by Arthur Schaper | Oct 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
The worst of straw men, the non-issue shuts many people down because they feel compelled right away to explain that they are not racist. How does one prove a negative? If I married a black woman, had black kids, attended a black church, some black people would still...
by Arthur Schaper | Oct 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
With one student in particular, it was a nightmare. Every day in one class, I would have to send this student out. He would play with his textbook, distract other students, make insensitive comments toward me, or he would find other ruthless ways and means to be...
by Arthur Schaper | Oct 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
At one of the local high schools, a student would not stop talking with another groups of students. When I asked him to move his seat three times, he refused, calling me a “N—–er”. I fired back, ” I am not a slave! Don’t call me...
by Arthur Schaper | Oct 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
My first day at Central Juvenile Hall, near Downtown Los Angeles, one of the students shouted at me:”Are you scared, sir?”Of course I was, but you never let a student in on that, especially criminals on trial trying to fight their fitness hearing. I got...
by Arthur Schaper | Oct 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Obama and Reagan are great communicators. They both knew how to light up a crowd with soaring rhetoric. They both knew how to appeal to the innate vanity of the crowd:Ronald Reagan called the American people “heroes.”Obama declared, “We are the...
by Arthur Schaper | Sep 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Older people are not going to be able to retire when they want to; and every state who has made this argument refuses to demand that seniors extend their working life beyond a meager few years, an inadequateWork longer, old People! Here are the reasons why:1. You wil...
