November 23, 2019
Great article, dear readers! It's all here, https://pjmedia.com/trending/black-school-choice-protesters-drown-out-warren-speech-about-black-women/ and I really recommend you read it all!On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) gave a speech in Atlanta celebrating black female domestic workers. Yet black protesters disrupted the speech, criticizing Warren for her opposition to school choice.
"Our children, our choice!" chanted mostly black protesters wearing shirts with the phrase "Powerful Parents Network."
Warren, a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, paused her speech. Protesters shouted, "We want to be heard!" The candidate's supporters chanted, "Warren! Warren!"
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) — the only member of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Squad to endorse Warren as opposed to Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) — tried to calm down the protesters,The Washington Examiner reported.
"No one is here to quiet you, least of all this black woman," Pressley, who is herself black, said. "The senator is here to talk about the contribution fighters like you have made in history."
Indeed, Warren's speech focused on the black washerwomen's strike in 1881 and other events in the history of labor."There are fighters who were here before, fighters we can learn from, and the fighters I want to talk about tonight are black women," the 2020 candidate said.
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Warren's emphasis on black women in the labor movement echoed a speech she gave in September recounting Frances Perkins' response to the 1991 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Her far-left campaign has valorized the labor movement, piggy-backing off of Bernie Sanders' return to old-fashioned socialism.
Yet these black protesters are themselves evidence of the vices of the labor movement. Teachers' unions have gained a stranglehold on public education and the Democratic Party, pushing a one-size-fits-all approach that harms people based on their geographic location. School choice aims to allow parents to pick the right school for their children, rather than just having everyone go to the public school.
In many cities across America, school choice has enabled poor black children to go to better schools and enjoy a better path to success. Teachers' unions insist the only path forward is the failing public schools and the only way to improve the public schools is ... more funding. Schools need to be accountable to children and their parents, not unions that help entrench the problems in the current education system.
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Posted by: Bill H at November 24, 2019 09:45 AM (vMiSr)
Dana, you are right; if the Democrats lose just a few percent of the black vote they are kaput. I think that's why they are so desperate to get Trump at all costs. They would simply sit back and let him self-destruct otherwise. Their frantic attacks bespeaks fear. And that fear is because Trump is making inroads in the black community.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at November 24, 2019 12:44 PM (ryubH)
Granted, it's crap living on "Indian Reservations," but life there is basically what the Democrats want ALL of us to have: everything given to us so nobody has to work. Turn us all into indolent alcoholics.
Prove me wrong!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at November 24, 2019 09:55 PM (bRsGL)
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