so why would the NAACP base their decision to support the statist teacher unions on the betterment of the the kids?

The black community nationwide has for decades been held hostage by a handful of “black leaders” who exploit their own people for fame and fortune. The DNC has attached themselves to these leaders, and helped prop them up, in exchange for receiving their overwhelming support in elections. This situation has served people like Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, and a host of democrat politicians well, but has been disastrous for generations of black Americans. Many of these kids grow up in public housing, eating free breakfasts/lunches at their failing public school, waiting in long lines at the public health clinic, and being told not to trust the police or white people. They are taught by their “leaders” that they cannot succeed, because evil racists have rigged the system against them. In a way, this is true, but the evil racists are the “black leaders” themselves. If a significant portion of inner city black people received a “free and appropriate education”, moved out of public housing, started small businesses, went to graduate school, got well-paying jobs, left the crime-ridden inner cities, went off Medicaid, paid for their own groceries, and raised their families in freedom and prosperity, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, and a host of self-proclaimed “black leaders” would have to get real jobs. Their success requires failure on the part of other black people. They cannot go on CNN or MSNBC and complain about rising graduation rates, growing income levels or decreased incarceration rates among black people. They cannot profit from blackmailing corporations when well educated black people are being promoted up the corporate ladder. They have no interest in black success. It is time that we stop being intimidated by these “black leaders” and the NAACP, and stop being afraid of being called a racist (unless you actually are a racist) and start making political decisions that benefit all Americans, regardless of color, and especially those who have been so damaged by our insane social programs over the past 40 years. The next generation of black kids deserves better from us.

WSJ nailed it with the “standing in the door” metaphor. Hazel Dukes… George Wallace… what really is the difference?

In the article accompanying the linked video:

” …where a district school is housed alongside a charter school. In too many cases, there are smart boards, freshly painted walls and small class sizes in one school while in the other there are broken blackboards, crumbling facilities and overcrowded classrooms. Separate and unequal.”
– UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

Isn’t that always the way with liberals? Don’t raise the underachievers, lower the (over)achievers to attain the desired “equality.”

Despicable.

Every acronym Agency the Federal Government created OUTSIDE of their explicit duties for centuries and responsibilities writ in our Constitution has done NOTHING to create jobs, except for their Agency!
http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html

The mission of ALL Federal Agencies is to pile regulations upon regulations to prevent corporations from doing business and creating JOBS for the American patriots!

Crush the “Big Corporations” with “Big Union Leader Thugs”, who demand more and more ‘rights’ and produce less and less at increasing costs to consumers!

ALWAYS remember the progressive socialist’s favorite mantra and remind them of the Mother Goose story of the Greedy Giant who killed the Goose that “Laid The Golden Eggs?”

What they are doing is no different than if we were to “MEDICALIZE” the treatment of hard core drug usage by having our military set up clinics to dispense crack and heroin. The theory being that in order to take the profit out of the drug trade you have to break the chains of the business relationship between addict and dealer…..

That’s right the drug dealers would threaten and scare their “customers” that they would F–K them up if they don’t buy from them. In order for this medically supervised program to take away the $$$ from the drug trade the military and the police would have to protect the addicts …from the dealers!! The drug dealers would declare an all out war on the medical clinics dispensing the free drugs and the addict customer they have to keep bringing them money.

The addicts in the case of this story are the useful idiot inner city students….the dealers are the Race hustlers like NAACP that make money from taxpayers to keep their franchise going. Instead of bullets as the drug dealer uses they use cries of “racism” and we need more tax money to get better pay for our teachers.

Now we all know the failure of the 60′s social engineering programs. Welfare has helped destroy the black family unit …as well as the urban white family unit…..My babies daddy is a result of paying people NOT to engage in the fundamental unit of our society. The married family unit is at the core of when America was a great nation!!!

Black people still believe to this day that Republican means KKK. Little do they know their hero Martin Luther King Jr was a Republican….and the Klan was largely a southern Democratic organization….

What I will never understand it how some people who are sports fans look at a team and know every detail in a minutia of stats the goes way back to their college days….yet they can’t see a game plan in real life that would work in their own lives…If Blacks, Whites, or whomever want to be successful in life they only need to look at those that ARE successful…and emulate their game plan…not just their material possessions.

So called “White Guilt” is what put Barrack Obama over the edge in 2008…and look what that got us….!!

THAT won’t play in 2012. Eric Holder said we were “a nation of cowards” when it comes to race……BUNK! Eric the Racist!!! Well I’m here to tell it like it is…until the Black community stops with the Uncle Tom attitude when it comes to holding back their own race…..The black race hustlers and opportunists like our Holder will always be your new ” massers”…on the Democratic voter plantation …. it’s only walls are in your mind….!!!! the mind they want to keep down by scare tactics and cries of racism at every turn……

It’s a long time since slavery in this country was repealed……..When will the slave mentality be repealed….from one”masser” to another….sheesh! slavery is still alive in the hearts and minds of people who walk with the crutch of RACISM……

that any human would sacrifice a child’s learning for the sake of money and standing. It explains, fully, the progressive/socialist mindset that professes to have our youth’s best interest at heart. It screams “I, ME, MINE.

This is not just a fight by American parents in Harlem against the Democrat party and their puppet organizations, (the public teachers union or the NAACP). The main, (left) stream media is the voice for the tyranny of the party in a city where the cancer of leftism is epidemic. This is truly a fight that the tea party can and must enter. To join in the fight with American parents for the freedom to have their children educated. This Same fight happened back in the 70s after a report by Mike Wallace on 60 minutes on store front schools and the success they were having in Harlem. The difference between then and now, is now there is a tea party. We should get our local tea party chapters across this nation to contact Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone and Harlem Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz and offer whatever support they need to secure this freedom for their children.

“You can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear”.profound and it applies here. We can throw all the money we can get our hands on at educatuon and unless the family unit is educated and supportive of the effort nothing good will result.Clearly,unions don’t have the child’s best interest at heart!!!!!

back in the 80′s I had bright, intelligent and personable minority kids who would be doing well for a while then the grades would fall off, their demeanor would change and they would start to cause discipline problems. When I asked around about what caused the change the answer always came back that their peers had accused them of trying to be white. Since the start of the equal rights movement, much of the problem was no support from family or peers for those who could be successful. Now that the entitlement mentality has superceded the success mentality the problem of non-support and peer pressure has grown like a virus. The government has been feeding this menatlity with more entitlement porgrams and throwing more money at it since the 60s. Nothing has really changed for a large % of the entitlement crowd. Like the other unions, the only ones benefitting are the “leaders and union bosses”. I would be interested to know where Ms. Duke’s kids went to school.
One thing is true, a 40% graduation rate and they want to keep the school open, is definitely a race problem!

“When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.”-Albert Shanker, past president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Seems the naacp feels the same.