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EastStang · Post by **EastStang** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:52 pm

George Bush doesn't care about black people.? He had the first black Secretary of State, the second black Secretary of State, more black general officers in the history of U.S. Military, more black small businesses getting government contracts than ever before, no he doesn't give a hoot about black people.

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:53 pm

"Stay out of the Bushes!!!!!!!!!!"

--Black Man circa 2000

SMUMan02 · Post by **SMUMan02** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:54 pm

jtstang wrote:I think in order to have a meaningful discussion about the library, we have to differentiate between the library whcih would have some SMU control, and the "policy institute" which would not. Speaking as something of a naysayer, I object not to the library, but to the policy institute, as it will be a Dubya cheerleading camp controlled by Dubya people, on the campus of a private university whose mission ought to be unrestrained political discourse.

Since when has this been the mission of SMU?

jtstang · Post by **jtstang** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:55 pm

SMUMan02 wrote:
jtstang wrote:I think in order to have a meaningful discussion about the library, we have to differentiate between the library whcih would have some SMU control, and the "policy institute" which would not. Speaking as something of a naysayer, I object not to the library, but to the policy institute, as it will be a Dubya cheerleading camp controlled by Dubya people, on the campus of a private university whose mission ought to be unrestrained political discourse.

Since when has this been the mission of SMU?

Where did I ever say it was?

SMUMan02 · Post by **SMUMan02** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:56 pm

EastStang wrote:George Bush doesn't care about black people.? He had the first black Secretary of State, the second black Secretary of State, more black general officers in the history of U.S. Military, more black small businesses getting government contracts than ever before, no he doesn't give a hoot about black people.

Calm down EastStang. I don't want to speak for anyone, but I'm pretty sure the quote was in reference to the perception in some circles of the black community See Kanye West.

dcpony · Post by **dcpony** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:57 pm

EastStang wrote:George Bush doesn't care about black people.? He had the first black Secretary of State, the second black Secretary of State, more black general officers in the history of U.S. Military, more black small businesses getting government contracts than ever before, no he doesn't give a hoot about black people.

That's all true.

But Katrina will be his legacy in the African-American community for as long as he lives.

mrydel · Post by **mrydel** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:03 pm

dcpony wrote:
EastStang wrote:George Bush doesn't care about black people.? He had the first black Secretary of State, the second black Secretary of State, more black general officers in the history of U.S. Military, more black small businesses getting government contracts than ever before, no he doesn't give a hoot about black people.

That's all true.

But Katrina will be his legacy in the African-American community for as long as he lives.

Will you state the same for Nagin?

dcpony · Post by **dcpony** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:06 pm

mrydel wrote:
dcpony wrote:
EastStang wrote:George Bush doesn't care about black people.? He had the first black Secretary of State, the second black Secretary of State, more black general officers in the history of U.S. Military, more black small businesses getting government contracts than ever before, no he doesn't give a hoot about black people.

That's all true.

But Katrina will be his legacy in the African-American community for as long as he lives.

Will you state the same for Nagin?

Oh yeah and Blanco deserves blame too. But Dubbya will have this stain on his legacy.

SMU89 · Post by **SMU89** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:34 pm

dcpony wrote:
mrydel wrote:
dcpony wrote:
EastStang wrote:George Bush doesn't care about black people.? He had the first black Secretary of State, the second black Secretary of State, more black general officers in the history of U.S. Military, more black small businesses getting government contracts than ever before, no he doesn't give a hoot about black people.

That's all true.

But Katrina will be his legacy in the African-American community for as long as he lives.

Will you state the same for Nagin?

Oh yeah and Blanco deserves blame too. But Dubbya will have this stain on his legacy.

Now which one of the above three people (Bush, Nagin, Blano) are you guys saying created the hurricane and directed it to a city that someone decided to build below sea level and someone else decided it would be good to live below sea level?

Sorry I brought the Library up.

Regardless of your feelings towards the library, the fact is it will be some $400million facility right on our campus that WILL bring NATIONAL attention to SMU. The last time SMU had national attention was Harriot Myers (for going to such a non-prestigious law school as SMUs and the DP)

LonghornFan68 · Post by **LonghornFan68** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:35 pm

SMU89 wrote:
dcpony wrote:
mrydel wrote:
dcpony wrote:
EastStang wrote:George Bush doesn't care about black people.? He had the first black Secretary of State, the second black Secretary of State, more black general officers in the history of U.S. Military, more black small businesses getting government contracts than ever before, no he doesn't give a hoot about black people.

That's all true.

But Katrina will be his legacy in the African-American community for as long as he lives.

Will you state the same for Nagin?

Oh yeah and Blanco deserves blame too. But Dubbya will have this stain on his legacy.

Now which one of the above three people (Bush, Nagin, Blano) are you guys saying created the hurricane and directed it to a city that someone decided to build below sea level and someone else decided it would be good to live below sea level?

Sorry I brought the Library up.

Regardless of your feelings towards the library, the fact is it will be some $400million facility right on our campus that WILL bring NATIONAL attention to SMU. The last time SMU had national attention was Harriot Myers (for going to such a non-prestigious law school as SMUs and the DP)

what if that national attention is in the form of pointing and laughing?

SMU89 · Post by **SMU89** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:37 pm

To clarify the Myers / law school comment -- I am not knocking our law school or anyone who attended -- my statement was what was expressed by some who were not for Myers.

Samurai Stang · Post by **Samurai Stang** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:40 pm

SMU89 wrote:To clarify the Myers / law school comment -- I am not knocking our law school or anyone who attended -- my statement was what was expressed by some who were not for Myers.

There have been Japanese Supreme Court Justices that attended this school of law.

SMU89 · Post by **SMU89** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:46 pm

LonghornFan68 wrote:
SMU89 wrote:
dcpony wrote:
mrydel wrote:
dcpony wrote:
EastStang wrote:George Bush doesn't care about black people.? He had the first black Secretary of State, the second black Secretary of State, more black general officers in the history of U.S. Military, more black small businesses getting government contracts than ever before, no he doesn't give a hoot about black people.

That's all true.

But Katrina will be his legacy in the African-American community for as long as he lives.

Will you state the same for Nagin?

Oh yeah and Blanco deserves blame too. But Dubbya will have this stain on his legacy.

Now which one of the above three people (Bush, Nagin, Blano) are you guys saying created the hurricane and directed it to a city that someone decided to build below sea level and someone else decided it would be good to live below sea level?

Sorry I brought the Library up.

Regardless of your feelings towards the library, the fact is it will be some $400million facility right on our campus that WILL bring NATIONAL attention to SMU. The last time SMU had national attention was Harriot Myers (for going to such a non-prestigious law school as SMUs and the DP)

what if that national attention is in the form of pointing and laughing?

We have the last laugh as there are a lot of schools who spent time and money trying to get the library and it is going to be on our campus.

jtstang · Post by **jtstang** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:52 pm

SMU89 wrote:We have the last laugh as there are a lot of schools who spent time and money trying to get the library and it is going to be on our campus.

Yes, we beat out Baylor and University of Dallas!! They can kiss our @ss!

SMU89 · Post by **SMU89** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:15 pm

jtstang wrote:
SMU89 wrote:We have the last laugh as there are a lot of schools who spent time and money trying to get the library and it is going to be on our campus.

Yes, we beat out Baylor and University of Dallas!! They can kiss our @ss!

Along with A&M and Texas Tech