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It’s Time for an Honest Conversation about Education and Racism

21 Friday Jun 2013

Posted by Mike Sengewalt in Commentary

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Al Sharpton, jesse jackson, racism, Rahm Emanuel, schools, teachers union, unioins

Recently Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis spoke about education reform at a City Club of Chicago luncheon.

clip_image002 This speech was given a day before the first set of school closings, twenty-eight, was set to begin. Her comments are representative of the problems in the black community.

She asked: “When will there be an honest conversation about poverty and racism and inequality that hinders the delivery of an education product in our school system? When will we address the fact that rich white people think they know what’s in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos, no matter what the parents’ income or education level?” She went on to say that Chicago is the most segregated city in America.

She did not stop there. Lewis said that there are more foreclosures and school closures in minority neighborhoods. She also blamed banks for driving people out of their homes through illegal foreclosures, resulting in underutilized schools and a smaller tax base. “If the banks had not crashed our economy, the district would now have nearly $180 million more to invest in our classrooms,” she said. She forgot that banks were coerced to give loans to people who could not afford them which inevitability and predictably resulting in foreclosures and massive losses in the banking industry.

She said inequality has prevented people from embracing more revenue for schools through higher property taxes. “If you look at the majority of the tax base for property taxes in Chicago, they’re mostly white, who don’t have a real interest in paying for the education of poor black and brown children,” she said.

Of course her solution called for more school funding rather than more cuts and layoffs – pointing instead to TIF funds, taxes on commuters and financial trades, and what she called a more equitable tax system to bring in billions of dollars for schools. For the left there is never enough funding for any program.

Let’s dissect this. First, schools were closed because they were failing. Also there was an oversupply of schools and lastly a need to cut costs. The reality is that until true reform is implemented including free choice, schools will continue to fail but that is a discussion for another day. Lewis of course blames racism for the cuts despite the fact that the mayor is black and Chicago has been owned by the Democrats for decades. It is because “rich white folks” don’t understand or care about the needs of black children. I ask, when it comes to education shouldn’t the needs of black children be the same as white children, Asian children and Latino children? Should not we concern ourselves with really educating our youths rather than filling them with propaganda? Well the teacher’s unions do not care about that at all. And the Democrat politicians see the educational system as a training camp for indoctrinating future voters and rewarding their allies in the unions.

She asks when will there be an honest conversation about poverty and racism. Well her idea of an honest conversation is quite different from a truly honest discussion. Her discussion would be about blacks as victims and whites as haters. Fairness would be discussed as a need for the rich (white) folks to pay more in taxes to help out the minorities. She would not want to discuss decay of the black family unit, proliferation of single mother households, lack of responsibility of black fathers, abortion rates of young black women, unemployment rate of black youths and generational welfare in the black community, all by design and made possible by the black leaders like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and Democrat Party policy. These so called leaders thrive on the misery of blacks. Their livelihood depends on it. Democrats also have a vested interest in perpetuating victimhood and dependency in the minority communities.

Yes Ms. Lewis we do need a really honest discussion about this.

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Wake up Voters

18 Tuesday Sep 2012

Posted by Mike Sengewalt in Commentary

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hope and change, Muslim, naive, Obama, Obamacare, Quran, Rahm Emanuel, strike, teachers union, terrorist, United Nations

NaiveAmerican Most of us can probably remember when we had moments of naivety in our youth. Embarrassing moments but we learned from our experiences. We are now witnessing moments of naivety at the highest level, the President and his administration and the mayor of Chicago.

Barack Obama while campaigning on November 21, 2007 had this to say: “Well, I truly believe that the day I’m inaugurated, not only does the country look at itself differently but the world looks at America differently. If I’m reaching out to the Muslim world they understand that I’ve lived in a Muslim country and I may be a Christian but I also understand their point of view… My sister is half Indonesian, I traveled there all the way through my college years and so I’m intimately concerned with what happens in these countries and the cultures and the perspectives these folks have. And those are powerful tools for us to be able to reach out to the world and when you combine that with my work on the Senate Forum Relations Committee on everything from nuclear proliferation to issues of genocide then I think that the world will have confidence that I am listening to them and that our future and our security is tied up with our ability to work with other countries in the world. That will ultimately make us safer, and that’s something that [the Bush] administration has failed to understand.” He also said, “After my inauguration, the Middle East tensions will not exist.”

This may be naivety or just plain old arrogance. To think that just because he is a Muslim himself that the world of Muslims will forget their centuries’ old hatred of anyone non-Muslim is just ridiculous. I don’t believe he is naive at all. His mission is to punish the imperial beast called America. This mission comes from the father that he barely knew. No the naivety here is in the American people who vote Democrat year after year. They believe crap like this. They also fall into the trap of believing that the failed foreign policies of Jimmy Carter and now Obama of appeasement, apology and subordination will be successful. If we are just nice to the world they will love and respect us. Wrong. This voter naivety is only possible in a society where the primary media outlets fail to report reality in order to support the candidates most aligned with their ideology (the Democrat Party). This is also not possible if schools would actually teach history. The Democrat Party has made sure that this does not happen for generations now.

In Chicago Obama’s former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is stunned that the teachers union is actually striking on his watch. After all, the public sector unions and the Democrat Party are one in the same. Money is sucked out of union pay checks, bundled and sent to the Democrats, and then money is sucked from taxpayers and returned to unions. What he does not understand is that the unions care about only one thing, dues. Albert Shanker, founder of the United Federation of Teachers, said “When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.” Its fun to watch him squirm.

George Bush rightly declared that we are at war with terrorism. With a few isolated exceptions world-wide terrorism is perpetrated by Muslims following their war doctrine the Quran. Obama, elected because of naive voters falling for a promise of hope and change, has surrendered and laid down our arms. He is perfectly willing to allow Muslims to continue their religious quest to either convert or kill the world. There is no hope that the base of the Democrat Party will vote for anybody but a Democrat. Obama has made sure of that handcuffing millions more onto the food stamp program and when Obamacare kicks in the country will be one dependent State, just like Europe. No the independent voters must decide which America is for them. An America that is exceptional, the greatest country on earth. An America that is the strongest country in the world but the country with moral fiber. An America that is the world leader presiding over a safe world. Or just another mediocre member of the United Nations in a very dangerous world.

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