lord,

There are plenty in terms of grant money. I'll submit this lone example just last fall by the DOE fyi.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced the award of $24,601,758 to 62 colleges to enhance their capacity to serve low and middle-income African American students.

That didn't work. We'll try again.

LINK

DOC,
what do you suggest ?? Ceasing the current programs or recently proposed one in topic.

FOREVER ? I think this proposal is an attempt to end perpetuity of the current status.

So if someone was on the verge of starvation,would you not feed them some of your own fish that you had caught ? Seriously,you seem very bitter,selfish,and hateful.I'd like to know if you indeed would feed someone who simply didn't have some fish that they themself had caught or bought.
If yes,then isn't that your way of assisting as it pertains to sustinence.So,what's the big deal about education - it's the $ right and there's certainly nothing selFISH about wanting as much for you and yours.
Do you want more,and better opportunities for you and yours ? Well have some patience in this imperfect system that we're in and try being a little more compassionate.

This is totally wrong and a slap in the face to the other races in the country.

Even diehard Obama supporters should be ashamed of this.

Obama, you get a solid FFFFFFFFFFFFF ON THIS

i would like to think that would be insulting to every race

really?? 

The system has been created to be this way and to stay this way. The war on drugs has been an effort to keep non-white races entrenched in a drug war, devastating local communities. The school systems and children they teach are the victims of this institutionalized inequity.

Do people really want to change the status-quo? Some yes, most no. The white man has created his own exclusive sector of the economy, including the Prison Industrial Complex and lucrative jobs aimed at the futile anti-drug effort.

You could throw endless amounts of money at this problem and it would not make a dent. Again, the system has been created to stay this way.

To make actual progress call for radical change in the fabric of our society. Drugs must become legalized and treated as a health problem. The communities must be changed from the inside. But then the white man loses his economic niche that he has worked so hard to establish and maintain.

In addition, I believe welfare reform is in order. A strict two child policy must be enforced. We don't need the drastic measures of forced abortions. Just forced adoption. Sadly, this is another instance where racism might rear it's ugly head, as many are uncomfortable adopting a black child.

Fundamental change is necessary. It won't happen though. Too many fingers in the pie and rasicm is not so easily squashed out in continuing generations.

Doc,
If it's as you say,a need for 'morality indoctrination' to effect a sea change of attitudes,I certainly agree that could have a positive long term result.But,during the interim,what ?

We shouldn't at this time abandon all current assistance programs.
Deconstruct to be redesigned ? Sure !
(But to what degree for the concurrent recipients?)

Maybe this Education Office will implement more affective and effective models to counter the shortcomings of current programs.

We continue to spend $$ on medical research to find cures for diseases.Even though we have yet to find cures for certain diseases,should we STOP ?

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Then wouldn't the sensible thing for Obama to do is to work with the NAACP instead of taking matters into this own hand like with this racially divisive and sensitive program. Better yet, how about cracking the whip on the DOE to do more to help all struggling kids? A sub-division under the DOE like this that emphasizes black kids alone and leaving out other struggling students, namely the hispanics is just plain wrong however strong the spin is to justify it.

Obama's intention may be sound, but perception is everything. I just don't see this being well received by the vast majority of Americans. Oh is the Romney camp going to have a field day over this. You know it's coming.

And we can all agree that this is likely just further govt waste that need not be. }}}}}}

God no!!! If you haven't seen from this thread and others, my respect for the NAACP is nearly non-existent. MLK would turn over in his grave if knew of how this once great organization has become almost completely political in nature rather than proactive in its actions.

What exactly this program remains to be seen. If it is one that studies and assists communities with increasing the ability to educate, I'm all for it.

If, instead, it simply supplies tutors for only black children, it would clearly be problematic.

Most people agree with a program as long as it effects them personally !
If sNOT, then by god it's time to do a round of complaining !

It comes into sight that, far-off rejoicing diversity, the multitudes have taken every opening to divide themselves along racial boundaries, despite vast legions of social reformers, district authorities and the govt having worked attentively at advocating the welfare of the general public, advocating for a more integrated and united society. Almost all endeavors to wear down segregation look to have been futile. It seems this pattern of failure to overcome segregation will continue to reign over skilfully moral-intentioned policy to employ integration. A solitary aspect seen as an imperative apparatus to advance social mobility is education. High-level spending on education aimed to penetrate a specific racial boundary could be perceived to drive social mobility, serving to discover the latent potential of gifted adolescences buried within modest upbringings during their formative years. Using round numbers, the poverty rate among non Hispanic whites is around ten-percent, but the equivalent figure for blacks would drift around twenty-five percent. Non Hispanic whites comprise of around seventy-percent of the absolute populace but noticeably less than one half of the absolute number in poverty. Free from doubt, there are fundamental reasons why policy-makers are not equipped to hold sway over the level of inequality that surface in society. They function in an incredibly complex environment, in which decisions are entwined in inevitable uncertainty concerning their consequences. Every so often policy improves the matter of equality, however it is the total dimension of the predicament, the fact that countless score of influences encroach on inequality, which makes it tricky to figure out and have a commanding power over. Washington, aware of its limited resources to build counter-tactics is compelled to decide between alternatives.