Quote:Wrong again roller, and on both counts.


First, insight is wonderful. 1.) there are tons of life experiences and other resources that can help someone develop insight that don't cost 25k a year, and 2.) if that Insight doesn't lead someone to make a competent cost risk analysis about the value of their education then what's the point? The stats show that in the arena of paying back student loans right now even our college graduates are struggling in that area and when it comes to actually being able to save money for retirement the entire system needs to be overhauled.


In reality, the system that we are currently dumping billions of dollars into on an annual basis is based on a Victorian era view of education where brick and mortar institutions where the sole arbiters of distributing knowledge. The idea that we would continue to over invest capital in a system that isn't carrying its weight through return on investment while increasing tuition by double digits every year is asinine.


As to the concept of Black aspiration being looked down upon in black precincts you are entitled to your opinion, but not your own facts. You can choose to ignore the 08 primary but that doesn't negate the fact that When Obama began making a push for the Democratic nomination that the charge was leveled that he wasn't BLACK ENOUGH.


For all his faults on policy Barrack Obama was able to overcome this and dominated in the Black community to secure the nomination but that doesn't negate the fact that a.) the charge was made, and made by people pretty high up, and that b.) initially he found himself upside down in the black community that initially viewed the Clinton Machine as more "Down with the Struggle."

I think that all politics involves charges that individuals are not "enough ________" in some capacity or another.


For example. Whites see Barack Obama as black, period, not mixed. This was more a question of skin color as opposed to where he stood on positions. In the same vein, there have been many charges over the past years that Republicans, such as John McCain were "RINOs" Republicans in name only. If you asked a Democrat, McCain was Republican, based on his party affiliation as opposed to being viewed on where he stood on issues important to Republicans. And again, McCain pushed through and received the overwhelming number of Republican votes even though these charges were made and many people voted for others in the primary.

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