The "Prez" at P-Tech
In my fifth Blog (C.C. Hubbard, written: 1-18-12); I explained how my generation was privileged to have so many brilliant role models of highly-educated, gifted and talented Coloreds, Blacks, Afro-Americans, and Negros, to emulate. They were all produced under a public education system that was segregated, woefully under-funded, and discriminated against in numerable ways. That system was deliberately destroyed by White Supremacists in local governments who sought to insure that social and economic advantages enjoyed by white children would not be threatened. Marching under a newly-acquired banner of the Republican Party, and led by the likes of Tricky Dick Nixon, that party has, since the early 1970s become more and more open in their adoption of Ku Klux Klan tactics to "Backlash" against all evidence of "success" in racial integration (anti-Obama behavior, for example). The devastation to our K-12 public schools (for children of all colors), that has occurred over the past several decades is obvious to all who would see it.
Today, (more than 480 blogs later), we've seen the re-election of the first black President, who, yesterday, spoke at an innovative K-12 Charter School in Brooklyn, a Borough of New York City. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/obama-heads-brooklyn-tour-p-tech-school-article-1.1496651?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nydnrss%2Fgossip%2Frush_molloy+(Gossip%2FRush+%26+Molloy). President Obama cited P-Tech as a model for solving many of the nation's problems associated with educating K-12 minority children. The "product" of P-Tech is a 2-yr Associate Degree in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) for children who are not fortunate enough to be born to parents who can provide 4-yr college educations. The education provided would be of high-enough quality to provide graduates "guaranteed" jobs from the nation's leading manufacturers; and would be FREE!
Sounds miraculous! All of this for poor, non-white (especially included are black kids) children?
This will surely piss-off the White Supremacists who have fought bitterly for decades to ensure that all white children would keep their prior advantages for access to quality education and to jobs. Over the intervening decades, the quality of education, and jobs, have both disappeared (for poor and middle class children of all colors); in spite of the best efforts of the Klan-driven Republicans. Their frustration has grown to a point where they just-barely missed pushing our nation to Debt Default for the first time in its history. They have clearly demonstrated the ability and the willingness to destroy this country to get their way (which is to put the non-whites back into their historic "place" in our socio-economics). They have effectively "nullified" the results of the 2012 election.
Impoverished and segregated African-Americans thrived in my youth because we were able to use "community" to overcome the destructive effects of poverty. The community realized that successfully educated children resulted from three "legs": home, community, and classroom teaching. The bond between all three was unshakeable.
Ronnie Reagan gained his popularity among whites in this country by removing all vestiges of "community" from all aspects of business and government throughout our nation.
Today there are efforts among Hispanics in California, and, it appears, at P-Tech, to restore at least those family ties that were broken so deliberately so many years ago.
Stay Vigilant! If this nation is to survive, White Supremacy must be defeated in 2014!
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