Posted on 07/31/2012 1:20:59 PM PDT by Old Sarge
I noticed this one from a few days ago. The full text is available of course at the link, but here's a few highlights I got from a scan of the verbiage:
Section 2a: There is hereby established the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans (The Initiative), to be housed in the Department of Education (The Department). There shall be an Executive Director of the Initiative, to be appointed by the Secretary of Education (The Secretary). The Initiative shall be supported by the Interagency Working Group established under subsection (c) of this section and advised by the Commission established under section 3 of this order.
So now we have a new Black Education Czar, supposedly under the auspices of the Dept. of Education. BUT, as we see buried in Section 2b(4)(iv), we learn that the new Czar will:
work closely with the Executive Office of the President on key Administration priorities related to the education of African Americans;
So the Czar will have access to the Preezy outside the Department's channels.
Moving on, we see Section 2c:
(1) There is established the Federal Interagency Working Group on Educational Excellence for African Americans (Working Group), which shall be convened and chaired by the Initiative's Executive Director and that shall support the efforts of the Initiative described in subsection (b) of this section.
(2) The Working Group shall consist of senior officials from the Department, the White House Domestic Policy Council, the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and such additional agencies and offices as the President may subsequently designate. Senior officials shall be designated by the heads of their respective agencies and offices.
Lots of tentacles there, aren't there? The Black Education Czar will have access to at least five Cabinet-level offices, just to start off. Lots of revenue sources from which to siphon.
Like the late-night infomercials say, BUT THAT'S NOT ALL, LOOK AT WHAT ELSE YOU GET! Section 3 of the EO does this:
(a) Establishment. There is established in the Department the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans (Commission).
(b) Commission Mission and Scope. The Commission shall advise the President and the Secretary on matters pertaining to the educational attainment of the African American community, including:
(3) efforts to engage the philanthropic, business, nonprofit, and education communities in a national dialogue on the mission and objectives of this order; and
(4) the establishment of partnerships with public, private, philanthropic, and nonprofit stakeholders to meet the mission and policy objectives of this order.
Okay, now we see that the new Czar will "engage" and otherwise "establish partnerships" with private business and nonprofits to meet their "policy objectives". That means basically, shaking them down for revenue, and the usual threats/intimidation by the race hustlers to "willingly" promote the agenda or face reprisals.
In Section 3c, we see that the Czar will be the head of this commission, that the Preezy will appoint all its members, and they may be drawn by him personally from
"a variety of sectors, including the education sector, labor organizations, research institutions, the military, corporate and financial institutions, public and private philanthropic organizations, and nonprofit and community-based organizations at the national, State, regional, or local levels."
So, we can see what the new Black Czar will be doing. The czar will not only be involved in just social engineering, but wealth transfer from other departments, appropriations that don't get voted on by Congress, and Federal jobs access for labor unions and ACORN activists who otherwise would be locked out of the system.
What an awful idea. How distasteful to once again divide Americans based on race. It's so goddamn socialist. And it's demeaning to blacks as well. It just reeks of political and practical shortsightedness.
What a freakin' idiot this clown of a President is...
Hey! Simmer down, will ya? Every time some gay guy from Kenya is elected President, you just seem to go nuts!
Hey! Simmer down, will ya? Every time some gay guy from Kenya is elected President, you just seem to go nuts!
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