If anyone still thinks the Tea Party Movement is really a grassroots effort, read this…
It’s all about providing cover for Big money Conservatives trying to influence politics and society to roll back the clock to a whiter, less diverse world…
We have to interact with as broad a range of people as possible if we are ever to truly understand each other, identify and build on our commonalities and lose the fear of those who may be different from us. Of course, that’s not what these guys want….
And there is also the importance of building an education system that allows everyone a chance to learn and succeed- not just the white and the wealthy…
From ThinkProgress.org…
Today in the Washington Post, reporter Stephanie McCrummen detailed how a right-wing campaign in the Wake County area of North Carolina has taken over the school board with a pledge to end a very successful socio-economic integration plan. The integration plan, which created thriving schools in poor African-American parts of the school district along with achieving diversity in schools located in wealthy white enclaves, was a model for the nation. However, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the Tea Party group founded and funded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, worked with local right-wing financier (and AFP board member) Art Pope to fundamentally change Wake County’s school board:
Lost in the 21st Century 