Just filling in some background...on Ayers...and raising the question as to why Ayers would choose someone to manage his cherished Annenberg Project who differed much from his views...!!!!!
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He blasts our "authoritarian society," standardized tests, the idea that the schools should be evaluated under market standards with producers being pressured to satisfy consumers, charter schools and school voucher programs.
Ayers, in unabashed solidarity with fellow socialists, communists and leftists, also offers a spirited defense of Ward Churchill:
Ward Churchill is a great example because what I think people, leftists are continually doing with the Ward Churchill case is missing this larger context ... and instead kind of parsing, “Well, what did he say and do I agree with it.” What the hell do I care? First of all, there was a thorough study done by a university committee that never should have been set up, and they found a few, a tiny, a handful of instances where he might have borrowed a phrase, but nothing like Doris Kearns-Goodwin ... did, nothing like, you know, the big academics at Harvard have done, like Dershowitz[.] And yet somehow he’s held to the standard. And then people on the left again feel like they have to say, well this is part of what Ward says I don’t agree with. What has that got to do with it? He’s being pilloried for his politics, for being a leftist, for being a critic of U.S. imperialism as it relates to Native Americans. How can we as socialists or as communists or as leftists, how can we leave him in the cold and say, well I’m a good leftist because I don’t talk the way Ward talks. I find that appalling. And I would hope that when they come to get Ward, we all link arms and don’t allow it.
Ayers ends by detecting what he takes to be this streak of cowardice in many Democrats and in the letter he received from his colleagues:
It’s not only cowardly, it’s cynical. But it’s suicidal. And by cynical what I mean is that you don’t trust people and so you kind of try to parse out your own little place to have your career as a lefty. And that just makes me sad when it doesn’t make me sick. You have to believe that if you speak the truth, if you speak up and speak the truth as you understand it ... that people can get it. So the cowardliness of not speaking out—we see this in the Democratic Party all the time. Why won’t they speak out against the war? They know better, some of them. But they won’t. And partly because they’re bought into the same system. But even those who know better won’t do it, and the reason is they don’t trust people. And we as revolutionaries have to say that at the end of the day, people will be smart enough, good enough, strong enough to stand up. But why should they do it if we don’t have the courage to do it? And the letter I got was a cowardly letter. Its cynical, it’s cowardly, and it’s slippery.
Again, this is from only two years ago. Ayers does not try to hide who he is or where he is coming from. He is a proud leftist revolutionary. His driving idea, in this phase of his career, is that the classroom is the frontline of the revolution. And when he was given the opportunity of a lifetime, a $150 million fund to be doled out as seed money for the kind of programs he thought would advance the cause, the guy brought in to run it was Barack Obama — with whom he worked closely on "change" in the schools for five years.
Thank you, Ernest_at_the_Beach.
Ping. Hot article.
Check out #3 and #7, too.
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Thanks to WestCoastGal for pinging me to this earlier article with some damning comments, not that it will gain traction in the MSM; check out comments #25, #33, #34, #58.
Guilty! “Obama Sued Citibank to Force it to Make Bad Loans”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101106/posts
[Bill Ayers On How To Educate Good Little Progressive Commies]
Lol, I just posted that on my newspaper forum today.
Thanks for the ping.