> From: Matthew and Julie Bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 5/2/06 1:07 PM, "The Fool" wrote: > > > What you would expect to read in the more overtly racist Washington > > Times:
> > <<http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008318>> > > The Opinion Journal is part of the Wall Street Journal. I *said* that, Or can't you read? > But just to entertain me, how can a newspaper be racist? If you need some > background info on Shelby Steele, you could start here: <<http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=57>> the Times is the only major American newspaper that still features a weekly Civil War page. They know the Times has become a reliable source for extremist views on race, religion, immigration and Dixie. In 1998, Pruden, whose newspaper is the only major daily in America that runs a weekly page about a war that ended 138 years ago, spoke to the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the Manassas Battlefield Park. He began by making the kind of promise most editors avoid at any cost: "I will never fail to respond to you when you call on me for help, because I believe in what you are doing to cherish and protect and preserve the heritage of our great Southern people." Concluding with a flourish, Pruden said "Southerners ... hold loyalty to two countries in our hearts." The second country is one "baptized 137 years ago on this very field in the blood of First Manassas, a country no longer at the mercy of the vicissitudes in the tangled affairs of men, a country that lives within us, a country that will endure for as long as men and women know love. ... God bless America, God bless the Confederate States of America, and God bless you all." McCain, who wrote the story about Democrats and Dixie, has covered the group's biannual conferences in 1998, 2000 and 2002, making the Times the only major American newspaper to devote news stories to American Renaissance. Since 1999, the Times has also reprinted at least six excerpts from American Renaissance in its page-2 culture section, never acknowledging the highly controversial nature of the source. McCain has made no bones about being a fan of American Renaissance, writing a letter of "warm congratulations" to the magazine in 1997. Something else about McCain is even rarer: he belongs to a hate group the League of the South (LOS) that shares some of American Renaissance's views on race. > http://www.hoover.org/bios/steele.html I know who he is thank you very much. "In 2006, Steele received the Bradley Prize for his contributions to the study of race in America." Hmm. Where have I heard that name before? > But that would be too easy. Always Follow the Money. You can tell a lot about an entity if you look at the people and groups who fund them. Who funds the Hoover Institute (and gives the 'Bradley Prize'): <<http://www.mediatransparency.org/funderprofile.php?funderID=1>> Other Bradley grantees include the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation; the Hoover Institute on War, Revolution, and Peace; A man with extreme right-wing views, he was an early financial supporter of the John Birch Society, one of the country's leading far-right organizations Allen-Bradley was one of the last major Milwaukee employers to racially integrate, and then only through public and legal pressure. The New York-based John M. Olin Foundation grew out of a family manufacturing business in chemicals and munitions. It funds nationally influential right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research, and the Hoover Institute of War, Revolution and Peace. In response to intense criticism of Losing Ground, Bradley president Michael Joyce said, "Charles Murray, in my opinion, is one of the foremost social thinkers in the country." After writing Losing Ground, Murray teamed up with the late Harvard psychologist Richard Hernstein to write the book The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. The book was widely seen as a piece of profoundly racist and classist pseudo-science, and was denounced by the American Psychological Association. It had relied heavily on studies financed by the Pioneer Fund, a neo-Nazi organization that promoted eugenicist research. ---- Nope, no racism evident there. <<http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=6>> A study by the grassroots organizing group A Job is a Right Campaign has concluded that the Wisconsin welfare reform program known as "W-2" was developed under the guidance of the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation. Bradley is the country's leading ultra-conservative foundation, which, among other things, funded the nortoriously racist book "The Bell Curve", by authors Charles Murray and Richard Hernstein. Murray was actually brought in as a consultant by the task force that developed W-2 for the state of Wisconsin. The following are some of the highlights of the report:I - The Racist Agenda of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Bradley is a major funding source for the Center for Individual Rights, the public law firm that successfully argued Hopwood vs. the State of Texas, a challenge to affirmative action policies at the University of Texas Law School. Bradley money supports the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative legal advocacy group that provided pro bono representation to California Gov. Pete Wilson in his challenge to five state statutes dealing with affirmative action in state employment and contracting goals. Institute for Justice, another recipient of Bradley money. Landmark Legal Foundation, another Bradley recipient. Bolick also teamed up with another Bradley-funded organization, the Free Congress Foundation, to orchestrate further attacks on Guinier. The nominee's crime was to suggest that proportional representation might be a reasonable means of ensuring some diversity among state legislators and judges. and the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, literary home for such racist authors as Charles Murray ("The Bell Curve") and Dinesh D'Souza ("The End of Racism"); Charles Murray was the author of the book, "Losing Ground", in which he argued that poverty is the result of individual failings and that anti-poverty programs such as welfare were ill-conceived and should be eliminated. Commenting on the book in the Spring, 1994 issue of the Milwaukee education newspaper Rethinking Schools, Barbara Miner wrote "...Murray called for... an end to all government programs that provide economic support for single mothers such as AFDC, subsidized housing, or food stamps." >From at least 1986 to 1989, Bradley was giving Murray an annual grant of $90,000. By 1991, it was paying him $113,000 annually. In response to criticism of the book, Bradley president Michael Joyce said, "Charles Murray, in my opinion, is one of the foremost social thinkers in the country." After writing "Losing Ground", Murray teamed up with Harvard psychologist Richard Hernstein to write the book "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life" According to an article in The New York Times, Hernstein "predicted that as a society became more meritocratic, individuals with low I.Q.s could congregate on the bottom of the economic scale, intermarry and produce offspring with low I.Q.'s." "The Bell Curve" incorporated elements of both Murray's "Losing Ground" and Hernstein's genetic theories. The book argued that poverty is the result, not of social conditions or policies, but of the inferior genetic traits of a sub-class of human beings. It was widely seen as a piece of profoundly racist and classist pseudo-science. Immediately after the book's publication, Bradley raised Murray's annual grant to $163,000. Murray and Hernstein's prescription for an end to poverty and the "threat" of a growing "underclass" was the elimination of all social welfare programs and their replacement by a work-centered program of coercion and behavioral modification. The NCNE's president is Robert L. Woodson, Sr., who from 1977 to 1995 was a Resident Fellow at the Bradley-funded American Enterprise Institute. Woodson is author of such articles as "Blacks Who Use 'Racism' as Their Excuse" (The Wall Street Journal, 9/23/92); ---- <<http://www.blackcommentator.com/7_voucher_tricksters.html>> Bradley's modus operandi is quite simple: wherever real people organize to better their conditions in ways that inhibit the rule of money, Bradley and its sister foundations invent and fund pro-business groups as bogus alternatives. The right-wing's media machine then conveys credibility to the manufactured "movements," and the masquerade begins. Until his retirement this summer, the man who choreographed this devil's dance was Michael Joyce, president of Bradley and former president of the equally racist Olin Foundation. Joyce carefully targeted Bradley's more than $30 million in yearly donations for maximum political effect. Every cent spent was designed to move the nation further to the Right. Financiers of "The Bell Curve" We have no fear of overstatement in declaring the following: The Bradley Foundation is as thoroughly and methodically racist an organization as anything seen since the German Ministry of Propaganda, under the Nazis. This publication would never use a Nazi analogy lightly. Based on the scale of Bradley's relentless cultivation and dissemination of racist propaganda, this one fits. Before Bradley conjured up school vouchers as a public policy issue and arranged rent and salaries for the phony "movement," it financed the career of Charles Murray, author of "The Bell Curve," the infamous 1994 book that bestowed academic and media authenticity to the theory that Blacks are intellectually inferior to whites. Murray toiled for years in the racist vineyards of the Bradley-funded Manhattan Institute, a right-wing think tank housing a menagerie of academic bigots. When "The Bell Curve" got too hot for even the Manhattan Institute to handle - reminiscent, as it is, of Nazi race superiority "scholarship" - Joyce transferred Murray's $100,000 yearly checks to the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where the academic continued churning out his poison. In total, Murray amassed in excess of $1 million from Bradley, his reward for creating an atmosphere in which racism in its most primitive form is an acceptable element of public discourse. Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels would be proud. Bradley President Joyce was delighted with his investment, and promptly set up young, Indian-born Dinesh D'Souza with an office at Bradley-funded AEI. D'Souza's $100,000-plus salary is provided by Joyce's old friends at the Olin Foundation. His mission complimented Murray's work. D'Souza's 1995 book, "The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society" figured prominently in the People for the American Way report, Buying A Movement: D'Souza argues that black culture, particularly poor black culture, is pathological, and that "[f]or many whites the criminal and irresponsible black underclass represents a revival of barbarism in the midst of Western civilization ." "If blacks can close the civilization gap, the race problem in this country is likely to become insignificant." D'Souza states that the moral legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "remains ambiguous" because he "was never able to...raise the competitiveness and civilizational level of the black population." The cash that has gone into D'Souza's and Murray's pockets represents only a fraction of the foundation's investment in hate. Bradley finances a wide network of think tanks and publications that provide speaking venues and publicity for the foundation's racist hit men, multiplying the impact of their "ideas" until they finally enter and even dominate mainstream discussion. The Nazi analogy stands. Under Michael Joyce's stewardship, the Bradley Foundation mounted sustained, multi-million dollar campaigns to convince business, political, academic and media leaders, as well as the general population, that African Americans are intellectually inferior and pathological, uncivilized barbarians - campaigns that remain at full throttle. This is the putrid source of the school voucher "movement," the place of its genesis and ongoing sustenance. Everything and everyone associated with Bradley is hopelessly tainted by the stench of bigotry. Yet, it reaches out to embrace Black churches. Having defined African Americans in the public mind as unintelligent barbarians, the Bradley Foundation seeks to redefine education to suit the circumstances. The answer to the "Black problem," of course, is privatization - that's the solution to all problems, the beginning and end of every thought in the corporate mind. Joyce's coterie of African American collaborators will be well taken care of. Black supplicants will camp at his door. Republican insiders expect to see a high Washington profile awarded to the Center for New Black Leadership (CNBL), a checkbook invention of the Bradley Foundation and Joyce's previous Hard Right money pot, the Olin Foundation. Indeed, an alphabet soup of phony African American "alternatives" to current Black leadership can be expected to appear on the Washington landscape. That's the way Joyce creates the illusion of Black political conservatism. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
