Glad to know she didn't let a woman possibly being beaten interfere with a "big ass bowl of cereal" and a Disney movie.
Showing posts with label Wake Schools - Diversity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wake Schools - Diversity. Show all posts
Thursday, December 30, 2021
Saturday, June 12, 2021
"HEALTHY"
This past week saw a robust discussion of the word "healthy" in Wake County. The topic this week concerned affordable housing placement. But the discussion among local progressives concerning the word "healthy" certainly opened our eyes.
As background, Raleigh City Councillor Patrick Buffkin spoke about the building and location of affordable housing:
"Another benefit of having mixed incomes in these developments is you build a more healthy community," Buffkin said towards the end of the meeting. "What Mayor Schewel said when he talked to us was, 'Don't build projects that house only poor people.' These are places that are devoid of hope. There are very few role models for the children that live there and a much better way for the community is to have this mix of incomes, people from different backgrounds, people from different means helping each other to learn how to live together."
The IndyWeek provides a good synopsis which we would encourage you to read.
Councillor Buffkin's comments provoked a flurry of rebuttals.
Raleigh Planning Commission Member Nicole Bennett stated:
"I need to take a brief break from my celebration to address an issue that came up at yesterday's City Council work session, where a councilmember stated that poor communities are devoid of hope and lack good role models. I sent a letter to our esteemed Mayor and Councilmembers and I'm reposting it here.
Good afternoon, Mayor Baldwin and Members of the Raleigh City Council:
First, thank you for the honor of serving the citizens of Raleigh as a member of the Planning Commission. It is one of the highlights of my career and my 25+ years as a resident of the Raleigh community. I write to you today, not as a Planning Commissioner, but as a Raleigh resident. Yesterday (June 8th) at your Council work session, there was a discussion about mixed income housing. Councilmember Buffkin made comments about the need to mix income to cover operating costs of housing and in that same statement, he said “another benefit of having mixed incomes….is you build a more healthy community….Don’t build projects that house only poor people. These are places that are devoid of hope. There are very few role models for the children….”
These statements are not only offensive and hurtful, they perpetuate the narrative that poor people lack morals and values. That is simply not true. Poor people lack financial resources. Period. As an urban planner, I am well aware of problems associated with concentrating low-income persons in developments, and I am well aware of issues associated with some of the old-style public housing developments (or “projects”). The problem is not the people. The problem is the environment. The problem, oftentimes, is the people who live in these communities are cast aside and forgotten about. The developments weren’t built to encourage community. They were built to cage human beings who were deemed savages and undeserving by policies designed to marginalize poor people, especially poor people of color. When people respond to the environments in which they have been thrust into, we then call them poor role models and claim we fear for our safety when they try to move themselves up and into “better” neighborhoods. These “projects” have a myriad of problems, the least of which is the people. There is poor access to transit, poor access to healthcare and other services necessary for their well-being, poor access to parks, open space and recreational activities. These areas often lack healthy food and adequate infrastructure. Schools are under-resourced. Predatory business abound. Police substations abound, again, treating the symptom and not the cause. My point is the issues are deep and complex, and, yes, sometimes there are bad people in poor neighborhoods (just as there are bad people in wealthy neighborhoods), but the environment in which they live, the layout of many of these developments, and the areas in which they are located often create unhealthy behaviors. The people didn’t create the environment by being bad role models. Racist policies like redlining and urban renewal created the environments. Policies designed to hide the poor created the environment. It is concerning and hurtful to hear a Councilor disparage hard working, poor people - many who are in the position they’re in because of a system that’s rigged against them. To imply that simply adding people with higher incomes will somehow help their moral character is offensive and reinforces many of the racist undertones upon which many of our policies, programs, and procedures are centered.
To give you a bit of my perspective….I grew up in Bertie County, North Carolina. It is one of the poorest counties in the state. It is a majority minority county and I lived in an area that, while not a dense “project”, was definitely a concentration of lower income people. People didn’t have a lot of material wealth but we had community. People worked hard and looked out for each other. Grandparents and aunties and cousins provided daycare. People bought 15-passenger vans and started their own informal vanpools as residents sought economic opportunities in neighboring counties and even Virginia. Some of the people who have had the most positive impact on my life had very little money in the bank. Many lived in substandard housing with no luxuries like central air and heat or even indoor plumbing. But you know what those people taught me? The value of hard work. The necessity of faith. The beauty of community. The steadfastness of resiliency. These “poor people” weren’t poor at all. They lacked financial resources but they were some of the richest people I’ve ever known. They walked with their heads held high. They refused to let a system who told them they were nobody take away their dignity. They pushed me. They sacrificed for me. They encouraged me to fight for people like them.
So I speak for them today, whether as a Planning Commissioner or a citizen of this great city. I carry them with me and I say ALL people have dignity regardless of their balance sheet. ALL people have dignity regardless of their zip code or census tract demographics. All people have dignity whether they live in a subdivision or a “project”. People are certainly accountable for their actions but stereotypes hurt and don’t offer constructive solutions to very real problems. Stereotypes can get down on the inside of young people and influence what they tell themselves. We can build people up or we can tear them down. I appreciate the desire to improve the lives of low-income people but we won’t do it by ostracizing, stigmatizing, and dehumanizing them. I would encourage you to ENGAGE them, get to know them, review your zoning policies, comprehensive plans and development ordinances and look for ways to spread the wealth among ALL of Raleigh’s citizens. Incentivize developers to build truly affordable housing. Help build ladders of economic opportunity for low-income persons. There are a lot of wonderful role models with limited incomes and there are some pretty terrible ones with millions. Let’s attack the policies and not the people.
Thank you for your service to the citizens of Raleigh.
Respectfully submitted,
Nicole H. Bennett"
The word "healthy" and its discussion in Wake County politics is not new. In fact the progressive/caring about poor black people/groups have used it exhaustively. They've used it the same way Councillor Buffkin has, but for another topic - Wake County's public schools.
We could post these endlessly as the left has spent seven figure levels on this issue in Wake County. The left has pushed segregated magnet schools to keep downtown Raleigh communities more amenable to gentrification. They've made the argument, using segregation as a ruse, that schools must have a proper mix of rich and poor - otherwise these schools aren't "healthy."
We'll close with Nicole Bennett's statement:
"To imply that simply adding people with higher incomes will somehow help their moral character is offensive and reinforces many of the racist undertones upon which many of our policies, programs, and procedures are centered," Bennett wrote."
The left has currently decided to attack Councillor Buffkin for saying the same thing they've said for years.
Please make up your minds.
Saturday, October 17, 2020
BILL "THE HYPOCRITE" FLETCHER SUPPORTS BUSING YOUR CHILDREN ALL OVER WAKE COUNTY
Here is Bill Fletcher with leftist Great Schools in Wake agitprops protesting neighborhood schools.
Sunday, February 2, 2020
WHO DOES BUSING IMPACT?
As the WakeUp Wake County School System begins to implement comprehensive policies on diversity, let's remember who gets impacted the most. The people they claim to help get hurt the most.
N&O, 10-3-09
Sunday, July 21, 2019
SEND JOHN TEDESCO BACK
Last week's events harkened us back a few years - about nine years to be exact.
The local progressive community has been in an uproar over chants made at a Trump rally - "Send her back." They labeled it as racist, etc.
Fine, we'll take the bait.
News & Observer - October 9, 2010
NorthJersey.com - July 21, 2010
The comments were most notably directed at John Tedesco, but also directed to Ron Margiotta, Chris Malone, etc. The left wildly cheered these comments. The xenophobia was unbridled. Nobody complained.
And now this from Rev. William "John 2:16" Barber last week:
and this one from Jim Goodmon/WRAL:
They sure didn't have a problem with the chants about "love it or leave it" in 2010.
Hypocritical xenophobes.
The local progressive community has been in an uproar over chants made at a Trump rally - "Send her back." They labeled it as racist, etc.
Fine, we'll take the bait.
News & Observer - October 9, 2010
NorthJersey.com - July 21, 2010
The comments were most notably directed at John Tedesco, but also directed to Ron Margiotta, Chris Malone, etc. The left wildly cheered these comments. The xenophobia was unbridled. Nobody complained.
And now this from Rev. William "John 2:16" Barber last week:
and this one from Jim Goodmon/WRAL:
They sure didn't have a problem with the chants about "love it or leave it" in 2010.
Hypocritical xenophobes.
Monday, January 21, 2019
WAKE SCHOOLS: IDEOLOGICAL BIGOTRY
Over the last few months it's been interesting to see several news headlines appear.
Let's run through them:
"Suspensions have a very poor efficacy rate," Wake County Public Schools System board member Dr. Jim Martin said. "If suspensions worked, you would not see repeat suspensions...We want discipline that maximizes learning that changes behavior."
ABC News 11 - 11-13-18
And:
N&O - 11-23-18
And:
Fair Enough. If something doesn't work, don't do it. But that's not the driving reason here. It's just that the concept of police officers and school suspensions doesn't meet with the ideological bent of the Wake County School System.
Case in point? A recent article about busing for diversity:
Let's run through them:
“Discipline is a challenging issue for every school system in this country,” school board vice chairman Jim Martin said in an interview after Tuesday’s policy committee meeting. “Doing it the way we’ve always done it ‘ain’t working.’
"Suspensions have a very poor efficacy rate," Wake County Public Schools System board member Dr. Jim Martin said. "If suspensions worked, you would not see repeat suspensions...We want discipline that maximizes learning that changes behavior."
ABC News 11 - 11-13-18
And:
And:
Fair Enough. If something doesn't work, don't do it. But that's not the driving reason here. It's just that the concept of police officers and school suspensions doesn't meet with the ideological bent of the Wake County School System.
Case in point? A recent article about busing for diversity:
"Now some are suggesting a way to reduce school closings because of inclement weather: break up the system. With smaller districts, they say, students would be closer to their schools and transportation decisions would be based on local road conditions, rather than conditions on the other side of the county.
But all that said, smaller is not better for the Wake school system. It’s big to serve a big idea — public schools should be integrated."
Shall we talk about diverse schools? No evidence it improves academic performance whatsoever. It sure sounds galant however. And it sure does serve as the ideological backbone of the Wake County Board of Education.
Never studied after all these years by the WCPSS and no plans to do so. Ideological bigotry at its finest.
Friday, November 2, 2018
JOHN ADCOCK: SPOT ON WITH STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS
We knew this was coming. The Wake County progressive community would come after John Adcock for campaigning on student assignments.
Here's what WakeUp Wake County and the left have said today:
Sydney Batch, Adcock's opponent, had this to say:
“School reassignment is the responsibility of the Wake County school board, not the state legislature,” Batch, a Democrat and attorney from Holly Springs, said in a statement. “It is disappointing that John Adcock either doesn’t know that or, worse, he is willfully misleading his constituents about what he can do as a state representative.
- News & Observer, 11-1-18
And Kris Nordstrom, a lackey at the NC Justice Center, played the race card:
Nordstrom said the Republican-led legislature has also shown its willingness to step on local governments when it disagrees with their actions.
“They can use state power to maintain segregated schools for their rich white constituencies,” Nordstrom said.
- News & Observer, 11-1-18
Sydney Batch would not say publicly what all her allies on the left are saying regarding their support of a failed socio-economic diversity program in Wake County that treated black children as pawns. But don't let her silence fool you.
But let's take their bait on criticizing Adcock on injecting a local issue into a state legislative race.
Frankly, as a former employee at the NC General Assembly, we're surprised at Nordstrom's ignorance of legislative matters. Part of a legislator's duties is not only supporting good legislation, but also stopping bad legislation.
And what would he have to stop? Perhaps this effort by Sydney Batch and Wake County Democrats.
Yes, Wake County Democrats want to amend state law to:
"Adock opposes needless mandatory student reassignments that disrupt local families."
Here's what WakeUp Wake County and the left have said today:
“School reassignment is the responsibility of the Wake County school board, not the state legislature,” Batch, a Democrat and attorney from Holly Springs, said in a statement. “It is disappointing that John Adcock either doesn’t know that or, worse, he is willfully misleading his constituents about what he can do as a state representative.
- News & Observer, 11-1-18
And Kris Nordstrom, a lackey at the NC Justice Center, played the race card:
Nordstrom said the Republican-led legislature has also shown its willingness to step on local governments when it disagrees with their actions.
“They can use state power to maintain segregated schools for their rich white constituencies,” Nordstrom said.
- News & Observer, 11-1-18
Sydney Batch would not say publicly what all her allies on the left are saying regarding their support of a failed socio-economic diversity program in Wake County that treated black children as pawns. But don't let her silence fool you.
But let's take their bait on criticizing Adcock on injecting a local issue into a state legislative race.
Frankly, as a former employee at the NC General Assembly, we're surprised at Nordstrom's ignorance of legislative matters. Part of a legislator's duties is not only supporting good legislation, but also stopping bad legislation.
And what would he have to stop? Perhaps this effort by Sydney Batch and Wake County Democrats.
Yes, Wake County Democrats want to amend state law to:
"Mandate economic and racial diversity in public schools"
"Provide for the removal of school board members if they have violated state law."
"Allow for recall elections for school board members"
John Adcock would likely call this "needless mandatory student reassignments." And the constituents in his district would very much agree with him.
Want to know why this is a legislative issue that John Adcock would campaign on?
Ask the Wake County Democratic Party. They're the ones who made it one in the first place.
Saturday, September 22, 2018
SUSAN EVANS: RACIAL QUOTAS FOR STUDENT ASSIGNMENT
You won't hear Susan Evans talk about this anymore as it hits the political "third rail" in Wake County. Don't doubt for a second it's out of her heart though. She will carry forward this agenda if elected to the Wake County Board of Commissioners:
WRAL - June 7, 2011
WRAL - June 7, 2011
Friday, August 10, 2018
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