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  ... so you're saying A&M is an ex-battered wife?

  I don't see how it's relevant, but my top choice for law school is Texas. I believe I've said that here before.

This thread is less a political discussion than it is a historical and social discussion. Hence why you find it on this board and not the political forum. Mods, feel free to move it if you feel it necessary.   [Hidden Content]   The link above leads to the text of the address delivered by Booker T. Washington to the Cotton States & International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 18, 1895. The overall point of the address is summed up in two paragraphs in particular:     Washington essentially states in the address that the black population of the South can never truly achieve equality via artificial means - that in order for blacks and whites to truly be equal, blacks must achieve parity in their skills, vocations and abilities as a means of achieving economic equality first, and then social equality thereafter. In essence, Washington is advocating for the black population of the south to develop itself via education and vocational training with white assistance, as a means of earning social and economic equality for itself, rather than being given it via legislation after continued white oppression.   This, of course, never came to be. Rather than take a proactive step toward the building of a better South, Southern whites made Jim Crow the norm, which led to continued notions of racial superiority, the perpetuation of stereotypes and a social, educational and economic gap between the black and white populations arguably as large at the end of Jim Crow as it was at the beginning.   When the end of that oppression finally came, just as Washington suggested, many tried to find the solution to the inequality it engendered. However, they did not follow Washington's advice; indeed, they did the exact opposite. Rather than seeking to improve black education and vocational training, they sought to create parity through the exact artificial means that Washington clearly stated would never work. Instead of providing blacks in the South with the means to attain the same skills as whites entering the workforce, affirmative action legislation sought to give blacks special consideration in the hiring process to make up for previous oppression. Instead of providing black communities with a better quality of primary and secondary education as a means of making higher education, and thus professional careers with higher wages, a more attainable goal, legislators and university officials alike sought to, often unconstitutionally, make under-represented minority status an objective credential in the application process.   These measures did not eliminate the disadvantages blacks faced as Washington sought to do, they merely compensated for them, and arguably perpetuated them by accident in the process.   Indeed, five decades after the "Great Society" legislation was passed, what do we have to show for it? The black population in particular suffers the worst rates of high school and college graduation, unemployment, incarceration and social disintegration of any demographic in the country's population. This comes after trillions of dollars spent through countless legislative efforts on more social programs than could be listed at a single sitting to eliminate these statistical gaps.   This presents us with a question: is the "new Jim Crow" really the set of policies put in place to deal with the effects of the old Jim Crow? Was the fundamental mistake in the "Great Society" its paternalistic approach? That is, would the "Great Society" goal of achieving economic and social equality across racial lines be better served by an approach that focused on the development of the black population economically and educationally to eliminate that inequality, as opposed to the mere provision of sustenance to compensate for that inequality? Could it not be said that this paternalism is the direct result of the racial superiority complex mentioned earlier, rather than a solution presented by a white Congress that truly considered black citizens their equals? And further, is that provision of sustenance, which has obviously only served to stagnate or undermine the black demographic in every statistical category over half a century, not a new form of oppression carried out through pacification instead of forced servitude?

I'm a college student who doesn't have the money to pay for a membership on the Alabama forum. That said, you can bet your oversized ego that if I did have an account there, I'd be saying the same thing.

A&M won't make the same mistakes K-State did, and they'll make much more effective use of our secondary's issues than Florida did. They get LSU at home, and if Sumlin doesn't let the Tigers get on a roll the same way Miss St didn't let them and the same way Nick Saban has put a stop to it for the the last four LSU games, they'll beat LSU. The biggest problem I see for the Aggies is another potential shootout with Ole Miss. I don't think Miss St can beat them and I'd bet Arkansas and Missouri can't.   I think its the Aggies' to lose. The biggest thing that Alabama, LSU and Auburn have working for them against A&M is plenty of time to get ready. Conversely, all three may be pretty beat up by the time they play the Aggies.

The Tuskegee Institute estimates that the KKK has been responsible for the deaths of approximately 2,000 people total in its entire 150 year history.   Al Qaeda, from which the much more powerful, dangerous and murderous ISIS is derived, killed 2,996 in 102 minutes during an attack you could see from space.   To call both organizations horrid would be accurate. To call them comparable would be asinine.   Due to the obvious dissimilarity between the natures, ideologies, and destructive capacities of the two organizations, and the immediacy of the threat presented by ISIS as opposed to the defunct state of the KKK, I see no way that the KKK can be considered relevant to the topic of this thread.   Moving on.

  No it is not. Have you ever actually been to Starkville? It makes College Station look like Manhattan.

  The only thing you're going for is the game, because there isn't much there besides the university. Trust me.

Classic LSU freight train syndrome. Train just left the station too late this time.

Sloppy, sloppy game. Way too many turnovers and the secondary, while improved, is still scaring me. We won this game because of depth.

  Maybe not, but they say everything's bigger in Texas for a reason....

Same here. Never met the kids, but never heard a bad word about him.

Alabama typically does short features on the jumbotron before the game to recognize athletes for their academic and athletic accomplishments. Today's was about Hayden Reed, who graduated from LC-M in 2013 and now competes for Alabama in discus. Pretty cool to see a fellow Southeast Texan on the big screen. Thought I'd share and give the LC-M fans something to be proud of.

  This, coming from a Texas fan?

[Hidden Content]   "Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot a like." - Bear Bryant

  No argument here.   And Auburn's luck ran out with 14 seconds left in the national championship.

I thought K-State looked more talented and Auburn looked lucky.

  If they're in Australia, I can guarantee you they're here. And they probably came across the border with Mexico. Want to guess where that most likely puts them?

I'm not. All the people who hated it there moved here.

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Man. No wonder we're a blue county.   :D

Or that they aren't intelligent.

Were they looking at just the city or the entire MSA?

  25% is all? How many of those kids actually get much playing time?   The other schools you mentioned aren't commuter schools. Granted, Lamar is doing its best to fight that reputation and is having some success, but the bottom line is, Lamar's student population comes overwhelmingly from the Golden Triangle. I don't think you can say that of the rest of those schools. And even if you could, the fact remains that you won't find, collectively, the number of high school football fans in Huntsville, Nacogdoches, Lafayette or Lake Charles that you will in Southeast Texas. None of those areas have anything resembling a PN-G, and yet we've got three high schools I can think of off the top of my head that can fill up Lamar's stadium better than Lamar can. Use what you have to work with.   As for the coaching, I plead the fifth.