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| Permalink View Article Stats (4 comments) Promoted to Headline (H4) on 6/17/11: How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other, by B.A.R. Executive Editor Glen Ford Quicklink submitted by GLloyd Rowsey (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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Back in the mid-Nineties, devious right-wing activists at the Bradley Foundation, in Milwaukee, hit upon a 'wedge' issue designed to wreck the alliance at the core of the Democratic Party's urban base. Blacks and public employee unions -- particularly teachers -- were the foundations of Democratic power in the cities. Aware that African Americans revered education but were often in conflict with largely white teachers unions over issues of racism and community control, the Bradley gang, under president Michael Joyce, created out of whole cloth a 'movement' for publicly-funded vouchers for private schools. {Pictured are demonstrating charter school children.} |
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class warfare isn't between haves and have-nots--
by martin weiss on Saturday, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:16:11 AM
drowning government in the bathtub
by martin weiss on Saturday, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:21:46 AM
So true, Martin,
by GLloyd Rowsey on Sunday, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:44:30 AM
Evidently the link in my preceeding comment is dead.
by GLloyd Rowsey on Sunday, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:53:52 AM