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.

Thomas Jefferson's Warnings on Today's Leftist Immigration Policies

The following quotes from Thomas Jefferson are from a website I'm not familiar with, titled The Progressive Conservative, which to my mind is a wacko oxymoron. To describe a political position, the term "progressive" was consciously chosen as a way to obscure the Communist agenda it was intended to represent. There must be a huge number of people who identify with it today who have no idea what they are supporting. What on earth it means on this website I don't know. I'm reproducing part of this article because I appreciate its point of view. And by the way, they also quote Jefferson saying some things about immigration that the Left would embrace, but since they go on to counter it with the following I didn't quote that part. It's there if you want to look it up.

https://www.proconservative.net/PCVol5Is272FarrellImmigrationInsecurity.shtml

In his Notes on the State of Virginia (1787), Jefferson reflects:

"It is for the happiness of those united in society to harmonize as much as possi- ble in matters which they must of necessity transact together. Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. "Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English Constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason. To these nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of abso- lute monarchies. Yet from such we are to expect the greatest number of emi- grants." (3)

Jefferson warns, nearly prophetically:

"They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an un- bounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In pro- portion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its directions, and render it a heterogeneous, in- coherent, distracted mass.

Why Do Ordinary Liberals Support the Destruction of America? Andy Ngo on Antifa and BLM.

Is it ignorance, thanks to the organized propaganda and censorship of the truth, along with the undermining of American education over the last half century or so, or do they actually hate the principles on which the nation was founded?

Journalist Andy Ngo has studied Antifa and written the book "Unmasked" about them:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=andy+ngo+unmasked&i=stripbooks&crid=1EM0LWNI80EXD&sprefix=Andy+Ngo+%2Caps%2C225&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_9

He shows that they operate under a false image, that they are out to destroy America, their background is Communism, and that their success at continuing to destroy the cities they have targeted for over a year now, is due to the support of everyday liberals. He lays out his experience and conclusions in a talk he gave at Hillsdale College this month:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yziRK7j0Zpw
He sees no way to stop them because of the support they get so he offers no hope of ending the violence.

The whole anti-racism and anti-fascism explanation is based on lies. Why don't those on the left see this? Why don't they see what Antifa and BLM really are? Why don't they see that what they are destroying is America itself? Or is that OK with them?