AKA_Monet, my interest lies in the fact that I am a 43 year old white male from Texas who hasn't been to college in 20 years. Reviewing this board I found a number of young, educated, females, from the east and west coasts. Exactly the type of people that I don't have contact with on a daily basis. This curiousity began when I attended a forum at Butler University in Indianapolis, In last Sept. and was surprised at the lack of knowledge of the history of the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. in general displayed by university students. This was of great concern to me. They were not the least bit interested in the 'whys' and 'hows' of anything, more of a tell me how it is and let's move on attitude. Seems that they didn't care at all. The problem with this is the absence of a thought process and the students are taking whatever the professors tell them at face value and without question. It is no surprise to me to find that people are perfectly willing to then trample on rights that they do not understand. To give law enforcement wide leeway in enforcement of search and seizure for drugs is finally meeting some resistance, but if those same law enforcement groups are going after guns people say that is okay. Diane Feinstein has even advocated troops going door to door to seize firearms, but by her own admission only if she thought that she could get away with it. That attitude scares me.
Please forgive my ignorance of black issues. The issues affecting blacks interest me because I know so little of black culture. I attended a private school and the high school had 1000 students of which only 4 where black. As a consultant I work with few black people, though the ones that I have worked with in the private sector have been VERY good. My only regular contact is with a young lady that I have dated some over the last year. She is a 26 year old Purdue graduate that works for my current client. We don't work together, but see each other in the company work out room. I have learned much from her. In fact I just learned about a month ago that ALL black people have curly hair. She never did until recently and she explained to me that she has always used a hair straightener or relaxer to keep it from curling. I am 43 and never knew that. Learn something new every day.
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