2 hours ago. Conference is requiring all teams to wear social justice messages on the front of uniforms...helmet stickets...and play this social justice bs messaging on scoreboards and in stadiums. Conference will also run psa's during game broadcasts. The social justice warrior committees have taken over the sport. F ... college football including my Mountaineers. Time to boycott the program and get rid of this leftwing political ********.
Big 12-2=10 going all in for left wing loons.
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I knew after watching Herbstruet cry on TV that they were making a deliberate push for this, so long college football....its unbearable.
Unbearable is a great summary. All thse social justice movements are killing sport. These privileged players...coaches...administrators are screaming that all the "fan" bs is just that. They don't care. Why should we? Waste of money and resources.
We have a demographic problem in this country...
Some of you need to wake up to the future of the United States.
How things were 20-25 years ago won't be how they are 20-25 years in the future.
I live in the future of the United States so it doesn't make a difference to me. Some of you don't. But you can't stop demographics you can only adjust to them.
Should read Prophetic City
In the end we are all human. We celebrate the same things. A lot of us have a lot more in common than we don't.
Some of you need to wake up to the future of the United States.
How things were 20-25 years ago won't be how they are 20-25 years in the future.
I live in the future of the United States so it doesn't make a difference to me. Some of you don't. But you can't stop demographics you can only adjust to them.
Should read Prophetic City
In the end we are all human. We celebrate the same things. A lot of us have a lot more in common than we don't.
By 2045, the U.S. is projected to be a majority-minority society. Houston is already there.
To get a sense of Houston's current racial/ethnic demographics (our nation's fourth-largest city with a population of roughly 2.3 million), I created the following table*:
A book on Houston seems particularly well timed to our current moment. If we want to understand where the U.S. is heading, and where we in the higher education industry are going, there may be no better place to look than at Houston.
Let's stay with demographics for a moment before we talk about this excellent new book on Houston, Prophetic City. A quick look at the racial-ethnic profile of the future cohorts of traditional-age college students (age 18 and below) demonstrates how rapidly our higher education student body will change.
Today, just over half (50.4 percent) of the under-age-18 population is white, and 25.3 percent are Hispanic, 13.8 percent are black and 5.1 percent are Asian. By 2060, just over a third (36.5 percent) are projected to be white, where 32 percent will be Latinx, and almost 8 percent will be Asian. (With multiracial people undercounted in these percentages, and growing very quickly.) Does the current mix of faculty and staff look anything like these numbers? Do we have a pipeline in place so that those who work in higher education will resemble tomorrow's students?
Prophetic City combines two of my favorite nonfiction genres: city biographies and sociological studies.
Houston is a city that I've never visited. After reading Prophetic City, I want to go.
What I did know about Houston, before reading Prophetic City, mostly centered around Rice University. Anyone who works in higher education is highly aware of Rice's quality; the school is ranked in the top 20 national universities and the top 10 for best undergraduate teaching.
What I learned from reading Prophetic City is that Houston is that the city is not only home to one of the world's finest universities. It is also one of the nation's fastest-growing and most dynamic cities. Named by GQ magazine as the "New Capital of Southern Cool," Houston seems like the place to go for restaurants and other cultural amenities.
Did you know that Houston has the most total park acreage of any large U.S. city? I didn't. While I did know about Houston's rapid population growth, I hadn't quite realized how relatively affordable the city's housing market is. And while I knew about Harvey and Enron, I did not know about all the biking paths, museums and farmers markets that Houston had to offer.
What is laudable about Prophetic City is that this is not a book of Houston boosterism. Klineberg is a sociology professor, and Prophetic City is a sociological look at a complex and challenging large urban area. The book does not shy away from cataloging Houston's problems. These include growing levels of inequality, inadequately funded public schools and underdeveloped zoning and land-use regulations.
What Klineberg does beautifully in this book is to show that the challenges that Houston is grappling with today will be the challenges that the rest of us will be facing tomorrow. Houston provides a demographic, and perhaps an economic window, on what the U.S. will look like in a fully globalized and multiracial/multiethnic future.
The social and economic realities of Houston seem to be dramatically out of step with the political rhetoric and policies pursued by both Texas's statewide politicians and what is coming out of Washington.
Klineberg is hopeful that Houston will follow a more progressive path in the future, with more significant public investment in infrastructure and services. He argues that Houston will need to invest in its people, particularly as economic activity related to extractive energy industries inevitably gives way to renewables. I'm not quite as optimistic as Klineberg, as an alternative future where Houston doubles down on a low-tax, low-regulation and low-public-investment way of living can easily be envisioned.
What Prophetic City did make me want to do is visit Houston, a city that does not get nearly enough visitors. If Rice holds a conference on learning innovation (assuming that in-person meetings are not a thing of the past), I'd like to attend.
What can you tell us about Houston?
What biographies of cities would you recommend?
What are you reading?
To get a sense of Houston's current racial/ethnic demographics (our nation's fourth-largest city with a population of roughly 2.3 million), I created the following table*:
| Houston 2019 | U.S. 2019 | U.S. 2045 | |
| Hispanic or Latino | 44.8% | 18.3% | 24.6% |
| Non-Hispanic White (Anglo) | 24.6% | 60.4% | 49.7% |
| Black or African American | 22.5% | 13.4% | 13.1% |
| Asian | 6.5% | 5.9% | 7.9% |
| Multiracial | 2.1% | 2.7% | 3.8% |
Let's stay with demographics for a moment before we talk about this excellent new book on Houston, Prophetic City. A quick look at the racial-ethnic profile of the future cohorts of traditional-age college students (age 18 and below) demonstrates how rapidly our higher education student body will change.
Today, just over half (50.4 percent) of the under-age-18 population is white, and 25.3 percent are Hispanic, 13.8 percent are black and 5.1 percent are Asian. By 2060, just over a third (36.5 percent) are projected to be white, where 32 percent will be Latinx, and almost 8 percent will be Asian. (With multiracial people undercounted in these percentages, and growing very quickly.) Does the current mix of faculty and staff look anything like these numbers? Do we have a pipeline in place so that those who work in higher education will resemble tomorrow's students?
Prophetic City combines two of my favorite nonfiction genres: city biographies and sociological studies.
Houston is a city that I've never visited. After reading Prophetic City, I want to go.
What I did know about Houston, before reading Prophetic City, mostly centered around Rice University. Anyone who works in higher education is highly aware of Rice's quality; the school is ranked in the top 20 national universities and the top 10 for best undergraduate teaching.
What I learned from reading Prophetic City is that Houston is that the city is not only home to one of the world's finest universities. It is also one of the nation's fastest-growing and most dynamic cities. Named by GQ magazine as the "New Capital of Southern Cool," Houston seems like the place to go for restaurants and other cultural amenities.
Did you know that Houston has the most total park acreage of any large U.S. city? I didn't. While I did know about Houston's rapid population growth, I hadn't quite realized how relatively affordable the city's housing market is. And while I knew about Harvey and Enron, I did not know about all the biking paths, museums and farmers markets that Houston had to offer.
What is laudable about Prophetic City is that this is not a book of Houston boosterism. Klineberg is a sociology professor, and Prophetic City is a sociological look at a complex and challenging large urban area. The book does not shy away from cataloging Houston's problems. These include growing levels of inequality, inadequately funded public schools and underdeveloped zoning and land-use regulations.
What Klineberg does beautifully in this book is to show that the challenges that Houston is grappling with today will be the challenges that the rest of us will be facing tomorrow. Houston provides a demographic, and perhaps an economic window, on what the U.S. will look like in a fully globalized and multiracial/multiethnic future.
The social and economic realities of Houston seem to be dramatically out of step with the political rhetoric and policies pursued by both Texas's statewide politicians and what is coming out of Washington.
Klineberg is hopeful that Houston will follow a more progressive path in the future, with more significant public investment in infrastructure and services. He argues that Houston will need to invest in its people, particularly as economic activity related to extractive energy industries inevitably gives way to renewables. I'm not quite as optimistic as Klineberg, as an alternative future where Houston doubles down on a low-tax, low-regulation and low-public-investment way of living can easily be envisioned.
What Prophetic City did make me want to do is visit Houston, a city that does not get nearly enough visitors. If Rice holds a conference on learning innovation (assuming that in-person meetings are not a thing of the past), I'd like to attend.
What can you tell us about Houston?
What biographies of cities would you recommend?
What are you reading?
If you can't be an American you can at least be from West Virginia. At least a city.
People are going to have pride being from somewhere even if they originally didn't.
You are going to be from Texas is you are living there. It is in your face unlike any state.
People are going to have pride being from somewhere even if they originally didn't.
You are going to be from Texas is you are living there. It is in your face unlike any state.
I'm a bit concerned about the Big 12 inserting itself in the middle of how individual teams handle social justice issues. It could turn into something like "let's outdo everybody else." I think nearly everyone believe that there are legitimate racial issues that needed attention in our society. And that the only way to solve these problems is by coming together. To the phrase "black lives matter" there is only one response - "of course."
My worry is that "Black Lives Matter" - the organization has among things it encourages is to take a knee during our National Anthem. To a huge majority that is NOT something that unites.
So I have a suggestion for the Mountaineers on the field. Have the team and staff kneel BEFORE the National Anthem and stand DURING the National Anthem. That way both protest and respect is recognized. I believe that such an action would be a force for unity - at a time when we need it. The Mountaineers would be showing how
both protest and respect can be accommodated. I hope those that agree with this approach would contact the football office and the Shane Lyons' office to make this suggestion.
One reason for the suggestion in that West Virginia has the highest percentage of veterans in its population than any other state. Nearly all consider taking a knee for the National Anthem to be a despicable sign of disrespect to the country in general and to veterans in particular.
One of the people making the decision in the Big 12 is a retired Air Force 4 star General
This conference supports this country fully.
Let's not throw ******** out there. Problem is a lot of people have ******** placed into their heads and they don't understand where the division is actually coming from.
Not the minorities. Not the black and brown people.
They aren't the enemy. They are American citizens like you and in the future will make up a large part of this country. Especially the military.
This conference supports this country fully.
Let's not throw ******** out there. Problem is a lot of people have ******** placed into their heads and they don't understand where the division is actually coming from.
Not the minorities. Not the black and brown people.
They aren't the enemy. They are American citizens like you and in the future will make up a large part of this country. Especially the military.
This article gives a great view of what is going on.
This rejection of the future is going to determine what happens in this country.
Some of us are older and we already determined how we want things. But the people who are younger are the ones who are going to make the decision.
How long does this rejection last...
There is a lot of fear on both sides. You speak of fear. Using fear to get people to vote a certain way.
For the most part that is the world we are living in.
Regarding Biden and China...
You do know the Obama/Biden administration are the ones who ramped up the militarization of India.
India is the #1 piece in our battle with China
This is from 2010. From the BBC
For the most part that is the world we are living in.
Regarding Biden and China...
You do know the Obama/Biden administration are the ones who ramped up the militarization of India.
India is the #1 piece in our battle with China
This is from 2010. From the BBC
US lost jobs because Biden loves 'made in China': Navarro
Biden victory would mean 'devastation in the Midwest, our blue-collar workers just getting hammered,' White House trade adviser says
The U.S. lost 5 million manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2014, and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro blamed the hemorrhaging numbers on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's China policy on Sunday.
A Biden victory would mean "devastation in the Midwest, our blue-collar workers just getting hammered," Navarro told "Sunday Morning Futures."
Economic security is national security. That's one of the principles of the Trump Administration and what we learned from this China virus pandemic," Navarro said. "If we bring those jobs back onshore as we have been doing, we will create great jobs at great wages but also protect the American people from the Chinese communist party."
Source....
Peter Navarro is playing politics. Understand the difference.
Playing to the Rust Belt.
Peter Navarro is playing politics. Understand the difference.
Playing to the Rust Belt.
China has indicated that it might not be against an Indian seat, but would it want Japan? Would Pakistan and South Korea?
Would other Latin American countries agree on Brazil? Would the US accept a third European power (Germany) on the Council?
The permutations are almost insuperable.
Therefore India cannot look for a quick fix following this now open American support.
So uneducated that your funny at times.
Would other Latin American countries agree on Brazil? Would the US accept a third European power (Germany) on the Council?
The permutations are almost insuperable.
Therefore India cannot look for a quick fix following this now open American support.
So uneducated that your funny at times.
you're*
Things have changed with China and India
Foreign Policy doesn't change much from president to president.
Except in the case of Iran. Trump thought he could win an election by using Iran. But Iran was another place the US was going to use against China. But now....China is heavily involved in Iran.
Things have changed with China and India
Foreign Policy doesn't change much from president to president.
Except in the case of Iran. Trump thought he could win an election by using Iran. But Iran was another place the US was going to use against China. But now....China is heavily involved in Iran.
Oh boy a nazi grammar ball buster. Sometimes spell check works and sometimes it don't. The other times a trap is laid to make of of a troll later on.
To think somehow a change in president is going to take the pressure off China is crazy.
Because the actual pressure on China started under Obama/Biden and continued with Trump.
Because the actual pressure on China started under Obama/Biden and continued with Trump.
Those people are needed to serve in the military
If the US is involved in a major war they need all the people they can get. Don't matter what color they are. Once they join the military they are the same color.
Like I said a couple of months ago the US is as close to a major war as they have been in the last 40 years.
China and Iran will be in Russia taking part in joint military drills.
If the US is involved in a major war they need all the people they can get. Don't matter what color they are. Once they join the military they are the same color.
Like I said a couple of months ago the US is as close to a major war as they have been in the last 40 years.
China and Iran will be in Russia taking part in joint military drills.
Have to stay away from these emotionally charged divisive things....
I am not top of things because I am older but we have no idea who is committing the crimes...
But your response isn't helping ...
Making blacks angrier.
I am not top of things because I am older but we have no idea who is committing the crimes...
But your response isn't helping ...
Making blacks angrier.
Dumbest reply ever made by a 12 year old on our boards. Go home grow up and come back when you become educated with something besides cut and paste.
We have people who are talking about turning against WVU....
Think about that for a minute. Think how dangerous that is for a country who could be heading to a major war.
People who will turn their backs on something they care deeply about.
We love this country for what it is and no one wants it to turn in something that it isn't.
We can easily become an authoritarian state...
But that isn't what we are about.
Think about that for a minute. Think how dangerous that is for a country who could be heading to a major war.
People who will turn their backs on something they care deeply about.
We love this country for what it is and no one wants it to turn in something that it isn't.
We can easily become an authoritarian state...
But that isn't what we are about.