tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12840599.post6729191076810852206..comments2023-10-28T03:54:08.569-04:00Comments on BlogAsheville: Constitutional Property to Constitutional PeopleGordon Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07507309922707382050noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12840599.post-61946808760470071122008-03-08T15:24:00.000-05:002008-03-08T15:24:00.000-05:00Timpeck, I very strongly suspect that you have no ...Timpeck, I very strongly suspect that you have no idea whom you are commenting about. <BR/><BR/>Once you figure out "who," then perhaps we can talk about "what." <BR/><BR/>Dr. Moses' point is that we have a sharecropper education system controlled by the states, which in turn devolve some of their authority to local control. <BR/><BR/>That educational system inherently preferences some groups over others, just as economic, cultural,and racial aspects of historical sharecropping did.<BR/><BR/>The rich get better resources and better outcomes. Better access to political and economic agency.<BR/><BR/>The poor don't, and because as students they have no valid constitutional right to redress, they are powerless to affect change.<BR/><BR/>Very similar overall situation to the right to vote for all citizens was federalized by the 14th & 15th amendments, then by a series of civil rights and voting rights acts.<BR/><BR/>The solution, Moses argues, is to establish the right to education constitutionally, thereby granting students federal legal standing to pursue redress and parity. And therefore access to economic, political, and cultural agency.<BR/><BR/>States rights advocates will scream about this, just as they did when the "state's rights" of slavery and ballot access were federalized and all those black people suddenly had the temerity to stand up and do all those radical, evil things. <BR/><BR/>Like vote.<BR/><BR/>James A.jatkin02https://www.blogger.com/profile/06977420404139382680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12840599.post-62826348146648926622008-03-01T11:16:00.000-05:002008-03-01T11:16:00.000-05:00sorry tim,but im gonna have to trust dr. moses, a ...sorry tim,<BR/><BR/>but im gonna have to trust dr. moses, a man who has dedicated his life to the betterment of this nation and its citizens, someone who has bled in the struggle for civil and human rights, someone who on a daily basis plants himself on the frontline in the war on poverty, rather than your bitter denial of the value of public education.<BR/><BR/>what have you done for us lately?Adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04095389795975787398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12840599.post-49109301907334905082008-03-01T11:07:00.000-05:002008-03-01T11:07:00.000-05:00sighsighAdminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04095389795975787398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12840599.post-61062448670848035802008-03-01T07:25:00.000-05:002008-03-01T07:25:00.000-05:00So a black man wants to put legal slavery back int...So a black man wants to put legal slavery back into the Constitution. <BR/><BR/>Brilliant. <BR/><BR/>How far we've come.timpeckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00919440517534194776noreply@blogger.com