{"id":5247,"date":"2014-02-08T01:12:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T06:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2014-02-08T01:19:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T06:19:03","slug":"dems-dont-offer-blacks-enough-support-but-gop-is-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/dems-dont-offer-blacks-enough-support-but-gop-is-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems don’t offer Blacks enough support but GOP is worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friend Bryan Alexander<\/a> reminded me tonight that Dems take the Black vote entirely for granted<\/a>. He’s so right. This is probably one of the big reasons that communities of color aren’t getting the help they expected with fighting public school takeovers by charters (Philly<\/a>) … schools being just closed down (Chicago (where 49 schools were closed in one day – by Dem mayor Rahm Emmanuel)<\/a> and Newark<\/a>) and why Dems supported the devious Governor Christie’s<\/a> 2013 re-election bid instead of getting behind Democratic Party candidate Barbara Buono<\/a> \u2013 a progressive with a long, strong record of promoting excellence in public education, and transparency and accountability in the realm of public service and politics.<\/p>\n

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Sir Ken Robinson is the best-known global authority on the benefit of creative and supportive education<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s about developing the people of the future, though!<\/h3>\n

TED speaker Sir Ken Robinson<\/a> understands and reveals the importance of developing native creative thinking and enthusiasm in school children. Other positive voices are beginning to make themselves heard …<\/p>\n

Hat tip to Bill De Blasio who recently emerged onto the NYC charter take-over scene this year as a notable and refreshing champion of public education. God bless him. Days after informing the charter industry that New York was cutting their funding by a couple hundred million, Mayor De Blasio gave them more bad news: he’s denying charters free space in NY public school buildings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BTW, the Republicans are way worse<\/h3>\n

As imperfect as the Democratic Party is, the Republican party is worse for people of color<\/a>. Daily Kos writer futurebird wrote in 2008,<\/p>\n

The reason that many black people are democrats has nothing to do with social welfare programs. It’s about respect. Being a republican would mean being a member of a party that has not done enough to purge itself of racists– a party that has held black voters in contempt and characterized us as a legion of welfare moms who steal tax dollars from “real hard working Americans.” No self-respecting person would put up with that. This is why even wealthy black people remain democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n