Gee, I'm too picky when you make an unfounded claim and I call you on it...and then, because I caught you lying about Ayers and called you on it, I am automatically an Ayers defender.
Not true. I claimed Ayers said certain things. IN QUOTES. And based on various sources (including very liberal media) it appears he did say those things. And he hasn't denied saying them. I claimed he, his girlfriend at the time, his current wife, and the organization he helped found were involved in building bombs whose purpose was to kill hundreds of people. And based on sources from liberal media, statements from his own book, and sworn testimony by someone who was there at the time, he was involved. I claimed his wife was a murderer. Even Ayers seems to have admitted that. Your desperate attempt to label what I wrote a lie, based SOLELY on a letter Ayers MAY have written in 2001, is obviously nothing more than a red herring on your part or a display of utter gullibility. And why else would you engage in such a tactic unless you are an Ayers defender? At one point you even claimed that the bomb Ayers admits was intended to kill people wasn't intended for that purpose. That is the degree to which you appear willing to defend Ayers and thus Obama.
He is not relevant to the Obama administration.
That's obviously untrue.
Ayers is a man who worked closely with Obama on multiple projects over more than a decade ...
Who as a co-chair with Obama even ran the largest single project of Obama's career up until the time he ran for President ...
Who it's admitted regularly emailed and phoned Obama to share ideas (presumably radical ones since those appear to be the only ideas that Ayers has) ...
Who appeared with Obama at academic panels, including one organized by Michelle Obama to discuss Ayers' book ...
Whose wife (Dohrn) mentored Obama during the time he interned at a law firm with strong ties to the Ayers' family ...
Whose wife (Dohrn) was also a personal friend of a principle at another law firm that Obama worked for at one time ...
Who has lived within blocks of Obama the entire time ...
Whose house was used for the gathering (of communists) where Obama was introduced into politics for the first time ...
Who has endorsed Obama multiple times for elections ...
And who coauthored several radical books with a woman who was the top education advisor to Obama during his Presidential campaign.
That is most certainly relevant ...
Especially when Ayers is an unrepentent terrorist who organization at one time formally declared war on the US.
Especially when Ayers chief focus is on education of a most radical kind.
Especially when Obama and his campaign have clearly lied about and hidden the nature of their relationship.
Ayers, Obama, AND OTHERS INCLUDING REPUBLICANS worked together on the Annenberg education program.
First of all, only Ayers and Obama were co-chairs on that project.
Second, let's see the names of the republicans that you claim worked on CAC, what part they actually had in it, and whether they actually had contact with Ayers.
In fact, the truth is that CAC was criticized heavily by conservatives from its outset.
They had a 100 million dollar budget.
Actually, it was more than a 100 million dollars that they wasted. Somewhere between $110 million and $160 million depending on what you read.
You have referred to it repeatedly, generally focusing on its failure to improve achievement.
A study done by the Consortium on Chicago School Research concluded "among the schools it supported, the Challenge had little impact on school improvement and student outcomes, with no statistically significant differences between Annenberg and non-Annenberg schools in rates of achievement gain, classroom behavior, student self-efficacy, and social competence."
Can you provide any evidence that Ayers and Obama used this program to indoctrinate Chicago's youth with communist ideology?
In the first year of it's existence, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge gave $175,000 to a group (Small Schools Workshop) that Ayers created and then turned over to Mike Klonsky, a former member of the SDS and maoist. All in all, CAC gave nearly 2 million dollars to this group (over a million under Obama's watch). Here's a story on one of that effort's small schools, what they teach and how they go about teaching:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080225/doster
"The parents kept saying they really wanted our school to teach the values of peace and struggle," says Rito Martinez, the principal of Social Justice High School ... snip ... One of four small schools housed on the campus, Martinez's social justice school was specifically created to foster basic skills and literacy--as well as critical inquiry--through projects and problems centered on race, gender and economic equity. ... snip ... While the history of LVLHS's genesis is unique, its approach is not; the movement to link education, social justice and activism is appealing to a growing number of educators and community organizations around the country. ... snip ... Conservatives, with the New York Sun and City Journal leading the charge, have denounced the movement for indoctrinating public school students with leftist politics at the expense of general education.
You read the description in that link and try to convince us that isn't a description of indoctrination in socialist and communist ideas. In his schools, the teacher preaches “social justice” and that American capitalism is a racist, materialist, imperialist and unjust. Try to convince us that is not indoctrination into the communist ideology that Klonsky has advocated for nearly 40 years.
You keep in mind that Klonsky's father was an American communist who was convicted in the 1950s of advocating the forcible overthrow of the United States government. You keep in mind that in the 1960s, Klonsky teamed with Ayers, Dohrn, and other radicals to form the SDS and it was from the SDS that Ayers and Dohrn founded the Weatherman. You keep in mind that Klonsky formed a Maoist organization, first called the “October League,” which became the “Communist Party (Marxist Leninist).” He was among the first Americans invited to visit Communist China. This is a hard core communist, and he was given millions by CAC and Obama to educate our youth.
And finally, you keep in mind that Obama's campaign gave Klonsky a blog on the official Obama campaign website to spread his ideas of “social justice”. It was only shut down when a conservative started pointing it out to the media. Then all traces of Klonsky were scrubbed from the campaign. Do you understand that Obama was trying to hide this association from voters? Do you see why? Do you begin to understand why Obama's past associations are important? Or are you still so clueless as to claim this is irrelevant despite the fact these people will very likely be controlling the education of our children under Obama's administration?
Here's another example of the extremist, racist, anti-capitalist ideology promoted by CAC:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTQ0YjhlOGVhYjQ0OWRhZjI2MmM4NTQ4NGM5Mjg0MzU=
In the winter of 1996, the Coalition for Improved Education in [Chicago’s] South Shore (CIESS) announced that it had received a $200,000 grant from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
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The South Shore African Village Collaborative (SSAVC) was very much a part of the Afrocentric “rites of passage movement,” a fringe education crusade of the 1990s.
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To learn what the rites of passage movement was all about, we can turn to a sympathetic 1992 study published in the Journal of Negro Education by Nsenga Warfield-Coppock. In that article, Warfield-Coppock bemoans the fact that public education in the United States is shaped by “capitalism, competitiveness, racism, sexism and oppression.”
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We know that SSAVC was part of this movement, not only because their Annenberg proposals were filled with Afrocentric themes and references to “rites of passage,” but also because SSAVC’s faculty set up its African-centered curriculum in consultation with some of the most prominent leaders of the “rites of passage movement.” For example, a CIESS teacher conference sponsored a presentation on African-centered curricula by Jacob Carruthers, a particularly controversial Afrocentrist.
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According to Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, Carruthers’s training session on African-centered curricula for SSAVC teachers was a huge hit: “As a consciousness raising session, it received rave reviews, and has prepared the way for the curriculum readiness survey....” These teacher-training workshops were directly funded by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Another sure sign of the ideological cast of SSAVC’s curriculum can be found in Annenberg documents noting that SSAVC students are taught the wisdom of Ptahhotep. Carruthers’s concerns about “menticide” and “genocide” at the hand of America’s white supremacist system seem to be echoed in an SSAVC document that says: “Our children need to understand the historical context of our struggles for liberation from those forces that seek to destroy us.”
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When Jeremiah Wright turned toward African-centered thinking ... snip ... many prominent thinkers from Carruthers’s Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations were invited to speak at Trinity United Church of Christ, Carruthers himself included.
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Discretely waiting until after the election, Bill Ayers and his wife, and fellow former terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn plan to release a book in 2009 entitled Race Course Against White Supremacy. The book will be published by Third World Press, a press set up by Carruthers and other members of the ASCAC.
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And as noted, Wright had invited Carruthers, Hilliard, and like-minded thinkers to address his Trinity congregants. Wright likes to tick off his connections to these prominent Afrocentrists in sermons, and Obama would surely have heard of them. Reading over SSAVC’s Annenberg proposals, Obama could hardly be ignorant of what they were about. And if by some chance Obama overlooked Hilliard’s or Carruthers’s names, SSAVC’s proposals are filled with references to “rites of passage” and “Ptahhotep,” dead giveaways for the anti-American and separatist ideological concoction favored by SSAVC.
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We know that Obama did read the proposals. Annenberg documents show him commenting on proposal quality. And especially after 1995, when concerns over self-dealing and conflicts of interest forced the Ayers-headed “Collaborative” to distance itself from monetary issues, all funding decisions fell to Obama and the board. Significantly, there was dissent within the board. One business leader and experienced grant-smith characterized the quality of most Annenberg proposals as “awful.” ... snip ... Yet Obama and his very small and divided board kept the money flowing to ideologically extremist groups like the South Shore African Village Collaborative, instead of organizations focused on traditional educational achievement.
Here's another article describing in detail the funding of very radical organizations and projects by groups where Obama was a board member ... like the Wood Fund and the Joyce Foundation, CAC and the Small Schools Workshop being two of the recipients.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=78106
And although not about CAC, specifically, here is an eye opening source that talks at length about Ayers' and his like-minded colleagues' efforts to indoctrinate our youth and those who will shape our youth with their communist derived notions of "social justice" and wealth redistribution.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_3_ed_school.html
Some excerpts:
The Ed Schools’ Latest—and Worst—Humbug
Sol Stern
Teaching for “social justice” is a cruel hoax on disadvantaged kids.
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Future teachers signing up for Ayers’s course “On Urban Education” can read these exhortations from the course description on the professor’s website:
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“In a truly just society there would be a greater sharing of the burden, a fairer distribution of material and human resources.”
For another course, titled “Improving Learning Environments,” Ayers proposes that teachers “be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and . . . be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, a teacher teaching for social justice and liberation.”
The readings that Ayers assigns are as intellectually stimulating and diverse as a political commissar’s indoctrination session in one of his favorite communist tyrannies.
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In 1997, Ayers and his mentor Maxine Greene persuaded Teachers College Press to launch a series of books on social justice teaching, with Ayers as editor and Greene serving on the editorial board (along with Rashid Khalidi, loyal supporter of the Palestinian cause and the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University). Twelve volumes have appeared so far, including one titled Teaching Science for Social Justice.
Teaching science for social justice? Let Teachers College professor Angela Calabrese Barton, the volume’s principal author, try to explain: “The marriages between capitalism and education and capitalism and science have created a foundation for science education that emphasizes corporate values at the expense of social justice and human dignity.” The alternative? “Science pedagogy framed around social justice concerns can become a medium to transform individuals, schools, communities, the environment, and science itself, in ways that promote equity and social justice. Creating a science education that is transformative implies not only how science is a political activity but also the ways in which students might see and use science and science education in ways transformative of the institutional and interpersonal power structures that play a role in their lives.” If you still can’t appreciate why it’s necessary for your child’s chemistry teacher to teach for social justice, you are probably hopelessly wedded to reason, empiricism, individual merit, and other capitalist and post-colonialist deformities.
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So why do education professors who claim to care for the poor continue to agitate for instruction that holds back poor children? Either the professors are stupid (possible), or (more likely) they care more about their own anti-American, anticapitalist agendas than they do about the actual education of children.
