Horowitz (revisited, Dated Nov 2005)

When you walk out of a meeting like I did the other night, you are stunned. Stunned at what was said and how this acclaimed individual acted like a spoiled brat. Sometimes your mind is just so overrun you can't think clearly. Tuesday, it was just one asinine statement after another. I wrote a long piece on the meeting yesterday, but you know how you go over and over the speech in your mind and you just get more and more upset and angry.

New Orleans was a major hashing point for him. He was upset about how the media keeps claiming that Bush was on vacation and not doing anything for the people in New Orleans. He was upset that people automatically assumed that meant Bush hated black people. Trust me his best friend is black. He was upset that there was hardly any blame for Ray Negin's failure to move people out of New Orleans.There all reasonable points to make but please Mr. David Horowitz do not use race to prove an argument.

Such as: Ray Negin is a black mayor and a corrupt mayor. The New Orleans Police Department the most corrupt police department in the country and its a black run police department. First of all, everyone knows that New Orleans is a corrupt city, not because its black, but because its corrupt. Its been corrupt for a hundred years and it will be corrupt for the next hundred years. Negin may be a corrupt mayor, because he is corrupt, not because he's black. Maybe the media did not want to heavily criticize him because he's black, or maybe they did because at first he was the one going through the ringer in the media or maybe you just make up shit.

Horowitz comes to our campus on his high horse. Speaks about our faculty like he knows it. Condemns our teachers like he has sat in on a class. Blames everyone for not standing up to the teachers. If you assume everyone is against you then everyone will be against you. Many people can all read the same thing and take away different opinions but obviously you're reading in a different language. Even if teachers don't believe what you believe they can still teach, and teach well. If you're worried about kids and schools worry about high schools, thats where the real problems are.