By Order of the President: 'Equal Opportunity for All' to be replaced by 'Equal OUTCOMES ... for Some'

 

This Executive Order has got to be the most racist Nanny-state document ever to come out of this White House. Obama's BigGubmint now intends to not only "support" but "ensure" - and yes, even "deliver" ... not equal opportunity for all, but equal educational outcomes for some (said delivery will be based on skin color). 

 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America,

to restore the country to its role as the global leader in education, to strengthen the Nation by improving educational outcomes for African Americans of all ages, and to help ensure that all African Americans receive an education that properly prepares them for college, productive careers, and satisfying lives,

it is hereby ordered as follows...

.... Significantly improving the educational outcomes of African Americans will provide substantial benefits for our country... Enhanced educational outcomes lead to more productive careers, improved economic opportunity, and greater social well-being for all Americans.... 

... we must provide the support that will enable African American students to improve their level of educational achievement...

....The Initiative will help to restore the United States to its role as the global leader in education; strengthen the Nation by improving educational outcomes for African Americans of all ages....

The Initiative will complement and reinforce the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Initiative established by Executive Order 13532 of February 26, 2010, and together, they both will support enhanced outcomes for African Americans at every level...

.... To help expand educational opportunities, improve educational outcomes, and deliver a complete and competitive education for all African Americans...

etc. etc. etc.

 

Neil Munro at the Daily Caller explains one objective in particular:

President Barack Obama is backing a controversial campaign by progressives to regulate schools’ disciplinary actions so that members of major racial and ethnic groups are penalized at equal rates, regardless of individuals’ behavior.

His July 26 executive order established a government panel to promote “a positive school climate that does not rely on methods that result in disparate use of disciplinary tools.”

“African Americans lack equal access to highly effective teachers and principals, safe schools, and challenging college-preparatory classes, and they disproportionately experience school discipline,” said the order, titled “White House Initiative On Educational Excellence.”

Because of those causes, the report suggests, “over a third of African American students do not graduate from high school on time with a regular high school diploma, and only four percent of African American high school graduates interested in college are college-ready across a range of subjects.”

“What this means is that whites and Asians will get suspended for things that blacks don’t get suspended for,” because school officials will try to level punishments despite groups’ different infraction rates, predicted Hans Bader, a counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Bader is a former official in the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, and has sued and represented school districts and colleges in civil-rights cases.

“It is too bad that the president has chosen to set up a new bureaucracy with a focus on one particular racial group, to the exclusion of all others,” said Roger Clegg, the president of the Center for Equal Opportunity.

“A disproportionate share of crimes are committed by African Americans, and they are disproportionately likely to misbehave in school… [because] more than 7 out of 10 African Americans (72.5 percent) are born out of wedlock… versus fewer than 3 out of 10 whites,” he said in a statement to The Daily Caller. Although ” you won’t see it mentioned in the Executive Order… there is an obvious connection between these [marriage] numbers and how each group is doing educationally, economically, criminally,” he said.

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Of all the sad stories in present-day America, none is sadder than the collapse and crumbling of the American black community -- a collapse and crumbling that has been aided and abetted by the community's own leadership -- a leadership so craven that it will not tell its people what they must hear: that their salvation is in -- and only in -- their own hands. Nothing can save America's blacks except a return to the traditional family. Which means, of course, that nothing can save America's blacks until American black leadership stops lying and begins telling the truth. I am not holding my breath.