dagblog - Comments for "Jim Crow just another name for School Choice!"

Well, it's only complex when

wabby — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:50:45 +0000

Well, it's only complex when you have simpletons running the rodeo.

I seem to recall George

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:46:09 +0000

In reply to Oh, and also, I saw during

I seem to recall George Wallace and Lester Maddox standing up Samson-like in the doorways of those great institutions of learning to defend freedom of educational choice for all students. Or maybe I disremember a bit, it's been so long.... hep me, fellas, hep me. Who would have known it'd be so complex.

Nice thanks for the link.

tmccarthy0 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:46:06 +0000

In reply to Chris Savage from Eclectablog

Nice thanks for the link.

It's weird to me that there

tmccarthy0 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:45:12 +0000

In reply to DeVos the the Secretary of

It's weird to me that there are people out there in our nation who are in charge of stuff who don't know anything about our history, she seems to have no idea that we barred our own citizens from higher education because of the color of their skin. This is the ultimate in propaganda, and it's disgusting.

The analogy doesn't even make

tmccarthy0 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:43:00 +0000

In reply to What's most remarkable is

The analogy doesn't even make any sense.

Exactly this Mike. It makes no sense if you know something about history and Jim Crow and institutional racism. It's clear that DeVos doesn't know anything about American history, but here she is in charge of the Department of Education. Yikes! This must be a return to our own dark ages, a new anti-intellectualism which revolves around propaganda and outright lies and obfuscation of history. I'm reading Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle to try to wrap my head around this era. I probably need more alcohol or something for this to make sense.

40% of the country support

rmrd0000 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:17:34 +0000

In reply to What's most remarkable is

40% of the country support Trump. They likely had no problem with DeVos' original statement. Jeff Sessions at the DOJ is putting the brakes on opposing voter suppression. Trump thinks that the Central Park Five are guilty despite the evidence. He thought that John Lewis' district had to be poor because he views blacks as poverty-stricken. We have Steve Bannon as a senior advisor. David Duke is in political heaven. Trump supporters see all this and find nothing wrong. They are deplorable.

Oh, and also, I saw during

wabby — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:12:58 +0000

In reply to Jim Crow just another name for School Choice!

Oh, and also, I saw during his speech last night, (yes, I watched bits and pieces of it while old X-Files reruns went to commercial) Trump managed to drag in a young African-American woman who not only was the first in her family to graduate high school, but also college. All because she was given an opportunity to attend a "school of choice". Apparently she did not do well in the local public school.The underfunded, broken down building local public school.

Chris Savage from Eclectablog

wabby — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:03:13 +0000

In reply to Jim Crow just another name for School Choice!

Chris Savage from Eclectablog wrote a piece similar to yours. He was equally disgusted by Miz Betsy's comparison. In fact he tagged the piece "education, racism."

What's most remarkable is

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 12:43:47 +0000

In reply to Jim Crow just another name for School Choice!

What's most remarkable is that this wasn't some off-the-cuff idiocy. It's a press release that was presumably edited and vetted. The language is not just insulting to African-Americans, historically inaccurate, and politically moronic. The analogy doesn't even make any sense.

Most of what he promised he

ocean-kat — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 06:51:02 +0000

In reply to DeVos the the Secretary of

Most of what he promised he can't do. He can't replace the ACA with something better and cheaper. He can't bring jobs back. Cutting taxes will not create a higher GDP or increase jobs. His infrastructure plan, if he can get it passed, will not create a lot of jobs. All of that is really complicated to accomplish and you know, nobody knew how complicated all those issues are. All he can do is ban Muslims and deport immigrants. We'll see if that''s enough for his supporters.