Anti-White Discimination under investigation at Texas College

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March, 13, 2013

Today, Rachel McGregor with the Dallas Office of Civil Rights acknowledged her office is investigating a Title VI racial discrimination complaint filed by Richard Railey, a white student at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth. Texas.

Mr. Railey’s 27 page complaint alleges that his school, under the direction of the Chancellor Erma Hadley, and with the approval of the College’s Board President William Greenhill,

“colluded, conspired, and schemed to purposefully, willfully, and with malice to have separately and jointly exercised conduct directed against my person based on race for the purposes of debasement, intimidation, bullying, and harassment, at a level of severity that has affected my ability to participate and/or benefit from my educational program at Tarrant County College”.

Mr. Railey’s complaint was filed in response to a school program started last year by the college entitled “Men of Color”, in which Black and Hispanic males are offered specialized tutoring, mentoring, and financial aid services, to the exclusion of white men and women.  No mention is made in the widely distributed program flyer of welcoming or encouraging  the many other classes of the student body.

In an article published on Oct,. 24^th, 2012 in the schools paper, The Collegian, TCC administrators claim that it is necessary to institute discriminatory programs in order to correct social inequalities and disadvantages. According to the article, TCC administrators seem to think that only in this way; by paying – giving special benefits to non-white male students–can they have an equal chance and inequalities be rectified.

According to a Nov. 28^th, follow-up editorial published by The Collegian, “Race-based policies, like TCC’s new minority mentorship program, are still necessary because, according to TCC administrators, half of African-American and Hispanic students drop out after their first semester.”

However, in the article from the school paper, neither Ms. Black, Vice Chancellor of student success and administrator of the exclusionary program, nor any other administrator at Tarrant County College, commented on the dismal graduation statics for their white students.

According to the non-profit organization Complete College America, white students seeking an Associates degree in the state of Texas are struggling mightily. Only 3.6% of white students graduate on time in 2 years, compared to 2.4% of blacks and Hispanics. And only 11.7% of whites graduate after 4 years, compared to 11.3% of Hispanics and 8.1% of blacks.

Does a 0.4% difference in 4-year graduation rates between whites and Hispanics really justify racially discriminatory programs and the exclusion of an entire segment of the student body from participating in the resources of their college? Shouldn’t students have equal access to extra financial and academic aid programs, regardless of race or gender?

Mr. Railey claims he is struggling mightily in his classes and has repeatedly, in writing and in-person requested tutoring assistance and was either ignored or advised he would have to seek help elsewhere, outside of the “Men of Color” program.

Mr. Railey states, “I registered and attended the Feb 8^th “Mentoring  Summit” held at our SE campus hoping to find a tutor and maybe participate in the supportive tuition grants that were to be distributed to attending  students.  I spoke to the event coordinator  Terry Aaron (African-American), advised her I was a student in need, and asked if I could participate.  She suggested I speak to the local coordinator who was in attendance, Freddie Sandifer”.

“So I did”, states Mr. Railey. “ I introduced myself as a student, advised I was seeking assistance, and Mr. Sandifer (an African-American)  stated he was willing to help any student in need but directed I seek assistance elsewhere?  Later, when I tried to address the panel, Mr. Sandifer disparaged me and tried to prevent me from participating in the discussion.  I taped the whole event and was so distraught I produced a video short of the episode.

The next day I wrote Ms. Aaron and Mr. Sandifer and again re-iterated my need and interest in participating in their tutoring program.  I never received a response from either.  Finally, I contacted the program’s senior coordinator Christopher Douglas, and asked if I could meet with him to discuss the program and my participation”.

Mr. Railey continues, “So on March 1^st 2013 I met with Mr. Douglas, the Campus President Tahita Fulkerson, and David Wells the Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs.  I informed them I was struggling in my classes, and have tried repeatedly to seek out assistance and tutoring, and was most interested in participating in their “Men of Color” program.  I was reassured the school does not discriminate based on race, and that all their programs are open to all students, however, they advised me they would find “someone else” (outside of the “men of color” program) to assist me, as the focus of this program (stated Mr. Douglas) was for African-American Men and Hispanics.  Since the meeting, I’ve never heard back from any of them with regards to tutoring or mentoring assistance.”

Mr. Railey also names in his complaint Joy Gates Black, Vice-Chancellor of Student Success and senior administrator of the program, and Christopher Douglas director of student success and senior coordinator as additional parties that he alleges have excluded him from participation based on the color of his skin (white).

Mr. Railey concludes, “Although I applaud the schools efforts in forming a specialized tutoring and mentoring program to seek our students success, shouldn’t we be seeking out the success of all of our students on an equal basis?

Richard Railey is a student at Tarrant County College

Tarrant County College – “We have a right to discriminate”

Fort Worth, Texas – Tarrant County College, a five-campus, 2-year community college system, this week affirmed its unabridged “right” to discriminate against women and white students using funding from a Title III Federal Grant.

A new program, entitled “Men of Color Mentoring” has been launched by college vice president Joy Gates Black. The program uses federal funds to solely benefit the college’s black and Hispanic male student population, expressly to the exclusion of the white students and women.

The new program provides non-white males with “personal mentors, specialized tutoring, specific and specialized degree plans, extra curriculum, [and] financial aid,” according to the college’s news publication, The Collegian.

TCC administrators claim that it is necessary to institute discriminatory programs in order to correct social inequalities and disadvantages. Administrators seem to think that only in this way–by paying / giving special benefits to black male students–can they have an equal chance and inequalities be rectified.

According to an editorial published by The Collegian, “Race-based policies, like TCC’s new minority mentorship program, are still necessary because, according to TCC administrators, half of African-American and Hispanic students drop out after their first semester.”

However, neither Ms. Black nor any other administrators at Tarrant County College commented on the dismal graduation statics for their white students. According to the non-profit organization Complete College America, white students seeking an Associates degree in the state of Texas are struggling mightily. Only 3.6% of white students graduate on time in 2 years, compared to 2.4% of blacks and Hispanics. And only 11.7% of whites graduate after 4 years, compared to 11.3% of Hispanics and 8.1% of blacks.

Does a 0.4% difference in 4-year graduation rates between whites and Hispanics really justify racism and discrimination? Shouldn’t students have equal access to extra financial and academic aid programs, regardless of race or gender?

The local college paper, The Collegian, quipped, “It would be annoying if the college broadened the mentorship program to demographics [white students] that are not struggling.” But if you consider the statistics, which show comparable struggles among white and non-whites, it is hard to understand the antipathy behind that statement.

Apparently, the failure of 96% of white community college students to graduate on time in the state of Texas is not of much concern to college administrators.

The choice to discriminate at Tarrant County College isn’t about helping people who need it. Instead, it’s just the latest method college administrators have devised in order to practice anti-white discrimination under the guise of equality and social justice.

In response, some students at TCC are fighting back and have formed a White Student Union to combat institutional racism and discrimination on campus.

Texas – Texas Responsibility

Everyone on this planet deserve an opportunity to an education, however, it is not the responsibility of the citizens of Texas to provide it for them all.  The ideals of our constitution for the natural rights of man, emphasized by  Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence as INALIENABLE, give rise to hope that those of other nations will seek their rightful place among men regardless of their home country’s culture or government structure. It is not for America or Texas to PROVIDE these rights to others but rather to inspire, assist, and support their efforts to seek them out in ones’ own home country.

Texas must take responsibility for Texas, that is the primary purpose of government, to protect and secure its’ citizens and borders.  We must eliminate the magnets within Texas that draws those here illegally from other nations by resetting the available choices illegal immigrants make when they cross our border for better opportunities.

Texas must INSPIRE from afar as a model for the rule of law, an abundance of opportunity, and a life secure from those of evil intent.  We accomplish this by being the best example of the aforementioned ideals, not by pandering and appeasement for those that break our laws and demand entitlement to those things they have not earned.

“Appeasement is not tactfulness or generosity, nor consideration for the feelings of others; it is consideration for, and compliance with, the unjust, irrational, and unlawful actions of others.” - Ayn Rand

Stealing into Texas should be the worst choice the illegal Mexican immigrant would want to make.  We should have nothing for the illegal here except our hope and support for their right to demand their place as sanctioned beings within the borders of their own nation.  No drivers license, no schools, no food stamps, no housing, no jobs, and no pats on the back or shakes of the hand for breaking our laws.  We cannot even issue you a Kroger shopper’s card.

If you’re here illegally, Texas will take the responsibility to return you to Mexico, we have buses running daily to Laredo.  Advise your friends and neighbors, Texas is a paradise on earth, the rule of law prevails and men of goodwill and fair minds exchange goods and services with each other successfully and profitably.   Life is good here and we want you to be like Texas.

Gather ye fellows within, enjoin communities, stand-up, be proud of your nation and effect reform that will provide you and yours with jobs and a quality education for  your children in your own country.  It is your INALIENABLE right to do so and Texas will stand with you.

Tarrant College Trustee’s Redistrict based on Race

Click to access Star-Telegram article

So how would you expect the Tarrant County College and their Board of Trustee’s to react when concerns are raised by some of their students that they may be discriminating against them based on race, disenfranchising one group to advance some idealistic utopian objective of another? (see “Equality of Ends”)

REDISTRICT of course!  Petulance, arrogance, heels dug in, the “White Guilt” of the Tarrant County Board of Trustee’s decided they must re-group all their minorities (citizens who are not white) together into “tribes” so they can be properly represented?  Diversity?  That’s only important when two whites guys are living in the same neighborhood.  Gotta break-em up, might be a Klan meeting about to begin?

I’ve written to this Board of Trustee’s a few times now asking them to please stop with all this politicos via racial identities, but they refuse to even respond.

I  remind the board that if we continue to recite to different ethnicity’s that they MUST maintain a group identity politic based on race rather than INDIVIDUAL ideals and moral standards, this divisiveness will never end.

So I sent them an “Open Letter”. (This is an amalgam of two)

I read last Fridays (07-08-11) Star article concerning your “redistricting” plan for TCC and was quite dismayed.  What are you thinking?  As a group you seem obsessed with race.  Why is it so important for districts to have representation based on race?  You are moving people around so they can be grouped together based on ethnicity’s?  Who do you think you are?  Masters of the Universe?  Some kind of twisted statists re-engineering YOUR populations?  You are PROMOTING a state sanctioned SEGREGATION?   This is disturbed and distorted thinking.

The  bias expressed by this redistricting plan is troubling.  Why do the trustee’s have such anger and fury, such limited interest for their “Anglo” citizens that they gather as an assembly specifically to disenfranchise and diminish one’s status?  Equality of Ends?

“History is littered with those of good intentions seeking altruist goals through immoral measures, that somehow the end justifies the means. Experience hath shown that equality of ends is not equality at all, but a policy of picking winners over losers, and thus trading one victim class only to create another”.

And why does having a minority majority (oxymoron?) “enhance” (as your attorney Tom Carr stated), “the possibility of a minority getting elected”?  Are you saying the minority populations of Fort Worth vote ONLY based on race?    You do a disservice to the honor, values, and integrity OF ALL your constituents by ASSUMING they MUST be represented by a Board Member of the same ethnicity and MUST  vote based on race.

This is the second decade of the 21st century, please…. Tarrant County College Board of Trustee’s, put away your archaic racial prejudices and end this disruptive and perpetually antagonistic attempt to sow racial discord among the citizens of Fort Worth.

Also, what does this mean about O.K. Carters 5th  and Kristen Vandergrift’s 3rd  ”Majority Angelo”  districts “are now both roughly 45 percent Anglo and 55 percent minority”.  Are you reading these words?  55 percent MINORITY?  How can one represent 55% AND be a minority, what kind of “Orwellian” math is that?  LOL

And I thought “Anglo” peoples were now a minority here in Texas as of the 2010 census?  Why do you continue with this never-ending diminishment of one ethnicity to  advance the  agenda of another?  Are you listening to yourselves?  Please attend a cultural sensitivity class soon.

Ms. Morrison

And what is this from Gwendolyn Morrison of the Board of Trustee’s 6th district, “It seems to be a reasonable idea”, “I think the most important thing is we maintain community representation on the board”.  Are you listening to yourself Ms. Morrison?  What are you saying, think about it?  You goals are noble but your means are misguided.

“It seems reasonable”, Ms. Morrison continued.  Reasonable to assume that our citizens are biased and expect representatives based on skin color.  Is that what you think is reasonable Ms. Morrison?

When I seek a representative I don’t look for race, I look for qualities of integrity and experience; morality and standards that represent an equality of persons and ideals, not skin color.  When I choose a doctor, plumber, city councilman, etc..  I don’t opt for a “white one”, just a qualified one.

What about you Tarrant County Board of Trustee’s, what do you look for?

Mstr Rick

Authors note:  The original article is available at the link embedded in the article graphic, however the Star-Telegram has deleted the outpouring of  negative citizen comments to  TCC’s race based  redistricting plan.  You may visit my (and others) original unedited comments by visiting my Disqus account and scrolling through to find the comments of July 9th, 2011.

http://disqus.com/MstrRick/

Tarrant County College – Equality of Ends

Tarrant County College – Trinity River Campus

So, I’m currently a full time student at TCC (Tarrant County College) in Fort Worth, Texas.  Last summer, on June 14th of 2010 I  was arrested for DWI and spent two months in the Tarrant County Jail awaiting trial.  In the ensuing time I lost my job, car, was evicted in absentia from my apartment, personal belongings thrown into the street, and other possessions in storage sold at auction.

In August 0f 2010 I was  found guilty of misdemeanor DWI and released for time served.  55 years old, no money, no job, no place to live, no family or close friends to call on, and no possessions save the clothes on my back; I wander aimlessly down to East Lancaster Street, Fort Worth’s notorious “Homeless Quarter” and land at the PNS (Presbyterian Night Shelter).

Being an Army veteran who served with the 5th Infantry, 2nd Battalion in  Panama during the Independence Movement of 1976-1977, I discover I qualify for supportive housing through the VA’s Homeless Veterans Outreach Program. Most Excellent!

After two months on the waiting list living “on the street” I am finally informed that a bed is available in the building across from the shelter where I have been staying at night.  It’s

The Liberty House Fort Worth, Texas

called “The Liberty House” and quarters 30 homeless veterans with drug and/or alcohol problems in two man rooms up to two years under a Federal program known as “Grant Per Diem”.  Drug & Alcohol counseling, PTSD counseling, job search, job therapy programs, educational opportunities, etc…

Educational opportunities, yea, I like the sound of that, and I’ve got 45 credits from LSU from back in the 70′s, but my G.I. Bill expired 25 years ago?  How will I pay for it?

So, in October of 2010 after many hours at the Fort Worth library mapping out a 2 year plan for a degree program in IT security, I apply for a Federal College Pell Grant. With no income and an EFC (Expected Family Contribution) rating of $0, I am notified in Nov. that I will receive the Maximum amount, $2700 in January 2011 to attend the Spring semester at our local community college.  WOW!  That’s great right?

Not so fast.  I’ve got two years to go before I finish my AAS in IT Security and it necessitates multiple trips to our financial aid office, re-filing of applications and so on.  By March, after spending most of the grant money on tuition, books, laptop pc, internet access, and assorted sundries I began seeking out additional funding sources.  In April I filled out the TCC Foundation Scholarship application and applied for over 20 scholarships that may provide additional funding to qualifying students.

On May 12th, 2011 I entered our Financial Aid office and inquired with a Ms. Stephanie Castillo about the State & Federal “supplemental funding” grants TCC processes.  I am advised, “Oh no, those are not for you, they are reserved for DIVERSITY applicants”.  What???   Since when do I not count as part of diversity?  What?  Because I’m White?  “Oh no”,  she repeated, “they are just reserved programs”.  Reserved for who?

No room at the Inn for White Guys at Tarrant County College.  I seem to be getting that a lot lately.  “you don’t count”.  What?  Why do so many in Fort Worth disgorge such disdain for white guys?  I was up at the Veterans Hospital having some tests done a few months ago chatting amicably with the practitioner about Texas history and Sam Houston when suddenly she blurts out, “Yea, but you know you can’t trust anything written in them history books, they’re all written by white guys”  What???  What is it about the cultural norms at the VA  (and the Fort Worth environs) that this women thinks this is an appropriate and socially acceptable commentary?

What?  Am I supposed to be ashamed for being born white?  Does the reflection of my skin somehow annoy you?  What?  Oh, right… collective guilt.  Sorry my liberal left-wing comrades, this proletariat is just not into your “white guilt” fixation.

Minnesota Schools “White Guilt” Conference.                        click to goto article

“I do not believe in collective guilt.  It is unjust and corrosive for the sins of the past to be transmitted to generations of Americans who were not even born at those times.  I cannot be held responsible for the crimes of others simply by virtue of my race.

The destructiveness of forcing this nation to bear a perpetual collective guilt complex, to wallow in the psychosis produced by accusations of complicity is unjust.

The true moral measure of our nation will be found in the resolve towards reconciliation and restoration of our national pride, not in the continued devaluation of others based on obsolete racial hatred’s”.

So, on May 18th I meet with the director of TCC Financial Aid, Bill McMullen, “need, we base our financial aid decisions  on need only”, he tells me.  Sounds kinda vague to me?

Bill McMullen Financial Aid Director

Obfuscation?  I write the Texas Higher Education Board, Dan Weaver.  I get a letter back explaining the THECB “only distributes aid funds based on need, following lawful guidelines, and are permitted great flexibility in the decision making processes”.  I see where the financial aid office learned OBFUSCATION!  LOL

Mr. Weavers narrative continues, “we  follow  standard and accepted practices” , “no oddities in your case”, “defined by Federal guidelines” , “our packaging philosophy”.  WOW, this guy is GOOD.

Finally, on June 18th I  attend a TCC Board of Trustees meeting and speak directly to the members as a group at the public podium, “I find it debasing, insulting, and demeaning to my person to be told I’m not good enough, do not qualify for, and do not count as much as others simply because of my race”,  I told them.

Erma Hadley TCC Chancellor

At the end of my address Erma Hadley, TCC’s  Chancellor tells me, “we’ll certainly look into this”.  I haven’t heard from her since.

 Nobody likes a white guy complaining I guess.  Now here’s the really scary part.  In all this communication and discussion I am directed to the website of the THECB (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board).  Remember these are the guys who direct most of the state and federal aid that is disbursed in Texas.  Best I can tell they are the ones from whom our own TCC financial aid office takes direction from.  Guess what I find out?

The THECB 2011 Almanac.  Ok, I know, sounds innocuous enough.  Lots of statistics about different educational goals and competitive objectives for Texas.  Boring…..  Well, not really…  After you get into a couple few pages it gets quite disturbing.  As in creepy and twisted.

These guys (The Board at the THECB) have this bizarre Orwellian refracted image of a utopian society where all ethnicity’s have EXACTLY the same % of degree’s relative to their populations, mandated by the state.  Socially engineering the educational priorities of Texas students based on their (The THECB’s) own warped and myopic vision of a “Racially Hygienic” mis-topia (sic).  Creepy, Twisted, Troubling.  Vincent Price!

I don’t want to live in that type of dark world, I say make opportunity available and accessible to everyone and let the chips fall where they may.    To exclude others; to disenfranchise one group for some misguided aspiration of “Racial Balance” is just wrong.  I just wish the THECB would be straight up about their definition of what a NEED is.  If it’s based on race and ethnicity just tell us?  If one reads over this Almanac they speak of “Closing the Gap – Institutional Targets”. What they really mean is some sick twisted vision of a state controlled collective where all ethnicity’s have EXACTLY the same professions and educations, mandated by the Fountainhead.

Here’s one of their charts where they track different races and plot how many graduate from high school, go on to college, that kinda thing.  Funny thing is… they left out the white guys?

Having this state mandated “goal” of degrees manipulated by some government autocrat is just wrong.  And how does one manipulate the population to achieve such goals?   Money   That’s right, some guy (Commissioner Peredes / VC Dan Weaver?) at the THECB is going to decide who he thinks deserves more money over others because of his “philosophy” of who ”needs” to acquire a degree and who does not. This is twisted and unacceptable. Who are the THECB and by what decree do they think they can bribe the “intelligence quotient” for the state of Texas?

Of course that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong? Here’s the THECB 2011 Almanac.

All I ask of the THECB is Equality before the Law.

“History is littered with those of good intentions seeking altruist goals through immoral measures, that somehow the end justifies the means.  However, experience hath shown that Equality of Ends is not equality at all, but a policy of picking winners over losers, and thus trading one victim class only to create another.

Equality before the Law permits every man the freedom and opportunity to seek out that which motivates him, in his own best interests, to reap as he sows regardless of race“.

Lets hope this myopic imperative of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to complete a race centered metric based on ethnic modeling is soon terminated. It’s madness, madness I say!

And I thought diversity meant inclusiveness of everyone? Silly me.

Mstr Rick

Mstr Rick, a former truck driver and recovering alcoholic is currently a full time student at Tarrant County College holding a 4.0 average through his first three semesters. He expects to graduate in the summer of 2013 with an AAS in IT security.  He continues to reside at the Veterans Homeless Shelter “The Liberty House” in Fort Worth, Texas.

Marxist Indoctrination In College Textbooks

“Facts are Stubborn Things” – R. Reagan

Tarrant County College
Indoctrination of Liberal Fascism

I am a student at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth Texas taking a course that EVERY student is REQUIRED to complete REGARDLESS of their major, United States Government.

Sounds good, right?  Not so fast. The text we work out of, “Living Democracy” by Daniel Shea is a creepy twisted myopic journey through the evils of America and the US Constitution.  Really.   AmeriKKKa in the second decade of the twenty-first century is characterized as a hateful bigoted wasteland, the Constitution a failed governing system, and white men as an enduring contemporary evil.

Really, this is happening today, NOW, in an American College classroom, full of blank slates scribbling furiously.   We are taught that the concept of “Equal Opportunity” is an unjust and futile doctrine as it’s promotes INDIVIDUALISM and some individuals may strive harder and achieve greater success than others?  This is not fair our text teaches us.  P. 189 Really.

“There is a better way” we are chastised, “Equality of Condition” (outcomes), whereby policies (state party officials – The Politburo?) will acquire (confiscate through progressive taxes and eminent domain) and distribute individual and corporate wealth and productivity so that everyone is equally provided goods and services.  P. 190   Really?  This sounds strangely familiar, “From each according to his ability to each according to his need”. -Karl Marx ?

Liberal Fascism Indoctrination

Our text continues… “America’s limited concept of opportunity”… advocates…  “belief in the values of individualism and self reliance in the American ideology… and leads to a disparity that  is an accepted aspect of the American free-enterprise system and its emphasis on individualism… This Equality of Opportunity does not reflect a comprehensive goal pursued by the American governing system”. P. 190-191  Really?

This text is a Fascist exercise in Liberal excrement of the statist philosophy of conformity and dependence.  The industrious and successful are demonized as perpetrators against the public good to justify government intervention on behalf of an endless parade of “victims”.  The author attempts to convince the student that individualism, self reliance, and initiative are evil designs of a failed American Ideology.

This Author, Daniel Shea encourages the reader to embrace a new “fairer” governing system where independent thought and deeds will no longer be necessary, the omnipotent collective will provide for us all.  Individualism, freedom, and Liberty are the enemy of the state, line up my acquiescent drones and be subjugated.

It’s the second decade of the 21st Century and Americas students are safely seated in their classrooms.  Really???

Text outtakes and specific references are available via public link at Google docs here:

Living Democracy Text Outtakes

Mstr Rick