Ayers and Obama: Follow the Money (Updated: Nearly $2M to Ayers)
John on October 11, 2008 at 12:51 am
[Note: On 10-10 I added some additional research to this piece so I've bumped it back up top.]
A political whistle blower once told an eager reporter to “follow the money.” That turns out to be pretty good advice. In politics, money and relationships tend to go together. So let’s look at some of the political/financial relationships between Barack Obama and the Ayers family and see if Obama’s claim that he had no significant relationship with Ayers still sounds reasonable.
All told, boards on which Barack Obama sat delivered $1,087,556 to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop.By now everyone knows that Barack Obama and Bill Ayers worked together as part of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, distributing over $100 million dollars to Chicago schools. Obama was picked from relative obscurity by someone to help deliver the funds to eager applicants.
The first wave of grants was issued in 1996. Just 35 awards were made out of over 150 applicants that first year. Among them was $175K [Note the correction here.] $1,056,162 for the Small Schools Workshop, Bill Ayers’ think tank at the University of Chicago. Obama was literally helping to fund Ayers vision. But that’s just the beginning.
The Joyce Foundation was originally the financial nest egg of a widow whose family had made millions in the lumber industry. After her death, the money was taken over by philanthropists who increasingly dedicated their giving to liberal causes including gun control, environmentalism and school reforms.
Barack Obama served on the board of the Joyce Foundation from 1994-2002. A review of the foundations website shows some interesting connections both to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and Bill Ayers in particular:
- 1996
- The Joyce Foundation gave $50K to a group called Leadership for Quality Education run by Bill Ayers’ brother John Ayers. According to this May 1998 issue of Catalyst magazine (a periodical focused on Chicago school refrom) Leadership for Quality Education is “a corporate group that administers the umbrella Small Schools Coalition.” The Small School Coalition website shows John and Bill Ayers are the lead members on the “Policy Committee.” In short, the Ayers brothers were parners in the Small Schools initiatives in Chicago. A donation to LQE, for all intents and purposes, was support for Bill Ayers vision for Chicago schools.
- 1997
- Even as Obama worked with Ayers at CAC, the foundation gives $337,556 to the Small Schools workshop at the University of Chicago.
- An additional $95K to John Ayers’ Leadership for Quality Education “To continue assisting the recruitment, startup, and operation of charter schools in Chicago.”
- 1998
- Another $149K to Leadership for Quality Education “To assist in the recruitment, startup, and operation of charter schools in Chicago; to evaluate the need for a similar approach in the Chicago metropolitan region; and to assist charter school proponents in Cleveland (18 mos.)” [HT: RBO for this one.]
- 1999
- Another $125K to John Ayers’ group Leadership for Quality Education, the stated purpose of which was “To organize, in cooperation with a network of grassroots and reform organizations, a citywide campaign to generate greater participation in Chicago’s local school council elections.”
- An additional $160K grant to the University of Illinois College of Education “To continue providing technical assistance to a network of small schools in Chicago and to continue advocacy and policy work promoting the expansion of the small schools concept within the Chicago Public School system” The link provided goes to the Small Schools Workshop website indicating this money was granted to Bill Ayers’ group.
- 2000
- $365K to the Univ. of Illinois College of Education “To continue developing small schools…” Although it is not mentioned by name in the description, the link included with this grant goes directly to the Small Schools Workshop website. So once again, this money went to Bill Ayers.
- John Ayers’ Leadership for Quality Education gets $187,100
- 2001
- The Foundation gives $600K in grants to found the Chicago Public Education Fund. This is the successor to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Archives for their website are mysteriously unavailable, but both John Ayers and Barack Obama are listed as members of their leadership council.
- 2002
- A $1.5 million, five year grant is given to the Chicago High School Redesign Initiative. The initiative is interested in turning 5 Chicago high schools into “small schools.” The planning grant for this initiative lists both Bill Ayers book and his Small Schools website in its appendices. Coincidentally, Bill Ayers co-edited a book with Patricia Ford, executive director of the Chicago High School Redesign Initiative (the book was published in 1996 and it’s not clear she held that position at the time. She may have taken it on later)
- John Ayers’ Leadership for Quality Education another $75K.
But that’s not all. Obama was also a board member of the Woods Fund from 1999 to 2002. Also serving on the Woods Fund board was Bill Ayers:
- 1999
- A grant of $50K to the Leadership for Quality Education which is described as “a pooled fund to underwrite costs for community and faith-based institutions to conduct outreach for candidate recruitment for Local School Councils and to encourage voter turnout for the elections.” So in this case both Obama and Bill Ayers are directing money toward John Ayers.
- In the same year, Woods also granted $30K (spread over two years) to the Small Schools Coalition, which again was the creation of John Ayers and led by himself and his brother Bill.
- 2001
- A $50K grant to the Small Schools Workshop, headed by you-know-who.
- A $50K grant to the Small Schools Workshop, headed by you-know-who.
All told, boards on which Barack Obama sat delivered $1,968,718 to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop. These same boards granted another $761,100 to John Ayers’ Leadership for Quality Education group (and the SSC), which as I’ve noted already funded the Small Schools umbrella group he ran with Bill Ayers.
Additionally, there’s the $1.5 million to redesign five Chicago high schools along the lines Bill Ayers was promoting (He’s highlighted prominently in the grant writing appendices). All in all that’s a not insignificant contribution to the Ayers family and their causes, certainly enough to rebut claims by the NY Times that the two men merely “crossed paths.” Barack Obama, more than any other individual one could name, funded Bill Ayers’ goals in Chicago.
Of course one might argue that Barack Obama was only one member of both the Joyce Foundation and Woods Fund boards. But clearly, the giving paints a picture of a relationship between Obama and Ayers that goes way beyond “a guy from my neighborhood.” To put it another way, if Barack Obama didn’t know who Bill Ayers was during this period, he was an extremely irresponsible board member.
Finally, it’s worth noting that Bill Ayers the radical and Bill Ayers the reformer were one and the same in the late 90′s. In March of 2000 Catalyst Magazine devoted an entire issue to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The end of their lead article quoted Bill Ayers on the results:
“I think it’s a mixed picture,” says Bill Ayers, an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who worked with Chapman and Anne Hallett to pull together the original grant-writing effort.
Ayers believes Annenberg “played a big role” in fostering smaller, more intimate, less anonymous learning environments. But he says that the goal of making teaching more of a profession “is a goal yet to be realized.”
“I don’t think that’s in very good shape in Chicago right now,” he says.
Still, Ayers believes the Annenberg Challenge was good for Chicago “in the sense that it provoked and deepened our conscientiousness about some very important issues that go to the heart of lasting school improvement.
“Did it work? … It’s like asking, ‘Did American democracy work?’ It’s a work in progress. Did it work? Not yet. Not for a lot of people.”
Update 10/13: Michelle Obama organized a teach-in for her husband and Bill Ayers back in 1997. This is another “crossed path” the NY Times missed. [HT: Hill Buzz]
Word is there may be a bigger story on the connection soon. Did Bill Ayers babysit Barack’s kids? That would put a different spin on things, no?
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I think Obama-worshippers have an image of him in their heads as someone who will bring racial unity to the Force, rather than the guy he actually is (who quite possibly hates white people – listen to his “typical white person” rhetoric about the grandmother who provided for him). Of course, the “Obama” of the liberal imagination is just there to fulfill a psychological need, so any de-bunking of the mythology surrounding him will only serve to re-inforce that mythology to those who need it.
I beginning to think the Obamessiah is one in whom there is much guile. TNR just did a piece on him also:
October 10, 2008 @ 5:01 pmhttp://www.tnr.com/talkback.html?id=5c263e1d-d75d-4af9-a1d7-5cb761500092
“who quite possibly hates white people”
Talk about your heart judgment. Hatred is a volitile emotion that runs in all directions, and racism is sometimes its conduit. This election in particular has brought out the worst in people, and most sadly the church, who in some tortured defense of our nationalistic culture has shown much judgment and little redemption.
In the end we actually reveal who we are more profoundly than the ones we seek to define.
October 11, 2008 @ 3:23 am[...] and Ayers also serve together on the boards of the Joyce Foundation and the Woods Foundation, both of which directed significant funding to ACORN, Wright’s church, [...]
October 11, 2008 @ 4:19 amhttp://judahslion.blogspot.com/2008/10/monster-called-racism-o-ne-of-most.html
October 11, 2008 @ 4:27 amPeople don’t care about Ayers. They wouldn’t even care if Ayers and Hussein Obama shared the same sleeping bag on a camping trip. What they care about is their pocketbooks and how the economy is tanking. Somehow, somewhere, a majority of Americans think that this Chicago politician has the answers. He’s going to pass a tax increase on job producers (like my brother and his business) while we’re in these troubled times, and presto, we’re going to be fine! After all, he looks good on television and gives great speeches. Not since Herbert Hoover has anyone dared to be so stupid and pass a tax increase during horrible economic times. He’ll surrender our position in Iraq, telegraphing our withdrawal date so the enemy can lie back and wait until we leave and then go on the offensive. I could go on and on – the guy is a disaster in an expensive suit. But he will be the next president, confirming to everyone that the dumbing down of America has been completed.
October 11, 2008 @ 9:27 amJim, you should have facts to make a point of factual information. Read Obama’s plan; before you make statements as if they are facts and not your opinion. Jim you have a right to your opinion, but your opinion does not deal with facts.
October 11, 2008 @ 9:36 amG-Hud,
I’ve read Obama’s plans (multiple versions) and I’m pretty sure Jim has it right on this count. Obama will raise taxes dramatically on business and he has been in favor of a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq for over a year now.
October 11, 2008 @ 10:36 amWe’re in for Jimmy Carter II, to be sure. We tried socialism for about 30 years, from Johnson up to Reagan, and reached its nadir in Carter’s presidency.
Rick,
Interesting post. Actually, it wasn’t. Obama’s ancestors weren’t slaves anymore than most of white AmeriKKKa owned slaves. Most of Obama’s black ancestors are still living in Kenya, where his father was from. Also, Obama lived in non-segregated Hawaii for most of his upbringing (in this country), where he went to white schools paid for by his white grandmother(whom he threw under the bus during his speech on race), to later attend mostly-white Harvard.
Actually, the most racism he suffered was at the hands of the Indonesian children with whom he went to madrassa. They beat him up and threw him in a ditch one time. Other times, he would run away or fight. You should buy Obama’s first book and read it, like the author of the TNR piece did.
This part of your post is so bizarre as to be fantasy:
Actually, the journey began when Obama’s father voluntarily boarded that plane from Kenya to come here to study economics to later return and become an African Big Man.
October 11, 2008 @ 11:01 amThe point is not about Obama, it was about the integration of the black race as a whole. You represent a myopic view that fails to appreciate the greater historical narrative.
October 11, 2008 @ 12:46 pmRick,
I think Obama has a good story in many ways. It doesn’t change the fact that he’s basically coasting on that and the ability to articulate position papers (plus a position he took in one speech on the Iraq war in 2002). The guy has no accomplishments at the national level and not much at the state level. I would prefer if the first black President were actually someone all of us could agree was qualified based on his service to the country. Maybe in 10 year Obama could be that guy. But not now.
Maybe his election (which looks increasingly likely) says something good about America. I don’t think it says much good about the Americans voting for nebulous, meaningless “change.”
October 11, 2008 @ 1:41 pmWell, I went to the “Apple Scrapple Festival” in little Bridgeville, Delaware today (you’d have to be from around here to understand). Anyway, I’m more convinced than ever that Obama will be our next president. I saw a whole lot of otherwise rational looking people wearing “Obama-Biden” pins and carrying the campaign yard signs. Sigh.
Fasten your seatbelts, boys. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.
October 11, 2008 @ 3:39 pm“Fasten your seatbelts, boys. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.”
As opposed the smooth ride of the past 8 years. :roll:
October 11, 2008 @ 5:45 pmRick – I’m not saying the last 8 years haven’t been bumpy. I’m saying that with the most liberal left-wing senator as president and large majorities of Democrats in both houses of congress, the children will truly and surely be in charge of this roller-coaster. I just keep saying to myself, “The Lord is in control…the Lord is in control…the Lord is in control”.
October 12, 2008 @ 4:46 amOne of the most, if not THE most, obscene aspects of a presidential election is the amount of money that is spent. The enire process is covered as a strategic sporting event and the expensive ads are deftly crafted to manipulate with half truths and emotional touch points. The debates are dissected and parsed and given style points as to who was “the winner”.
The American voter is driven by style, manipulation, lies, and most of all his own personal pocketbook. If every American was continuing to enjoy bountiful prosperity they would elect the Republican candidate, even if it was the devil himself.
Money drives everything, including the church.
October 12, 2008 @ 6:06 amI will offer this observation. Over the past 8 years we have witnessed and enjoyed the class, sincerity, motherhood, and overall leadership of one of the great first ladies of my lifetime. Laura Bush is what should define the balanced role of a first lady, she has been a blessing.
October 12, 2008 @ 6:24 amIf you’re looking for a black that is eminently more qualified than the Messiah to be president, look no further than Alan Keyes. I’m voting for him. He doesn’t play the race card and his positions are solid.
One other thing, I agree with Geraldine F. that if Obama where white, he’d wouldn’t be in this race. He would have been bounced a long time ago. In fact, had Hillary found out about Rev. Wright before Iowa, Obama would be back in the Senate pursuing what he does best -piling up a meaningless and pathetic record of accomplishments.
One other, other thing – LOL. The Messiah should have a filibuster proof Senate and nut-job Pelosi at his disposal. If you thought Bush was bad, wait till you get a whiff of these clowns. The Socialist Republic of America will never be the same.
October 12, 2008 @ 9:12 amRick:
Guilt by association works if the associations are consistent and persistent. Obama’s relationships with Wright, Ayers, Flager et al. pas the sniff test of consistent and persistent. Birds of a feather flock together.
Neither candidate appeals to most of the people I know. You won’t find out how close Obama’s rascist and socialaist relationships are until after the election. By then it will be too late. Obama reminds me of the kid’s in middle school elections that promise to put Coke in the drinking fountains.
Carter was a moralist and tried to do good things. He was a horrible President. What you will get with Obama is someone less pragmatic than Clinton. Obama is far left of Carter and Clinton with none of their redeeming values.
October 12, 2008 @ 9:45 amWould you really say America had a form of socialism during that time? I would find that a hard stretch to define socialism in a way that encompasses any US administration.
October 12, 2008 @ 2:31 pmReally, you don’t think Johnson’s “Great Society” social engineering had no elements of socialism? And what about Carter? He was the one who originally passed the CRA, another form of social engineering that has us in the mess we’re in now, after both Republicans and Democrats expanded on it. Even before that, though, FDR introduced a mountain of socialist measures, even though his reign was probably the closest thing to fascism this country has ever come.
Exactly. He didn’t sit under the “preaching” of guys like Pfleger and Wright for 20 years without agreeing with the substance of what was said, unless it was all a long-running ploy to make himself look black enough. As the Rev. Ken Jones put it, churches like that are, “Urban, Democratic, and Angry.” What are they angry about, I wonder? There would have been no need for Obama to distance himself from Wright for purposes of election expediency if there wasn’t a huge problem with what was being said in Wright’s bi-monthly sermons. Let us also not forget what is contained in Michelle Obama’s master’s thesis. While “hate” is probably too strong a word, there’s no question Obama looks at whites through the lens of some sort of grudging anthropologist, as Spengler put it, despite the fact that whites raised him.
Integration has been discussed on this thread, but how is even possible when Michelle Obama’s own thesis contains sympathies and loyalties towards black separatism?
October 12, 2008 @ 5:14 pmI believe I said and wrote some things when I was 21 that I later refined, and I am not a minority. We whites have no idea what it means to be black in America, and frankly, we don’t want to know.
October 12, 2008 @ 5:51 pmTrue, but M.O’s “this is the first time I’ve been proud of my country” rhetoric, combined with the fact that she worked as a professional diversicrat indicate that little has changed in her views. She, and probably her husband, want to maintain a black separatism. Their attendance of Wright’s church where the same ideology was preached from the pulpit are a further validation of this.
That may be true, but I think we’re all mostly to blame for our own situations. I think black America is in the state its in because black America has put itself in that situation, just as Asian America is in almost the exact opposite situation because of Asian America. I think pinning the situation of black America on whites is nothing more than an anti-white guilt mechanism that so many people feel the need to perpetuate. Too many people are profiting from that lie, except for probably black America. Jeremiah Wright has certainly profited handsomely from keeping his black congregants pissed-off. He now lives in a 10,000 square-foot mansion in a white neighborhood. Looks like he took his own advice, eschewed “middle-classness” (as he told his congregants to do), and went straight for “upper-classness.”
October 12, 2008 @ 6:59 pmExhibit A in how little we white Americans understand concerning the risidual effects of slavery, racism, and segregation. Barak Obama and Michelle are products of the “American Dream”, however they are not perfect and have made many mistakes and have sometimes shown some bitterness.
But they are not in the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton mode, and the relationship with Wright is very troubling. Aside from race, he is very liberal. I do not believe we as Christ imitators must demonize people because we have opposite moral and political views.
October 13, 2008 @ 4:29 amThe suggestion that an entire race is responsible for their condition is latent racism. It openly profers some genetic defect in that race that unlike whites and Asians they seem to be unable to achieve like other races.
The fact that the black race continues to rise despite unbelievable odds and prejudice suggests the opposite. To ignore the scenarion in which blacks came to America, to ignore the way they were segregated, to ignore the way in which they suffered across the board prejudice, is to ignore our own racist ignorance.
No pity, just some compassionate understanding.
October 13, 2008 @ 5:34 amRick – I understand what you’re saying, and I agree with you, up to a point. The questions must be asked though. When will the black community stop blaming racism for its problems? At what point will they take responsibility, both individually and collectively, for their own lives? And, why isn’t it considered racist and bigoted to imply to the black community that they’re just victims and can’t be held to the same standard as other groups? Would the black community be better off today if the “Great Society” and “War on Poverty” hadn’t occurred? If you think these programs were helpful to the black community, I suggest you read some of Thomas Sowell’s books.
We have to get to a point in our nation at which we can discuss issues of race honestly.
October 13, 2008 @ 6:18 am“When will the black community stop blaming racism for its problems?”
Yes, that is their way out. But we must understand the path that led to some of their plight, while members of the black community must provide leadership not sympathy.
I agree.
October 13, 2008 @ 7:17 amNow that we have black supreme court justices, Secretaries of State, soon-to-be presidents, I guess one has to start wondering what evidence there is for any of this? I think people cling to views like yours because it helps them out psychologically in some way. Perhaps you’ve got some reason for clinging to this view, but I think it starts to look a little bit silly to the rest of us after awhile.
I’ve gotta wonder why you drew that conclusion? Who here mentioned genetics? I find it hard to believe that genetics are the cause of the illegitimacy rates, crime rates, and HIV infection rates in the African-American community. There are so many choices that go into producing an illegitimate child, committing a crime, and engaging in homosexuality that it would be patently absurd to suggest a genetic cause. Screaming, “Racism!” really isn’t going to help the discussion either.
No matter what I say, or what evidence I present, you’re going to cling to your views, therefore I think we’ve probably passed the point of useful discussion.
October 13, 2008 @ 9:13 amThe black guy in the “hood” who perpetuates misery on his own community has never been a slave, nor does he know a slave. What he does know, is that he can break the law with impunity, impregnate as many women as possible, never get a job or understand the pride that comes with getting an earned paycheck, etc.. In short, he is a social miscreant not because of the color of his skin or racism, but because his moral compass is broken. This is a sin problem, not a race problem.
The above scenario is rampant in the inner cities of our nation. Blacks who can afford it and who take advantage of the affirmative action programs at their disposal, leave the inner city as soon as they can. Who can blame them.
October 13, 2008 @ 10:39 amAnother problem caused by the “victim” mentality – ACORN workers feel absolutely entitled to cheat by registering people dozens of times, registering dead people and non-existent people and on and on. After all, they’ve been the victims of “institutionalized racism” and voter suppression for decades. If they have to cheat to even things up a bit, so be it. You can’t expect them to adhere to the same standard as everyone else, can you?
As I posted a few days ago, I’m resigned to an Obama presidency, and, if it wasn’t for the Supreme Court appointments he’ll make, I might even look forward to it. Once we have a black president, we should be able to lay all this to rest and get on with our lives as AMERICANS instead of racial and class identity groups to be played off against each other by demogoguing politicians.
October 13, 2008 @ 11:53 amCarol,
If you think an Obama presidency will do anything but embolden ACORN racial agitator types, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
October 13, 2008 @ 1:09 pmWell, one can hope.
October 13, 2008 @ 1:09 pmI sternly suggest that we all go back to Carol’s suggestion and read Sowell’s take on this again. She is correct. Also, Sowell has some rather pointed advice about the current bruha in education and its many fads. Think of Sowell as an African American version of Charles Murray. And as a sharp needle in his own right. He pops the myths one by one, on everything from the Great Society to PC fads in the classroom. But now, was discrimination less for him than others? Hmmm.
As to the G.S. and the Welfare State, though controversial due to his statements on Lincoln, you might also check out Thomas DiLorenzo.
I have poured over many of their works and am only sorry that I’ve not posted more to others before!
October 13, 2008 @ 3:10 pmPR – No matter what I say, or what evidence I present, you’re going to cling to your views, therefore I think we’ve probably passed the point of useful discussion.
October 13, 2008 @ 3:22 pm[...] given to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop from 1995 to 2001. The amount is not the $175K I had reported earlier. According to this page, the total given under Barack Obama’s direct supervision was $1,056,162. [...]
October 18, 2008 @ 10:54 pm[...] Verum Serum’s writer has done great work in tracing the MONIES that went to Bill Ayers, siphoned off of the Woods Fund and Joyce Foundation on whose boards Barack Obama sat. For details on the money — over two million dollars went to Bill Ayers’ “Small Schools Project” — see Verum Serum’s stories, “Crossing Paths Daily: Obama and Ayers Shared an Office (Update: For Three Years) and “Ayers and Obama: Follow the Money (Updated: Nearly $2M to Ayers).” [...]
October 19, 2008 @ 6:45 am[...] given to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop from 1995 to 2001. The amount is not the $175K I had reported earlier. According to this page, the total given under Barack Obama’s direct supervision was $1,056,162. [...]
October 19, 2008 @ 7:19 am[...] given to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop from 1995 to 2001. The amount is not the $175K I had reported earlier. According to this page, the total given under Barack Obama’s direct supervision was $1,056,162. [...]
October 19, 2008 @ 8:01 amPlease – Ayers and the Samll Schools Workshop are affiliated with the Universtiy of Illinois at Chicago NOT the Universtiy of Chicago.
October 19, 2008 @ 8:44 am[...] given to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop from 1995 to 2001. The amount is not the $175K I had reported earlier. According to this page, the total given under Barack Obama’s direct supervision was $1,056,162. [...]
October 19, 2008 @ 10:12 am[...] given to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop from 1995 to 2001. The amount is not the $175K I had reported earlier. According to this page, the total given under Barack Obama’s direct supervision was $1,056,162. [...]
October 19, 2008 @ 11:18 am[...] When Obama and Ayers collaborated together on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) education-reform project, with Obama chairing the board that oversaw funding decisions, CAC underwrote the Klonsky/Ayers Small Schools Workshop with a whopping $1,056,162. And that’s not all. Nearly another million dollars was steered to the Small Schools Workshop by the Joyce and Woods Funds when Obama sat on their boards. The grand total comes to $1,968,718. [...]
October 22, 2008 @ 2:31 pm[...] to the Small Schools Workshop by the Joyce and Woods Funds when Obama sat on their boards. The grand total comes to [...]
October 22, 2008 @ 7:56 pm[...] to the Small Schools Workshop by the Joyce and Woods Funds when Obama sat on their boards. The grand total comes to [...]
October 24, 2008 @ 2:23 am[...] recipients. Obama worked for them too. During Obama’s time at Woods and Joyce, those funds gave another $900 thousand to Small Schools. They also funded Bill Ayers’ brother John’s organization, Leadership [...]
October 27, 2008 @ 4:54 pm[...] grant recipients. Obama worked for them too. During Obama’s time at Woods and Joyce, those funds gave another $900 thousand to Small Schools. They also funded Bill Ayers’ brother John’s organization, Leadership for [...]
October 31, 2008 @ 8:03 amHello All:
More on Ayers brothers and Obama. Let me give you some names for research if interested. John Ayers orchestrated an ACORN charter with the help of brother Bill and his Marxist buddy that was shut down. I know why ,but I’ll let others figure it out. It was run by an Humbolt Park connected
November 4, 2008 @ 7:57 amfemale and malfeasance was at the core. Said female,get this,
wound up at a Chicago High School and proceeded to destroy that place over 6 years. Most have no idea how evil these people are. If interested contact Joyce Foundation director of 10 years ago, a guy who got a PHD from U/C and the goof who Vallas hired to run the Charters who conveniently resigned after Acorn was canned. Daley does not even know the half of this.
[...] to the Small Schools Workshop by the Joyce and Woods Funds when Obama sat on their boards. The grand total comes to $1,968,718. Furthermore, as education remains one of Obama’s core areas of concern — a [...]
November 5, 2008 @ 9:17 pmTHE RACIST PLOY TO GAIN VOTES & INSIGHT PREJUDGIST
November 12, 2008 @ 9:54 amThe purpose of the Civil War was to free the negro (black American) from slavery. When the war was won, they gained their freedoms and started living a different type of life. Granted it may not have been easy but it was the start of a new life. No different than those of our Great, Great, Great grandparents. Not much has been said about this war over the years that ensued. The emancipation of the black Negro, Afro- American, was a tremendous endeavor. Yet today little credit is given to those “whites” that fought and gave up their lives because they believed everyone should be free.
Now the only thing that can be assured is whenever action is taken against an Afro-American, regardless whether right or wrong the racial ticket is thrown into the ring.
Throughout the 2008 campaign racial innuendos have run ramped. If you don’t vote for Obama you are a racist.
If freedom from discrimination is truly the intent, then stop carrying the racial baggage on your shoulder to fall upon every time you fail to achieve or don’t like what is happening. You don’t see the Jewish people charging discrimination, or the women as well even though they are not treated equally all the time. They have prevailed by pushing ahead and succeeding and making a place in the world. The women in some of the Mid-Eastern countries do not have any freedom at all and they live horrible lives at the mercy of their husbands, brothers and militant rule. If we want to feel sympathy for any one it should be for them as they have no means of voicing their opinions without fear of death. The American people, both black and white have that freedom but for some it is taken lightly. A majority of those that move ahead by mere determination, are not interested in the racial accusations. They are the achievers. They don’t linger on the past injustices, but look ahead to the possibilities. They don’t take out their frustration on others around them or their government for their failure to achieve. Knowing that one’s failure is based on their unwillingness to take positive action, get the high school education and then college, which will open the doors to their future. They don’t get involved with drugs knowing it will be their down fall. Nor do they join gangs to gain power over people, in their family or neighborhoods. They don’t take or kill for possessions that belong to someone else. They are an inspiration to all.
There are those that have no freedom, no voice in their government. They own very little although they work hard, they also are weak from lack of food, and their children are forced to fight in a police force which kills their parents any anyone else in their way, without hesitation. They have lost spirit and make no plans for the future, something that all of do not have to deal with. However, are we happy? No! We are so use to having more that we demand it.
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December 19, 2008 @ 12:08 am[...] given to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop from 1995 to 2001. The amount is not the $175K I had reported earlier. According to this page, the total given under Barack Obama’s direct supervision was $1,056,162. [...]
May 21, 2009 @ 9:45 pmThis just in, non-profit foundations raise money… and you all found them out! ZOMG! Ayers must be working on his plan to raise his evil lizard army to take over the US and turn it into socialism! THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Why don’t you people stick to stories about mustard on hamburgers and terrorist fashion scarves, its not as embarrassing.
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