While I agree with Charlie on some issues, the preference of shutting down an opinion board rather than minority students hearing what a few in the community think of members who make the paper for the crimes they commit is where he and I butt heads. No doubt he fears for the state of their self-esteem, but how effective is it to create this faux world for kids where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies aren’t cloudy all day? And then they leave home and it’s hello cruel world and they fail to succeed in adulthood.
I always detected enough levity in Nicknack’s posts to assure me that he wasn’t the kind to go burn crosses in minority’s yards like Democrats used to and felt that in his own unique way he indirectly challenged members of said communities to own what is a very disturbing level of violence of crime and work to combat it, starting with themselves.
Directly, he challenged this idea that Charlie Chrystle and other pastety white liberals have that minorities don’t have what it takes to succeed in life unless they have people like Charlie to take them under their wing. With government programs to take care of everything in the name of eradicating poverty, the young men sit around bored to death and just want to kill themselves or someone. At the very least Nicknack understood that the first step to overcoming a problem is to admit that you have one.
Meanwhile the Charlie Chrystles of the world esteem themselves much more highly than they ought and don’t care whose opportunity to opine they trounce as they with the best of intentions mind you, grease the skids for yet another generation of children.
So Nicknack’s racism is good for minorities.
Unbelievable.