According to the Washington Examiner, House Dems are ready to take on the election season with professional “race bait” training from someone who learned the art from the best. Their expert instructor, Maya Wiley, has plenty of connections current and past to make her the ideal choice.
Currently with the Center for Social Inclusion, Maya has a resume that any progressive would envy, including work with Soros’ Open Society, NAACP, Tides, and the ACLU:
Prior to founding the Center for Social Inclusion, Maya was a senior advisor on race and poverty to the Director of U.S. Programs of the Open Society Institute and helped develop and implement the Open Society Foundation – South Africa’s Criminal Justice Initiative. She has worked for the American Civil Liberties Union National Legal Department, in the Poverty and Justice Program of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Maya previously served on the boards of Human Rights Watch, the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota School of Law and the Council on Foreign Relations. She currently chairs the Tides Network Board and was named a NY Moves magazine 2009 Power Woman. In 2011 Wiley was named as one of “20 Leading Black Women Social Activists Advocating Change” by The Root.com.
Speaking of Tides, DiscoverTheNetworks reminds us that Wade Rathke was a founder and also happened to be a protege of Maya’s late father, ’60s radical George A. Wiley:
Maya Wiley, daughter of George A. Wiley, sits on the Tides Center’s Board of Directors.
The Tides Center’s Board Chairman is Wade Rathke, who is also a member of the Tides Foundation Board. Rathke, a protege of the late George A. Wiley, serves as President of the New Orleans-based Local 100 of the Service Employees International Union, and is the founder and chief organizer of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
In fact, George accomplished quite a bit, using the Cloward and Piven tactics of the day. He started the National Welfare Rights Organization, which later inspired the founding of ACORN:
Under the influence of two Columbia University School of Social Work professors, Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, Wiley sought to promote racial justice by providing economic opportunities for the poor. In June 1966, he organized several demonstrations that led to the formation of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO).
Steven Malanga wrote more about this in a 2006 Wall Street Journal piece:
Acorn’s roots are in the National Welfare Rights Organization, whose leader, George Wiley, believed he could use poor, unwed mothers to foment a revolution. The NWRO agitated for unlimited welfare benefits for those mothers and persuaded many urban politicians to loosen welfare eligibility requirements. This led to a more-than doubling of the welfare roles and strained local budgets. Wiley hoped to persuade the federal government to come to the rescue with massive aid. Instead NWRO’s strategy prompted a backlash against “welfare mothers” and politicians in free-spending cities like New York.
When Wiley’s welfare strategy reached a dead end he moved on to other ventures, including sending some of his troops to form a new community organization in Arkansas, infused with the same radicalism. It was a brilliant stroke: By the early ’70s billions of dollars in federal and state aid was streaming to these local groups, spurred by Republicans in Washington who reasoned that it was better to fund nonprofits than create giant federal bureaucracies to run burgeoning antipoverty programs. Little did the GOP understand that the money would finance a nationwide network of organizations that for decades have mobilized urban residents against the party’s candidates and agenda.
Clearly, Maya has a family heritage of radical revolution as well as her own vast amount of experience with the strongest progressive political machines of today. What better choice for instruction (or should we say “destruction”) could the Democratic Party ask for?
In other words, she is a professional, race-baiting demagogue.
As Dirty Harry Callahan would say, “Swell.”
If I live to be a 1,000 I will never understand why these radicals and whatever else you may call them hate the US so much. I have studied history much of my life. I have lived in other countries and many different U.S.states. It truly baffles me that they are so bent on destroying our culture and traditions. It almost reminds me of Jim Jones and devastation he caused. It almost makes me think these radicals are that crazy.
Race-baiting demagogue…..? Why?
America and its founding principles is the biggest remaining evidence of Enlightenment ideals — of moral individualism in particular, but also of its political expression: individual rights, liberal capitalism, constrained government.
The Left’s entire raison d’etre is to wipe the Enlightenment out of the minds of everyone, to discredit it so thoroughly that mankind simply turns around in the sunlight and marches back into the primitive, collectivist past as if the light had never existed.
Transforming America into a totalitarian empire achieves this goal. IT is the Left’s end-of-road. It doesn’t matter who ends up running that empire, only that it IS an empire, or a balkanized ruin of little fiefdoms a la Jericho, or a scattering of small centers of semi-civilization against a backwater of chaos… anything but a republic that makes “every man a sovereign”.
Motivation? I’ll make it simple – power and money. Having more of one gets you more of the other.
Does anyone actually believe Jesse Jackson, for example, formed the Rainbow Coalition in order to make the world a better place?
“If I live to be a 1,000 I will never understand why these radicals and whatever else you may call them hate the US so much.”
About half the adult population is doing less well than average — because that’s what the definition of average is. Add to that fact an overwhelming ignorance about how the rest of the world lives, so that there is no understanding about how people are better off poor in the US than of average wealth in most other countries, and you get fertile ground for demagogues. These demagogues can easily end up persuading you first to blame and then — as you get older and the overall shape of your life becomes more apparent — to hate the US for your failure to thrive.
“If I live to be a 1,000 I will never understand why these radicals and whatever else you may call them hate the US so much.”
It’s not a Marxist state and they want it to be one. Apparently slavery is addictive.
These Leftists are like fluke worms eating the liver of the greatest Democratic Republic that ever existed.
Oh God, is that her in the picture?
Ha! No, that is her radical dad.
You don’t have to go to her father to root this woman out: she’s another black racialist who obsesses about black folks while pillorying any one who’s white for even a hint of doing what she does as a career.
She’s on record as saying the BP oil disaster would’ve been handled differently if the head of BP were not white. She is a firm advocate of Michelle Alexander’s New Jim Crow where she feels non-violent black drug offenders are ethnically and disproportionately targeted to take away their right to vote or earn a living after they leave prison.
Were black folks targets of hyper-crack laws, one would think not selling such drugs would be an easy way out of this diabolical trap whites have set for blacks from Maine to Oregon and San Diego to Florida. How this system employs people of all colors and states to institute this plan across a variety of law enforcement infrastructures in unknown, but presumably the godfather’s are all white.
She is politically correct to the hilt and despises whites as endemic racists. Think of any buzz words about race and she will have uttered them, including that AZ talks in “code” about race when they want to talk about protecting “us” from illegal alien drug cartels. The “us” are, somehow, white people. That’s what she said.
To say she is an unflinching moron is like saying the sun is warm.
Here is how Obama will win the election: every criticism against Obama will be called racist. If you vote against Obama, you are a racist. Romney will be painted as a reincarnation of Jefferson Davis and a religious racist fundamentalist who is keeping the black man from staying in the White House. This is how Obama will get over 50% of the white vote. Whites will do anything to avoid being seen as racist.
Sorry but I can’t agree that whites will vote for Obama to prove they’re not racists.
They did that last election.
This time they will vote against him to prove they’re not stupid.
I think that Ms. Maya is being looked at the wrong way. Democrats are correct: you must know the people from whom you ask support. If I ask a young African-American (possibly Libyan or Liberian-Coastal African American) to support me in an election, I want to be sensitive to that individual’s needs. What do they like to eat? What fuels their cultural perspective? Does he or she like falafel? If so, should I propose a program aimed at supplying low-cost falafel? Maybe subsidized Kool cigarettes? I too would look to an expert like Ms. Maya. I think this is the real point that the author of this story misses.
OBAMA ’12
Oh, you are good.
Had me all the way up to the Kool cigs. Kool is no longer cool, man. B&M cherry or vanilla is in, way in. My Bruthaaa.
– so ugly.
I could care less who the left hires to destroy America. When others here and in America finally get the message that the left and right cannot live together here in America, we can finally settle this issue.
Until then LE and all the white progs and black racists can have all the fun they want. I only wish that I could see what becomes of LE when the blacks turn on the white progs for what they have wrought on them.
Wow.. The Dems could have been blindfolded, opened a phone book, ANY phone book and ‘picked’ a better person than Ms. Wiley.
Politicians, this go-round the Democrats make it far too easy to be ridiculed.
“Currently with the Center for Social Inclusion, Maya has a resume that any progressive would envy, including work with Soros’ Open Society, NAACP, Tides, and the ACLU: …”
“Speaking of Tides, DiscoverTheNetworks reminds us that Wade Rathke was a founder and also happened to be a protege of Maya’s late father, ’60s radical George A. Wiley: …”
“In fact, George accomplished quite a bit, using the Cloward and Piven tactics of the day. He started the National Welfare Rights Organization, which later inspired the founding of ACORN: …”
“Acorn’s roots are in the National Welfare Rights Organization …”
It always circles back somehow, to the same handful of 60′s radicals, no matter what lefty group you start with. I’ve done my own research on just small local lefty groups, and every time you follow it up, you end up in the same place. All made possible from Soros of course, and more and more now, our stupid gov’t handing out 503C’s and grants like candy. Throw in the indoctrinated useful idiots as OWS or whatever changing names they use, and I would have to agree, it is reminiscent of Jim Jones. AKA: Soros. I remember that, and JJ’s “Utopia” they all fell for. Eerily similar I’m afraid.