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Old 05-16-2013, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by icenine View Post
A famous black conservative came to our college once in the 80s.....
he teaches at George Mason Universtiy or did....he is well known cannot remember his name...

he basically said get rid of the minimum wage
he was against local cities regulating taxis with medallion licensing i.e. one has to bascially pay the NY city government thousands of dollars for the medallion that legitmizes the yellow cab. I thought his advocacy of gypsy cabs was at least interesting and perhaps valid...

but he just really a conservative . He did not believe in affirmative action his belief was that racism exists just get over it and do the best you can. Many of us in the audience hated this.
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