President Barack Obama recently wrote an executive order that established a White House initiative on educational excellence for black Americans that will be housed in the Department of Education. It proposes "to identify evidence-based best practices" to improve black achievement in school and college. Though black education is in desperate straits, the president's executive order will accomplish absolutely nothing to improve black education. The reason is that it does not address the root causes of educational rot among black Americans. It's not rocket science; let's look at it.
The president's initiative contains not one word about rampant inner-city school violence, which makes educational excellence impossible. During the past five years, Philadelphia's 268 schools had 30,000 serious criminal incidents, including assaults – 4,000 of which were on teachers – robberies and rapes. Prior to recent layoffs, Philadelphia's school district employed about 500 police officers. In Chicago last year, 700 young people were gunfire victims, and dozens of them lost their lives. Similar stories of street and school violence can be told in other large, predominantly black cities, such as Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, Oakland and Newark.
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And an executive order for blacks is not discrimination? Where is the out cry from liberals on this one. Like his "Black Americans for Obama" campaign. He may just be the biggest racist ever elected.
Maybe racist? He is racist just clever in his speeches is all.....sooner or later the hopey, feely is gone to backfire on him. Let's face it, in order to get votes, he has to buy them any way he can. How better than with young minds that have no experience or exposure in the real world. He gives them free education on our dime, hence they vote for him. The man has no substance, no ethics, no morales.
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