In my opinion, the teachers union is also a culpri...

2007-11-24T06:25:00.000-08:00

In my opinion, the teachers union is also a culprit. The amount of the money that trickles down to the children is so unfair. After the school board members get their share, the union their share, and the teachers and administrators get theirs, somehow there is not even enough money left for the children to have toilet paper. That, to me, demonstrates how little the "leaders" think of the children.

BAMN is a disgrace.If you ever need documentation ...

2007-11-24T00:42:00.000-08:00

BAMN is a disgrace.

If you ever need documentation of their shenanigans, I've compiled some stuff from my era as Treasurer and Dir. Media Rel. at MCRI. Dig around in my business site and you'll find most of it - www.chetlyzarko.com

Using children as pawns by taking them out of school, orchestrating (literally, I have visual evidence of the leaders "cue-ing" the students to action) mob violence at a public hearing (flipping tables over), public destruction of the Michigan Supreme Court building facade, stealing from the blind owners of the Michigan legislative lunch service vendor, being arrested (and later released without charge, of course) by U-M police for shouting down Ward Connerly, disrupting a meeting in a room by chanting so loudly it could be heard through the walls, following Gratz and myself as we left that room, spitting at Gratz, drawing a small knife in a subtly threatening way on Gratz, and I'm sure I'm missing a few things, not to mention all BAMN has done on non-MCRI issues, like encouraging bottle throwing at a protest outside a school about school finance issues causing students to be arrested (and then claiming police brutality, of course).

You want BAMN in a cave? Catch them in an illegal act and put them in jail. Or convince enough folks in the city to see through their scam and Conn game, and they'll catch them themselves (but, of course, the problems in the city are so pervasive that BAMN is really the least of our problems).

I was just at Thanksgiving dinner in Ann Arbor with a close African-American friend of my - its' been an annual deal for me since we were apartment mates before he was married, and since he stews up some-monster collard greens (reminiscent of my grandmother's) and black-eyed peas I never miss the opportunity. His family from Detroit comes in every year (being one of the few white guys in the house -this year the only one - is an interesting experience), and while I never talk politics, its always interesting to get an honest perspective on the condition of Detroit families which always seems to manifest itself in one way or another even if politics isn't directly mentioned. I oscillate between hope and despair on this front. Even in the best of families, if you live in Detroit, there is a sea of negative role models on the streets for the family influence to overcome. It's one extra gigantic hill to overcome - in a sea of other little obstacles.

How do we build a "critical mass" (screw the meaningless critical mass on elite university campuses) of role models in a place where there are almost zero? And when we do get a few, they burn out of the uphill fight they face in their own community and eventually themselves move out.

That is the most vexing and insoluble question of every inner-city in America.

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