Of Course It's Racist

What took civil rights activists so goddamned long to file lawsuits against school districts that close schools and set up phony baloney charters in their place? Hell's bells, look no further than Miltie Friedman scheme regarding school vouchers, which he came up with as a solution to the "problem" of Brown v. Board of Education?

Arne Duncan isn't going anywhere because Obama believes the same bullshit Duncan does. This tells you all you need to know about who really supports Obama and Duncan, and it isn't the American voter.

Members of the group, a patchwork of community organizations called the Journey for Justice Movement, have filed several Title VI civil rights complaints with the Education Department Office of Civil Rights, claiming that school districts that shut schools are hurting minority students. While most school closures are decided locally, the Education Department's School Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closures.

The meeting became heated at times. "The voices of the people directly impacted can no longer be ignored," said Jitu Brown, an organizer from the South Side of Chicago. "This type of mediocrity is only accepted because of the race of the students who are being served." He called school closures "a violation of our human rights," since many communities are left without neighborhood schools after districts shut them down.

"We are not Astroturf groups," Brown continued. "We are not people who are paid by private interests to appear."

Helen Moore, an organizer from Detroit, said the current reform movement is tantamount to racism. "We are now reverting back to slavery," she said. "All the things that are happening are by design, by design, by design. They don't want our children to have an education, but we'll fight to the death."

That's EXACTLY what it is. It's an all-out assault on the poor, which is disproportionately minority.

Furthermore, why is TFA allowed to exist, even though it wasn't founded as a racist organization, but is given taxpayer money to infiltrate our Title I schools with unqualified teachers? The message is loud and clear from TFA that poor students don't deserve the best, most qualified, most veteran teachers, unlike the white kids in suburbia.

The only students that count are those in the 99th percentile on tests AND who live in the wealthier areas, and they are to be segregated from the lowlifes of the 99 percent. Those tiny number of students are the only ones that will be allowed to earn any kind of living that will support themselves in the economy of the future.