One Man's Work Toward Improving Education for Poor Black Kids

A little late but let me wish everyone a Happy Memorial Day. Hope it was. Hope everybody got some patriotic inspiration as well as barbecue and potato salad. I didn't do anything myself which is why i forgot. ==================================

This post is for celebrating and hearing from another of those smart sane (conservative of course) black people I keep discovering these days. This is educator Ian Rowe who puts his mind to the problem of educating poor kids toward realizing the American dream. He claims not to represent one particular side of the political divide but he certainly espouses strong conservative values and has a great appreciation of the founding principles of America. This link is to a talk he gave for Hillsdale College:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iUlIMzWWmE&t=286s

And here's an interview of him by Glenn Loury in which he talks about a specific project of his of building a school in the Bronx for boys, to provide a high-level education to poor black kids. Some of it reminds me of the essay by Dorothyt Sayers that inspired the foundinag of at least one Christian school I know of, "Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning" in which she advocates the methods of ancient Greek education. Rowe and Loury are both connected with the 1776 Project of the Woodson Center, Robert Woodson being another of my recent discoveries of black people who are making the kind of difference I think needs to be made for the good of all of us and the nation itself. The name of the project points of course to the priority of American foundinjg principles, and at least in its inception to countering the execrable evil false 1619 Project (my own opihnion of course).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teLs4FL--hA

I think I get more hope for saving America from these conservative black voices than from any other source these days. Of course there are other important conservaqtive voices, but the way these guys have recognized and embraced the founding principle of America as THE source of success and prosperity for everyone, transcending even the suffering of racism, is particularly heartening.