LET'S FACE IT

* Racism ain't going away. After Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, after the equal rights movement and affirmative action, after decades of talk about eradicating racism in our country, it is clear that racism is as rampant as it was before, if not more so. Overall, the races do not like each other, do not know each other, do not trust each other. Yes, we have seen an increase in interracial marriages, but I am not certain that even some of them,to some extent, are not racially motivated. The Zimmerman case made all of this clear. People who did not sit in on the trial, who did not hear the testimony, who did not know Zimmerman or Martin, claim to "know" what really happened. How do they know it? Racism tells them.

* High schools are a total waste of time and money. They in no way prepare students for their future lives, for their future careers, for their future relationships. They teach students meaningless mathematical formulas that virtually no student will ever need to know after he or she leaves school. They require students to wade through the same boring and tired literature that have little, if any, relevance to life in the`21st century. They require students to learn a foreign language for some mysterious reason I do not know. Most students will forget 95% of the language they learn within months after graduating. And as far as communicating with foreigners, 95% of the world's emerging generations already speak the same language: English.

And even worse are the valuable subjects missing from the high school agendas: logical thinking, parenting, choosing a career, morality, choosing a mate, investing, automobile maintenance, etc.

* All the blogs in the world, this one included, do not change one person's mind about anything. Nor do radio or tv talk shows.Why not? Because people make up their minds early on and are not disposed to rethink their opinion, nor to make the effort and take the time that objective thinking and judging require. And that is true for both blog writers and readers, for talkers and listeners.   Fixed opinions, locked and loaded.