I'm a New York Native. I'm older. I've been a conservative since the age of 12.
Here's what changed me. At the age of 12, I campaigned for Democrat liberal George McGovern.
Then I saw that all the rich white liberal kids in my public school elementary school had been brainwashed by their parents to support forced busing and integration.
But the next year, all of those rich kids were in white private schools after graduation. Me and my middle class friends had to go to the local forcibly integrated junior high school, which had become all black and hispanic. White kids were hunted targets.
Can't put a price on not having your kids live in physical fear for their safety every day at school because schools refuse to control their black and hispanic kids who have been conditions by their parents to be racist as fuck.
That's not what is important. What is important is that the kids of the rich had been bought a little time to live privileged lives insulated from social problems - at the expense of the white lower and middle classes.
It's more like - middle class whites were to be sacrificed so that upper class whites could buy time to be insulated from the violent menace of the ghettos.
Look up the judge who instituted forced busing in South Boston ( which used to be lower-middle-class Irish in the 1970s ). He was a wealthy patrician from a wealthy all-white small town in Massachusetts.
Yep. The white liberals are the same in St. Louis. They all live in >90 percent white neighborhoods and when blacks start moving into their neighborhood they move to successful conservative suburbs and take their stupidity with them.
They started all that forced integration and busing shit just as I was about to start elementary school.
My parents got me and my 11-years-older sister into a private Christian school that same year. Had they not done that, I would have ended up being bussed from a fairly good elementary to one of the worst ones in town. It was a significant sacrifice for them because we were not rich by any means, but to this day I thank them for it.
In later years I got into an argument with my mom about school, and I still remember her words: "If we didn't care about you and your education, we'd buy you a $10 switchblade and send you to XXXXXX (shitty dangerous public high school in the city where I grew up).
I'm a New York Native. I'm older. I've been a conservative since the age of 12.
Here's what changed me. At the age of 12, I campaigned for Democrat liberal George McGovern.
Then I saw that all the rich white liberal kids in my public school elementary school had been brainwashed by their parents to support forced busing and integration.
But the next year, all of those rich kids were in white private schools after graduation. Me and my middle class friends had to go to the local forcibly integrated junior high school, which had become all black and hispanic. White kids were hunted targets.
I saw the hypocrisy first-hand at the age of 12.
You know something is wrong with the public school system when some parents send their kids to a $35,000 kindergarten school
Just elitists doing elitist things. Those with money have always sought to give their kids as many advantages as possible (whether they work or not).
Which is fine, you spend your money the way you want to. But what I don't like is how they force everyone to do one thing while they do another.
Can't put a price on not having your kids live in physical fear for their safety every day at school because schools refuse to control their black and hispanic kids who have been conditions by their parents to be racist as fuck.
Certtainly. No chance I'd raise a child in the NYC public school system.
That's not what is important. What is important is that the kids of the rich had been bought a little time to live privileged lives insulated from social problems - at the expense of the white lower and middle classes.
It's more like - middle class whites were to be sacrificed so that upper class whites could buy time to be insulated from the violent menace of the ghettos.
Look up the judge who instituted forced busing in South Boston ( which used to be lower-middle-class Irish in the 1970s ). He was a wealthy patrician from a wealthy all-white small town in Massachusetts.
Yep. The white liberals are the same in St. Louis. They all live in >90 percent white neighborhoods and when blacks start moving into their neighborhood they move to successful conservative suburbs and take their stupidity with them.
My in-laws are big-mouthed progressives. They love to virtue-signal about black oppression, yet they have never worked with or lived near blacks.
Their entire lives are devoted to avoiding any kind of contact with non-white, non-progressives.
They started all that forced integration and busing shit just as I was about to start elementary school.
My parents got me and my 11-years-older sister into a private Christian school that same year. Had they not done that, I would have ended up being bussed from a fairly good elementary to one of the worst ones in town. It was a significant sacrifice for them because we were not rich by any means, but to this day I thank them for it.
In later years I got into an argument with my mom about school, and I still remember her words: "If we didn't care about you and your education, we'd buy you a $10 switchblade and send you to XXXXXX (shitty dangerous public high school in the city where I grew up).
Fuck busing.
I had some kid pull a gun on me in the "diverse" junior high school I was forced into. Dozens of other similar incidents I witnessed.