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JUNE 1, 2022

STACEY, WE HARDLY KNOW YE – OVERNIGHT:   You all know Stacey Abrams.  Stacey is running this year to be governor of Georgia.  Now, she's tried this before, and lost by 50,000 votes.  She then claimed that the election is stolen by voter suppression and that she'd actually won.  Many believed her.  They called her "Governor."  She believed it. 

Now Stacey is running again.  She assumes she will win because the people of Georgia, in their guilt, will make up for the past sin that denied Stacey her destiny.  And it is well understood – you agree, don't you – that the governorship will be a mere steppingstone to the White House, which is Stacey's true place in history.  I mean, does anyone dissent?

Of course, like any mortal, Stacey has a few problems.  First, she's never done much.  Okay, we can ignore that just to bask in her glow.  But second, she has these views on things.  I'm sure it's all a misunderstanding.  See what you think.  From Fox: 

Stacey Abrams serves as a board member of a UPS family foundation that awards millions of dollars to professors and scholars who advocate anti-capitalist and prison abolitionist views, Fox News Digital has learned.

Abrams, who is taking another shot at running for Georgia governor, is currently listed as a board member at the Seattle-based Marguerite Casey Foundation, a private grant-making foundation named after Marguerite Casey, the sister of UPS founder Jim Casey.

The far-left foundation has repeatedly voiced support for defunding and abolishing the police.

Abrams, who has tried to distance herself from the hardline rhetoric of the #DefundThePolice movement in the past, has received at least $52,500 in income from the foundation, according to her financial disclosures.

Abrams's campaign told Fox News Digital last week that Abrams, who joined the foundation's board in May 2021, does not hold the same views as the foundation.

So why is she on the board?  I know.  She likes the way UPS delivers packages.

In December, the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation announced the recipients of the 2021 Freedom Scholars Awards, which gave $250,000 to each of six professors who are "leading research in critical fields including abolitionist, Black, feminist, queer, radical, and anti-colonialist studies."

The $1.5 million annual award, established in 2020, "counters the limited financial resources and research constraints frequently faced by scholars whose work supports social movements," the foundation said.

One of the professors who received an award was Robin D. G. Kelley, who teaches African American history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and has argued that capitalism is inherently racist.

In a February NPR segment, Kelley said, "The secret to capitalism's survival is racism."
"So any true liberation has to be anti-capitalist," he said. "There's no way capitalism can save us. And even if you could create a capitalism that's somehow non-racial, which of course, is impossible - but let's say in theory you can do that. We still have deep exploitation and inequality produced by it."

During the same NPR interview, Kelley said his "goal" growing up was to be a "communist for life."

"I was involved in a study group organized by the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, AAPRP, and we'd study Walter Rodney, Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James, Angela Davis, I mean, Kwame Nkrumah. So this was outside the classroom. This is where I got the real education," Kelley said.

"I wanted to be a communist for life. I wanted to make revolution," he continued. "And it's like, of course, you've got to be a historian to be a real good communist, not the other way around."

During another segment of the NPR interview titled, "There are no utopias," Kelley argued that a truly communist country has never existed throughout history.

"I'm the first to say that what we think of as state socialism or communism has been a disaster," he said. "I'm the last one to defend what actually becomes, in the case of Soviet Union, for example, not socialism at all, but state capitalism that's redistributive. That's what the Soviet Union became. And China's the same thing. China did amazing things in terms of being able to raise the basic standard of living. But China is a state capitalist neoliberal society. We don't have a communist country anywhere in the world. We've never actually had one. It has never happened."

COMMENT:  Okay, we get the picture.  Our Stacey is on the board of a Red group.  And she got on that board in 2021, a year ago.  This wasn't some college membership left over from her youth.   She wasn't an 18-year-old misguided student when she joined. 

Stacey symbolizes the Democratic Party's greatest problem today.  Its left wing has accepted Marxism without apology.  And it expects us to accept it as well.  The leftists know they'll have much of the press and university faculties behind them.  The fact is that, yes, Stacey Abrams is considered in the front rank of Democratic presidential prospects, having done virtually nothing to justify her nomination.  And now this, serving on the board of a far left organization.

So what will happen?  An election will happen in November.  We hope Stacey Abrams is defeated, and the GOP will do everything to make that happen.  But if she wins, look for a "Stacey 2024" campaign to begin, and the left will move that much closer to the ultimate power.

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MAY 31,  2022

A NATION IN CHAOS – OVERNIGHT:  As we come out of the weekend and look forward to the start of summer, we are reminded each day of the job ahead, starting with the November election.  The forces of wokeness are still fighting, and they often are winning.  A school in Chicago (naturally) symbolizes the madness.  As they say, you cannot make this up.   From Breitbart: 

A high school in a Chicago is implementing a race-based grading system “to adjust classroom grading scales to account for skin color or ethnicity of its students.”

The move is necessary, advocates say, because “traditional grading practices perpetuate inequities,” a slide used in a presentation said.

Students, depending on their race, will not be held accountable for missing class, misbehaving in school, or for failing to turn in assignments.

The West Cook News reported on the development:

Oak Park and River Forest High School (OPRF) administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students.

School board members discussed the plan called “Transformative Education Professional Development & Grading” at a meeting on May 26, presented by Assistant Superintendent for Student Learning Laurie Fiorenza.

[The plan] calls for what OPRF leaders describe as “competency-based grading, eliminating zeros from the grade book…encouraging and rewarding growth over time.”

Teachers are being instructed how to measure student  “growth” while keeping the school leaders’ political ideology in mind.

“Teachers and administrators at OPRFHS will continue the process necessary to make grading improvements that reflect our core beliefs,” the plan, set to begin in the fall of 2023, says.

The article notes that according to the Illinois State Board of Education, 38 percent of sophomores fail the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).

The failure rate was 77 percent for black students, 49 percent for Hispanic students, 27 percent for Asian students, and 25 percent for white students.

Margaret Sullivan, associate director at the Education Advisory Board, which consults colleges and universities, said teachers have to recognize when “personal biases manifest.”

“Teachers may unintentionally let non-academic factors—like student behavior or whether a student showed up to virtual class—interfere with their final evaluation of students,” Sullivan said. 

COMMENT:  No one in a white sheet, and burning a cross, could do the harm to these children that their own educators are doing. This new program will destroy minority kids by eliminating any incentive to excel.  What happens when they try to get a job with the equivalent of eighth-grade skills? 

This program is nothing more than the old racial excuse machine.  And you may be sure it has plenty of support on the political left and within the minority leadership class. 

The modern civil rights movement started in the mid-1950s.  It is now more than 65 years later.  Who has actually gained from the movement other than those at the top?  Don't expect an answer from the mainstream media.

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