Betraying ones own
Posted by raj in Education, School ChoiceJul 11th, 2010 | no responsesSchool vouchers work and work very well. The idea is spreading is also comforting. In some Scandinavian countries like Sweden school choice has been in practice for over a decade and the results are as expected. That is not the point of this post.
Betraying ones own people. Especially when they are poor, desperate and especially when it involves saving the future of those poor and desperate people. How does one do that ? Year after year, even in the face overwhelming evidence that what you are supporting is overwhelmingly wrong. Check out..
The Education debacle of the decade by Bob Ewing from Institute for Justice
There is a mention of Washington DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton was one of the principal opponents of OSP and was instrumental in ending the program. (Washington DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). Established in 2004 as a five-year pilot program, OSP is among the most heavily researched federal education programs in history.)
This lady is one of those perennial Black politicians that the media dredges out when they have to discuss something about Blacks. One of those pols who survives year after year, even though she is completely out of sync with her own community. Amazing demonstration of some of the cynical aspects of Public Choice Theory. (Fascinating subject you should research about) 
What is sad is that Ms Norton has spent an entire lifetime not just talking about civil rights but even putting her life on the line for it. I guess getting elected and suddenly seeing people lining up to pay obeisance to you changes all that. Also some people, I have observed, get fossilised. Their idea of what is civil rights (or any other cause they fought for) seem to get frozen in time. Times change. What people want, Black parents in this case, change. Unfortunately fossils find it difficult to change with time. They go through all kinds of twisting and turning to convince others why their dead, warped ideas are still in sync. They will play the race card, “what will Dr King do or Jesus do” card, ….. but they are not able to tell you the truth. That they are too comfortable with what they have, too afraid to lose it, too used to the comforts of attention and spotlight. No longer able to stand up to the current special interests, like they used to, to the special interests of the past. So they continue to occupy time and space, unfortunately this time, at the cost of the future of millions of children. Their own. Sad!
But I am hopeful. I am of the opinion that liberals who promote ideas like vouchers have won the war. Yet we may have to continue fighting battles, even lose some, but the future has already been written. Reading history, feeling the historical trends, keeping in mind human nature and historical record of ever expanding circles of individual freedom and autonomy. ….. the Nortons of the old world will be buried in infamy. Along with all quislings and collaborationists of the past who callously or otherwise, betrayed their own.
Revolutions devour its own children. Surely it tries. Makes feeble attempts. But then, when revolutions get fossilsed, the children devour the revolution and excrete it out of the other end. The revolutions children move on to create the next revolution.
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