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“There’s not much Indian left in Bobby Jindal.”
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i respect your experience, breh, so i'm not gonna shyt on you, but allow me to provide a different perspective. as a black man, my ancestors didn't immigrant here and bring a culture with them. black americans over time built their own culture in this country. the way we walk, they way we talk, our music as well as other forms of entertainment, the food we eat, our sense of fashion, etc. these are all things that are unique to black people in america and nowhere else (except maybe canada). but in order for black people to be accepted by society at large, we're expected to assimilate to the greater american culture, a.k.a. white culture. i ain't with that shyt.
the fact that you talk about segregation as a bad thing the way you do lets me know you don't understand why this country has segregated neighborhoods. every immigrant and minority population that has ever made their way to this country has been marginalized to some degree, whether it was african-americans, mexicans, or even italians, and the irish. those ethnic neighborhoods you speak of were not created by the immigrants themselves so that they could be a world apart from society, that's where the powers that be forced them to settle. the fact of the matter is that america created a society based around segregation, basically ensuring that many immigrants as well as their successive generations will stay within these unspoken boundaries and rarely if ever enter into mainstream american culture.
superunknown23
Superstar
c00ns get their wakeup call when they get out of line...
This is what republicans don't understand about why black conseratives are shunned and why "hardworking immigrants who are naturally conservative" usually always vote for democrats. If you have to be hide your culture to be accepted, then people will not vote for you...
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Louisiana Has A Lot Of Problems. This Is How Bobby Jindal Made Them Worse.
BY ALICE OLLSTEIN POSTED ON JUNE 24, 2015 AT 8:00 AM
CREDIT: AP
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has spent much of his final year in office outside of Louisiana, with frequent trips to Washington, D.C. and the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina — trips funded by the disgruntled taxpayers of his state. On Wednesday, he confirms the ill-kept secret that he is joining the growing pack seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2016.
As Jindal makes headlines for his controversial remarks about Islam and racial inequality, his record running Louisiana has gotten less attention from voters around the country.
Since Gov. Jindal took office in 2008, Louisiana has earned some dubious honors. The state hasthe largest gender pay gap in the country, with women making 66 cents for every dollar a man earns.
A study by the Violence Policy Center published in late January found the state also has the second-highest rate of gun deaths in the nation, and the state’s rate of incarceration currently leads the U.S. — and thus, the world. Nearly two-thirds of Louisiana’s prisoners are doing time for a drug crime or other non-violent offense. Last year, Jindal vetoed a bipartisan measure that would have made more inmates eligible for parole and redirected the money saved from their early release to fund rehabilitation programs. Jindal called the bill “a step too far that could put our citizens at risk.”
As Jindal’s administration slashed millions from the budget for STD prevention, and preventednew Planned Parenthood clinics from opening, Louisiana developed the second-highest rate ofgonorrhea in the country, the third-highest rate of syphilis, and the fourth-highest rate of chlamydia. New Orleans also has the second-highest number of estimated HIV cases in the country, and the highest rate of death after HIV infection. The state has the fifth-highest rate of teen pregnancy.
Despite these alarming numbers, Jindal signed a bill in 2014 that bars anyone affiliated withPlanned Parenthood from teaching students about sexual health or family planning.
Additionally, though 16.6 percent of Louisiana residents lack health insurance, one of the highest rates of uninsured people in the country, Jindal refused the federally funded expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, and declined to set up a state-based health exchange. If the Supreme Court rules over the next few weeks against Obamacare’s federal subsidies, as many as 250,000 Louisianans could lose their coverage.
Over Jindal’s time in the governor’s mansion, the state’s higher education system has also taken a major hit, with more money cut per student than almost any other state in the country. In the 2015 budget, facing a $1.6 billion dollar shortfall, Jindal proposed even deeper cuts to Louisiana State University that threatened to eliminate entire programs and campuses. Using some bizarre accounting gimmicks involving fees and tax credits that canceled each other out, the Jindal was able to temporarily avoid the devastating education cuts, but whoever takes over the governor’s mansion in January will have to sort out the long-term deficit.
At the same time, the governor has given more than a billion dollars each year in tax breaks to wealthy corporations in the film, retail, and fracking industries.
With school budget woes ongoing, professors at LSU blasted Jindal for hosting a religious rally at the school’s flagship campus. The rally, called “The Response,” was bankrolled by the American Family Association, a designated hate group that has said, among other things, that the spread of marriage equality and abortion rights is responsible for natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
Though Jindal is Catholic, the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops did not participate in his day of prayer.
As the long primary season kicks off, Governor Jindal’s record could become a problem for the Republican Party’s stated goals developed after losing the 2012 election — namely, winning over more voters of color, LGBT people, and women.
Though the election is still more than a year away, a survey of Republican voters found more voters would prefer Jindal not run (20 percent) than favor his candidacy (14 percent).
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/06/24/3615327/bobby-jindal-running-president-ran-louisiana/
BY ALICE OLLSTEIN POSTED ON JUNE 24, 2015 AT 8:00 AM
CREDIT: AP
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has spent much of his final year in office outside of Louisiana, with frequent trips to Washington, D.C. and the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina — trips funded by the disgruntled taxpayers of his state. On Wednesday, he confirms the ill-kept secret that he is joining the growing pack seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2016.
As Jindal makes headlines for his controversial remarks about Islam and racial inequality, his record running Louisiana has gotten less attention from voters around the country.
Since Gov. Jindal took office in 2008, Louisiana has earned some dubious honors. The state hasthe largest gender pay gap in the country, with women making 66 cents for every dollar a man earns.
A study by the Violence Policy Center published in late January found the state also has the second-highest rate of gun deaths in the nation, and the state’s rate of incarceration currently leads the U.S. — and thus, the world. Nearly two-thirds of Louisiana’s prisoners are doing time for a drug crime or other non-violent offense. Last year, Jindal vetoed a bipartisan measure that would have made more inmates eligible for parole and redirected the money saved from their early release to fund rehabilitation programs. Jindal called the bill “a step too far that could put our citizens at risk.”
As Jindal’s administration slashed millions from the budget for STD prevention, and preventednew Planned Parenthood clinics from opening, Louisiana developed the second-highest rate ofgonorrhea in the country, the third-highest rate of syphilis, and the fourth-highest rate of chlamydia. New Orleans also has the second-highest number of estimated HIV cases in the country, and the highest rate of death after HIV infection. The state has the fifth-highest rate of teen pregnancy.
Despite these alarming numbers, Jindal signed a bill in 2014 that bars anyone affiliated withPlanned Parenthood from teaching students about sexual health or family planning.
Additionally, though 16.6 percent of Louisiana residents lack health insurance, one of the highest rates of uninsured people in the country, Jindal refused the federally funded expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, and declined to set up a state-based health exchange. If the Supreme Court rules over the next few weeks against Obamacare’s federal subsidies, as many as 250,000 Louisianans could lose their coverage.
Over Jindal’s time in the governor’s mansion, the state’s higher education system has also taken a major hit, with more money cut per student than almost any other state in the country. In the 2015 budget, facing a $1.6 billion dollar shortfall, Jindal proposed even deeper cuts to Louisiana State University that threatened to eliminate entire programs and campuses. Using some bizarre accounting gimmicks involving fees and tax credits that canceled each other out, the Jindal was able to temporarily avoid the devastating education cuts, but whoever takes over the governor’s mansion in January will have to sort out the long-term deficit.
At the same time, the governor has given more than a billion dollars each year in tax breaks to wealthy corporations in the film, retail, and fracking industries.
With school budget woes ongoing, professors at LSU blasted Jindal for hosting a religious rally at the school’s flagship campus. The rally, called “The Response,” was bankrolled by the American Family Association, a designated hate group that has said, among other things, that the spread of marriage equality and abortion rights is responsible for natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
Though Jindal is Catholic, the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops did not participate in his day of prayer.
As the long primary season kicks off, Governor Jindal’s record could become a problem for the Republican Party’s stated goals developed after losing the 2012 election — namely, winning over more voters of color, LGBT people, and women.
Though the election is still more than a year away, a survey of Republican voters found more voters would prefer Jindal not run (20 percent) than favor his candidacy (14 percent).
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/06/24/3615327/bobby-jindal-running-president-ran-louisiana/
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Bobby Jindal’s Biggest Troll Is His Friend’s 21-Year-Old Son
Kids these days.
—By Tim Murphy
| Wed Jun. 24, 2015 6:00 AM EDT
Marc Nozell/Flickr
Related: Can Bobby Jindal drive out the GOP's demons?
Science was never supposed to be an issue for Bobby Jindal. The Louisiana governor rose through the ranks of the Republican party on the strength of his reputation as a Rhodes Scholar whiz kid, a former Brown pre-med with an eye for the intricacies of health policy. But since taking office, he's been dogged by accusations that he's playing politics with science education. In 2008, Jindal supported a law that makes it easier for biology teachers to "teach the controversy" on the theory of evolution. His stance on the issue has earned him unfavorable attention outside the state. In 2012, when he was briefly floated as a potential vice presidential candidate, Slate dubbed it "Bobby Jindal's science problem."
The image of Jindal as an anti-science hypocrite is largely the product of one man—Zack Kopplin, a 21-year-old history major at Rice University. Kopplin has spent much of the last five years campaigning against Jindal's approach to the teaching of evolution, which Kopplin considers a back-door invitation to teach creationism. He's testified before the state legislature and has made appearances on Hardball, NPR, and Real Time With Bill Maher (alongside Bernie Sanders). Here he is with Bill Moyers:
Kopplin is Bobby Jindal's biggest troll. He's also the son of a Jindal family friend.
The relationship dates back to the mid-90s. Kopplin's father, Andy Kopplin, is currently the deputy mayor of New Orleans, serving under Democrat Mitch Landrieu. But it was in an earlier job, as chief of staff to former Louisiana Republican Gov. Murphy Foster, that the elder Kopplin became friends with Jindal. In 1996, Foster hired a 24-year-old Jindal to run the state's Department of Health and Hospitals—Jindal's first full-time job in government. "He had two protegés—Gov. Jindal and my father," the younger Kopplin says. "At the time they got along pretty well. My mom now swears that she never really liked Jindal, but they went out to dinner pretty regularly." When Jindal first ran for governor in 2003 (a race he lost in a runoff to Democrat Kathleen Blanco), Kopplin remembers trying to persuade his classmates to support the Republican candidate, although none of them were old enough to vote.
The turning point for Kopplin came in 2008, when the state legislature passed the Louisiana Science Education Act, which purported to "help students understand, analyze, critique and review scientific theories." But the subtext seemed clear. The bill, which Jindal signed into law, opened a potential backdoor to the teaching of intelligent design by allowing teachers to introduce supplementary materials that hadn't been approved by the state department of education. The law was writtenby a social conservative organization called the Louisiana Family Forum, in consultation with the Discovery Institute, a pro-intelligent-design think tank. The Democratic state senator who introduced the bill explained at the time that its supporters believed that "scientific data related to creationism should be discussed when dealing with Darwin's theory." Kopplin decided to devote his senior year of high school in Baton Rouge to fighting the new law. He started a petition and got 75 Nobel laureates to sign it. Even Jindal's college genetics teacher was on board.
Kopplin got 75 Nobel laureates to sign a petition opposing Louisiana's science education law. Even Jindal's college genetics teacher was on board.
Jindal, who studied biology at Brown and was considering Harvard Medical School before attending Oxford, has left a bit of a paper trail as to where he really stands. In 1995, while still a student in England, he published an essay in a small Catholic journal, This Rock, attacking atheism. He asserted that there was "much controversy over the fossil evidence for evolution," and he put himself squarely in the camp of intelligent design. "No evolutionary biologist has produced or ever will produce a conclusion with any relevance to the necessity of God," he argued. "At best he can push the location of the supernatural assumption from the origin of life to the origin of matter, energy, and order."
But Kopplin, who attended the same magnet school in Baton Rouge as Jindal's two kids currently do, suspects the governor's support for the law is purely political. "I mean, who knows? I could be totally wrong and maybe Jindal believes this with his whole heart," Kopplin says. "Which is more why I go back to what his kids are learning. I had their seventh-grade biology teacher at [University Laboratory School] where I went for middle school, and I know she doesn't just teachevolution—she's absolutely obsessive about it. If Jindal actually was a creationist, I think he'd have a much bigger problem with his kids being taught what evolution is."
Case in point: Last September, Jindal told reporters that he wanted his kids to study evolution in school, but he added that he was "not an evolutionary biologist" and emphasized that he thought the decision on what to teach should be up to individual school districts.
Since the initial campaign against the Louisiana Science Education Act, Kopplin has continued to beat the drum on what he views as the erosion of public schools. He's broadened his focus to include the governor's voucher program, which diverts state money to religious schools that question evolution and openly discriminateagainst students who violate their moral code. (At one such institution, students can be expelled if a family member promotes the "homosexual lifestyle.") And Kopplin has expanded his push to Texas, where he discovered that students at the state's biggest charter school network were being taught that the "sketchy" fossil record undermines the theory of evolution.
Although he still has three credit hours left at Rice, he's continued to keep the pressure on Jindal. He's published six pieces at Slate in just the last seven months, four of which focused on the former family friend. And he expects to continue churning out stories as the race for the Republican presidential nomination heats up. Jindal "does bring out my best writing," Kopplin says, "because I sort of know the environment he's around pretty well—I know his kids' biology teachers!"
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/bobby-jindal-zack-kopplin-evolution
Kids these days.
—By Tim Murphy
| Wed Jun. 24, 2015 6:00 AM EDT
Related: Can Bobby Jindal drive out the GOP's demons?
Science was never supposed to be an issue for Bobby Jindal. The Louisiana governor rose through the ranks of the Republican party on the strength of his reputation as a Rhodes Scholar whiz kid, a former Brown pre-med with an eye for the intricacies of health policy. But since taking office, he's been dogged by accusations that he's playing politics with science education. In 2008, Jindal supported a law that makes it easier for biology teachers to "teach the controversy" on the theory of evolution. His stance on the issue has earned him unfavorable attention outside the state. In 2012, when he was briefly floated as a potential vice presidential candidate, Slate dubbed it "Bobby Jindal's science problem."
The image of Jindal as an anti-science hypocrite is largely the product of one man—Zack Kopplin, a 21-year-old history major at Rice University. Kopplin has spent much of the last five years campaigning against Jindal's approach to the teaching of evolution, which Kopplin considers a back-door invitation to teach creationism. He's testified before the state legislature and has made appearances on Hardball, NPR, and Real Time With Bill Maher (alongside Bernie Sanders). Here he is with Bill Moyers:
Kopplin is Bobby Jindal's biggest troll. He's also the son of a Jindal family friend.
The relationship dates back to the mid-90s. Kopplin's father, Andy Kopplin, is currently the deputy mayor of New Orleans, serving under Democrat Mitch Landrieu. But it was in an earlier job, as chief of staff to former Louisiana Republican Gov. Murphy Foster, that the elder Kopplin became friends with Jindal. In 1996, Foster hired a 24-year-old Jindal to run the state's Department of Health and Hospitals—Jindal's first full-time job in government. "He had two protegés—Gov. Jindal and my father," the younger Kopplin says. "At the time they got along pretty well. My mom now swears that she never really liked Jindal, but they went out to dinner pretty regularly." When Jindal first ran for governor in 2003 (a race he lost in a runoff to Democrat Kathleen Blanco), Kopplin remembers trying to persuade his classmates to support the Republican candidate, although none of them were old enough to vote.
The turning point for Kopplin came in 2008, when the state legislature passed the Louisiana Science Education Act, which purported to "help students understand, analyze, critique and review scientific theories." But the subtext seemed clear. The bill, which Jindal signed into law, opened a potential backdoor to the teaching of intelligent design by allowing teachers to introduce supplementary materials that hadn't been approved by the state department of education. The law was writtenby a social conservative organization called the Louisiana Family Forum, in consultation with the Discovery Institute, a pro-intelligent-design think tank. The Democratic state senator who introduced the bill explained at the time that its supporters believed that "scientific data related to creationism should be discussed when dealing with Darwin's theory." Kopplin decided to devote his senior year of high school in Baton Rouge to fighting the new law. He started a petition and got 75 Nobel laureates to sign it. Even Jindal's college genetics teacher was on board.
Kopplin got 75 Nobel laureates to sign a petition opposing Louisiana's science education law. Even Jindal's college genetics teacher was on board.
Jindal, who studied biology at Brown and was considering Harvard Medical School before attending Oxford, has left a bit of a paper trail as to where he really stands. In 1995, while still a student in England, he published an essay in a small Catholic journal, This Rock, attacking atheism. He asserted that there was "much controversy over the fossil evidence for evolution," and he put himself squarely in the camp of intelligent design. "No evolutionary biologist has produced or ever will produce a conclusion with any relevance to the necessity of God," he argued. "At best he can push the location of the supernatural assumption from the origin of life to the origin of matter, energy, and order."
But Kopplin, who attended the same magnet school in Baton Rouge as Jindal's two kids currently do, suspects the governor's support for the law is purely political. "I mean, who knows? I could be totally wrong and maybe Jindal believes this with his whole heart," Kopplin says. "Which is more why I go back to what his kids are learning. I had their seventh-grade biology teacher at [University Laboratory School] where I went for middle school, and I know she doesn't just teachevolution—she's absolutely obsessive about it. If Jindal actually was a creationist, I think he'd have a much bigger problem with his kids being taught what evolution is."
Case in point: Last September, Jindal told reporters that he wanted his kids to study evolution in school, but he added that he was "not an evolutionary biologist" and emphasized that he thought the decision on what to teach should be up to individual school districts.
Since the initial campaign against the Louisiana Science Education Act, Kopplin has continued to beat the drum on what he views as the erosion of public schools. He's broadened his focus to include the governor's voucher program, which diverts state money to religious schools that question evolution and openly discriminateagainst students who violate their moral code. (At one such institution, students can be expelled if a family member promotes the "homosexual lifestyle.") And Kopplin has expanded his push to Texas, where he discovered that students at the state's biggest charter school network were being taught that the "sketchy" fossil record undermines the theory of evolution.
Although he still has three credit hours left at Rice, he's continued to keep the pressure on Jindal. He's published six pieces at Slate in just the last seven months, four of which focused on the former family friend. And he expects to continue churning out stories as the race for the Republican presidential nomination heats up. Jindal "does bring out my best writing," Kopplin says, "because I sort of know the environment he's around pretty well—I know his kids' biology teachers!"
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/bobby-jindal-zack-kopplin-evolution
An Indian c00n....
superunknown23
Superstar
He's a special case.An Indian c00n....
85 percent of Indian-Americans voted for Obama in 2012
superunknown23
Superstar
this is redundant
Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
i hate fakkit bobby jindal, foh
These immigrants gonna get their wake up call.
Camile.Bidan
Banned
most people would rather be around those that are ethnically, culturally or even racially similar. I think is a natural part of being human.
As such, I think that erasing at least the ethnic and cultural differences can greatly enhance the harmony of our society.
You use yourself as a Blackman and the historical reasons as to why you don't want to assimilate.
I grew up in a very ghetto lower income area that was diverse ( Poor Asians, poor white, poor Mexicans and even some blacks). I had close friends of all races in my old neighborhoods except for one race--black.
I only had one black friend my entire life. He was largely seen as a "c00n" or weird by other blacks. he definitely didn't speak in a "Black way". When we spoke of him during his absence, we would say," yeah he's black but he is cool", or "I don't really consider him to black, you know he's not like that at all".
This is because blacks largely didn't want have anything to do with non-blacks and stuck to themselves. A divide was created between "them" and "us", and manifested itself in violence hatred.
there such a divide between blacks (their style, mannerisms, dialect) and others. That it is hard for other people to relate. But it is also the other way around.
I attended a black professional event, and I was shocked that the common complaint for blacks,
Especially Native African Americans was that they couldn't related to anyone in the offices or worksites. I really have never had problem like that. I think it's because black American culture is so isolated. Sure, elements like music may seep into the mainstream, but the entirety of black culture is alien to most people. If this cultural divide was erased, I think it would be easier for blacks and non-blacks to get along.