty, and Property", however some members of the convention raised the point that many(most?) of the colonists were renters and the "property" might seem an intended exclusion of them. Hence the inclusion of "the pursuit of Happiness". However they weren't thinking in the context of hedonistic pleasure as a primary definition of "happiness".

Which is why I've often proposed use of "prosperity" in place of "Pursuit of Happiness" (since prosperity often creates 'happiness').

3) In the English, and European, mindsets and traditions of that era, women were not thought of as having an interest or role in politics and government, so they also weren't considered in how to share power within self governance.

4) Also, the Founders didn't foresee that science and technology would advance and progress to the levels and extents we have today. Few, if any, considered a future filled with internal combustion traveling, electrical power/energy, and electronic communications that would traverse the globe, among other inventions that we have had to integrate into the generalized document of the Constitution.

Bottom line is that hind-sight often sees as obvious what fore-sight couldn't conceive of as existing.

Like turning property into people with the stroke of a pen.

 

[Dragonlady]

Always nice to see a democrat open up a thread by claiming they were a victim of racism

Shielded from the bigotry and racism of white Daytona beach? There is no racism i. Daytona Beach.

The only shock I see is that you did not let out a sigh of relief, coming to such a low crime city such as Daytona beach compared to the crime hell you left behind.

Multi-cultural Los Angeles, where the Mexican gangs kill the Black gangs and vice versa and if you are Asian or white you best stay home at night.

Multicultural? No, you mean there is multi-races.

I don't see different cultures, and if there is, that must be stopped

I love how you comment on life in Los Angeles from some troll farm in St. Petersburg.

When I retired and moved from Toronto (45% white) to rural Ontario (more than 80% white - non-white are Indigineous people living on the 6 Nations Reserve), the thing I missed most was the diversity. White people, in large groups are BORING.

Toronto is the most diverse city in the world, and it's that diversity that gives it energy, and spirit, and people bouncing ideas off one another. When you see a group of kids walking down the street, there's a couple of white kids, a couple of Asians, and a couple of black kids.

My neighbourhood poker game was the same: 1/3 white, 1/3 black, 1/3 Asian. There are 3 Chinatowns, Little Italy, Greektown on the Danforth. There used to be a "Caravan Festival" every summer, where neighbourhood communities centres would celebrate a cultural community in the City - there were more than 100 "pavillions", and you bought a "Passport". There were singers, dancers, native costumes, and traditional foods.

I really miss the energy, the creativity, and the food. White people in large groups, are BORING.