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Friday, August 5, 2016

Punishment At UH Gives Us A Glimpse of the Future

By Michael Ware August 3, 2016

There is no doubt that every generation looks down its nose at the next generation.  They believe they have no clue and are moving away from the moors of their society.  I try to remember that as I deal with twenty-somethings.  I was once them.  But, there are times that this judgment is valid.  There are times that the actions of the educated, leaders of the next generation show that their values are not the values of the past.  Such a time has come in the case of school body government at the University of Huston.

Fox reports
a student at the university who was suspended for 50 days by the student government association and ordered to attend diversity training over a reference she made about the Black Lives Matter crowd. (She can still go to class but she can’t participate in student government activities.)  “#ForgetBlackLivesMatter; more like AllLivesMatter,” wrote Rohini Sethi, the vice president of the school’s student government association.
There was much made of these comments.  It is not that the people did not believe that “all lives” did in fact matter.  No, the issue is that this young lady did not feel as if black lives mattered more than others......To Read More...

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