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By Roger Kimball

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Tina Trent
2008-10-28 06:07:39

These people certainly believe in money when it buys their upscale brownstone, lines their pockets via faux “community outreach jobs” at publicly funded hospitals, or magnifies their political base by allowing them to grandly subsidizing destructive afrocentric prattle in the classrooms of the poor.

Money is OK, in other words, so long as they are the ones who either get it directly or get to use it to advance their careers on the backs of the underclass.

The real losers, ironically, will be that underclass. Rather than being coaxed towards progress, the bottom feeders of the community activism Left will find themselves flush with cash again to perpetuate racial grievances and oppose self-reliance of any form. Mix in a legal ideology hellbent on releasing criminals back into communities, and all the tenuous economic and safety gains of the late 90′s will go up in smoke. This is, after all, precisely what Obama chose for the poor (not for himself or his children) at every stage of his political life. Why believe that will change now?

I wonder if his daughters received a normal, success-based education or the crazy, Asa Hilliaresque race fantasies Obama and Ayers imposed on the children of the poor.