Racism lies at heart of school vouchers
I am posting this to ad to the conversation started by this article:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/41480_Creationism_Spreading_in_Schools_Thanks_to_Vouchers/comments/#ctop
Creationism Spreading in Schools, Thanks to Vouchers
Religious anti-education getting more public funding
To me this is more evidence that the right wing/GOP/Republicans are stuck in the 1970s fighting the same old issues you saw on “Archie Bunker” be it women’s issues, gays or race. It is as if the GOP has been trying all they can to reverse those issues they lost out on in the Nixon era.
The reason I wanted to post this article is that a right winger on here mentioned “bussing” in the above thread. Bussing…as if that is still a hot button issue and this is 1974 again. But it shows they never got over this program and that resentment against it (and other culture war losses) has simmered on into the 21st century.
Racism lies at heart of school vouchers
http://badgerherald.com/oped/2005/02/24/racism_lies_at_heart.php
School vouchers may be the most disingenuous and hypocritical program produced by America’s right-wing ideologues since their attempts to portray Martin Luther King, Jr., as an opponent of affirmative action (Read King’s discussion of compensatory treatment in ‘Why We Can’t Wait’ in 1964 for his defense of what wasn’t yet being called affirmative action). Vouchers for private schools divert funds from public education, subsidize unaccountable private — and often religious — schools and uphold racial segregation.