WATCH: Angelo State Delivers Powerful Message

Tired of hearing about a methed out felon? I know I am.

What one does is more important than what one says. One's values, beliefs, attitudes, and understandings drive personal action. It remains to be seen if these expressions are for the sole purpose of releasing and presenting emotions or, as would be hoped, are a delineation of the foundations which will create action. Racism is a secret ill. No one wants to be perceived as racist, and so the politically correct thing to do is to say the politically correct things and do the politically correct minimum. One of the finest professors of African descent that I have ever known left Angelo State because they could not get ahead. They grew a program from six students to over 100. They did nothing expedient or self-serving but their impact was huge in their own quiet way. Eventually the professor left to be with people more like himself , where it was okay to be black and intelligent and ambitious for others and not trotted out as an example of university diversity. Racists know exactly what they are doing with their power, and they are sly about it. The data on diversity at Angelo State is available to anyone; take a look. Women, women of color, men of color, LGBTQ++, the poverty stricken, the homeless. Listen to the stories...of professors smiling and nodding while they ask you to purchase textbooks for a few weeks that cost over $400. Listen to the stories...of students keeping guns in their dorms and threatening with them. Listen to the stories...of the isolation in the middle of a crowd, the fear of being called on or called out, the exclusivity natural to late teens and young adults, the fear of not being smart enough or too smart, of not fitting in or of fitting in too well. Listen to the stories. Pay attention to what is happening in your own neighborhood, in your own town, in your own schools...all of them.
Angelo State depends on students to help them get their national ratings; without students there is nothing but an empty campus. It is time to personalize campus relationships with students and not just pluck some strategies out of a manual. It is time to quit getting tenure on the backs on student of student success and engagement. The tenure system is antiquated; there are new and different approaches for faculty to prove their worth to their masters and one is having students who succeed in life, in the workforce, in their health, and in their attitudes.

Thanks for sharing. All your colleagues at Live did was point out crowd size, leaving the reader clamoring, "where's the beef?"

She talked about how it's not what people say that's important, it's what they do. A good tree will not produce bad fruit, and a bad tree will not produce good fruit. Wisdom and knowledge from the Bible that is timeless.

"... Many across America and here in San Angelo have gathered to protest his life. "
-Manny Diaz, SanAngeloLive.com

All of the verses you listed "ME", are being viewed out of context, very easy to do... when you haven't read into why those verses say what they say.

You did misspell "teach", in the last part where you talked about how the Bible doesn't tech people to think for themselves and how we aren't that bright.

I'm sure what I'm typing right here has technical errors all over and any true English teacher could just as quickly reprimand me so...

I'm sure I've a few more humbling's in store for myself, I am a husband and father and that's been quite humbling already.

:)

The Bible is hands down, uncontested as the most authenticated work of literature in all of antiquity, if we so easily throw those facts away, the implications of what else we must throw out among philosophers and historians alike are so huge that if your side of the arguement is true than everything really does mean nothing...

So if you really believe that comment about the Bible being muddled up, it's from bad television, lack of reading it yourself and researching it for context and failure to be honest with yourself about your surface level arguement. I have actually taken the time to hash these arguements out so I might surprise you, I don't like to bail if I dont have to.

Out of all of the stuff we can detail out, let's just start there.

I posit that the Bible is more authenticated and accurate than any other work in all the world.
Prove that to be untrue... or at least show me a comparable rival in literature.