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Crotchity, I was raped by a black man. Could you please pm me with your real name and address, and my lawyer will contact you, as I expect compensation from you, and your family, to cover all my living, medical, and education expenses for me and my family. As I am certain that this will affect my grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren, I expect that a fund will be set up to cover all of their living and educational expenses too. That seems fair. I expect your pm shortly.

I feel your pain. My first ride out was a total bust as well. As students, we were told to show up 10 minutes early to check in and what not, and I ended up beating my crew to the station and got assigned to a completely different unit. These medics were not expecting to have a student that day. They were climbing in their rig when the director came up and told them that they were going to be stuck with a student. Of course, they were not happy and I had to hear about it all day! I spent 12 hours with them and for most of the time they complained about how much they hated having students tag along because they never got good calls, etc etc. It made for a very uncomfortable situation. They were foul-mouthed and extremely rude, and I was a bit offended. HOWEVER, the paper work for my review on them asked nothing about a personal experience. It asked about how my preceptors practiced medicine and if I learned anything. They got a good review because yes, I did learn things even though they did not explain what they were doing or why they were doing it...which I actually found more helpful than them just coming out and answering my questions. I ended up looking up the answers to my questions in my text book (which I took with me). So after we would drop patients off, I would pull out my book as they were filling out their PCR and look for the answers to my questions. But because of the crappy environment, I attached a note to my review for our director to read and explained what happened and how I would not necessarily recommend that they set up anymore students with this set of medics (we didn't schedule our own, the director set them up for us). Thankfully, I was one of several who has said the same thing about this group, and was told that no other students were scheduled to ride with them for this reason. Point of this long-winded reply? You should make the review about the medicine practiced. If they did a good job and treated their patients with the respect they should have, then the review itself should be a good one. But you also need to make it known about the comments and the uncomfortable situation/bad learning environment. If no one says anything, more students will end up with this group. And it sounds like you did not learn much, which is the point of the ride outs. Don't let one bad experience ruin this experience for you! Our program required us to partake in 50 hours of ride outs in 5 weeks. I met a lot of people, and each have their own way of teaching and dealing with students. I found some that I really liked, and some that I couldn't stand. Make it known to at least your program director about any problems you had with your crew. Nothing is going to change if you don't say something. Hopefully you will meet someone who loves to teach and who will make a positive impact on your life! Good luck!

He can't reply directly to those complicated questions that may require some intellect to answer. By his own theory, he is too unevolved.

Of course he's not going to directly address those issues and questions, because it's far easier to sit back and cry "UNFAIR!"; rather than roll up his sleeves and actually produce any type of solution to the problem! The point remains that you're engaging in the very same behaviors that you're rallying against (even if it's directed at a particular lifestyle as opposed as a race). Either way, it's the same behavior that you're accusing us all of. You claim how much whites OWE you. YOU were never a slave, YOU weren't part of the segregated schools, therefore the ONLY one that OWES you anything is YOU! You're not entitled to anything more than anyone else is.... you got a free education up to the age of 16, or graduation. How you took advantage of that opportunity (or didn't) is all on YOU. Whether you actually do the work to make something of your life is all on YOUR shoulders, not the whites, not the other minorities, women or whomever you wish to blame for not being as successful as you'd like to be. Want something more than what you've got? Do it like the rest of us and actually get your hands dirty doing the work it takes to improve your lot in life! Lao Tzu is credited with the Chinese proverb: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." You have been given the tools and taught to fish. If you're still hungry for more, then its up to YOU to cut bait and fish, or shut up!

You aren't beating a dead horse, you are beating a Buick. This topic was about lowering the standards so that more blacks can pass an exam. You are comparing accomplishments and test scores with being gay-we'll forget for a moment WHY that behavior exists. Completely different notions. One is about intellectual ability, and the other is about a lifestyle. BTW- You ARE a racist- albeit backwards- since you believe that blacks deserve special treatment simply because of the color of their skin. The beauty of your argument is that even though slavery has not directly affected a single living person here for generations, that skin color still somehow entitles you to "compensation" for past wrongs. Enter institutional racism, cultural racism, and every other similar idea that will never have an expiration date. Now if you are suggesting blacks NEED that extra help and consideration because they are incapable of competing head to head with everyone else, now that's an entirely different argument. Do you also advocate affirmative action for Japanese americans, since thousands of them- US citizens at the time- were interred in prisons? How about Native Americans? What about every immigrant group who came here and was treated like crap? What about the Chinese who were essentially forced to work on our railroads in the 1800's? Why do you think think those groups don't have similar mechanisms in place to address their past injustices?

I am not aware of any question I have not answered, but feel free to send them to me, and I will answer. To your current question of how do we fix it: 1. African Americans should have a free scholarship to the college of their choice for the next 200 years. 2. African Americans should not be required to pay taxes on any income for 200 years. 3. African Americans should receive 0 interest loans for cars, homes, and lifestyle purchases for 200 years. 4. Every African American should receive $1,000,0000.00 in reparations. 5. Every employer must have a work force and management force that has a minimum of 25% african americans. I can live with that.