White people aren't allowed to be African

[The One and Only...]

Oh. Well, anyway...

I'm not defending this guy because I think he should win the award. I just think that he's making a point. Aren't the various classifications regarding ethnicity getting a little out of date? Shouldn't we just call ourselves what we want?

Personally, I think the best way to bring minorities out of the gutter is to increase funding for education to the poor. I don't believe that their higher poverty rates are the product of rascism - it has more to do with a lack of any decent education and a bad environment.

That may sound out of place for me. But don't worry, I still favor a negative income tax (or vouchers, but I prefer the former) for the poor rather than governmentally run schools. The real question is what we can do with the money we save. Hell, we could put it all back into education if we wanted - I suspect that if we limited government funding of college tuition for the top 10-15% (top of what to be determined; perhaps SAT scores), we would still have money left over. Hell; we might even be able to fund more than that, considering that we spend around $8,000 per pupil compared to roughly $5,000 per pupil in private schools.