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Obama pushed radical indoctrination in Chicago schools at Ayers’ behest

Posted 23 Sep 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, education, indoctrination, socialism, William Ayers

william_ayers_2001As you may recall, the University of Chicago recently resisted journalists’ efforts to review public records on the Chicago Annenberg Project, Obama’s sole claim of executive experience. Perhaps Stanley Kurtz’s Wall Street Journal article, “Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism on Schools”, reveals the reason why. In it, he exposes embarrassing information regarding Barack Obama’s activities under the direction of William Ayers, peddling far-left propaganda in Chicago public schools.

The CAC’s basic functioning has long been known, because its annual reports, evaluations and some board minutes were public. But the Daley archive contains additional board minutes, the Collaborative minutes, and documentation on the groups that CAC funded and rejected. The Daley archives show that Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers worked as a team to advance the CAC agenda.

One unsettled question is how Mr. Obama, a former community organizer fresh out of law school, could vault to the top of a new foundation? In response to my questions, the Obama campaign issued a statement saying that Mr. Ayers had nothing to do with Obama’s “recruitment” to the board. The statement says Deborah Leff and Patricia Albjerg Graham (presidents of other foundations) recruited him. Yet the archives show that, along with Ms. Leff and Ms. Graham, Mr. Ayers was one of a working group of five who assembled the initial board in 1994. Mr. Ayers founded CAC and was its guiding spirit. No one would have been appointed the CAC chairman without his approval.

The CAC’s agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers’s educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism. In the mid-1960s, Mr. Ayers taught at a radical alternative school, and served as a community organizer in Cleveland’s ghetto.

In works like “City Kids, City Teachers” and “Teaching the Personal and the Political,” Mr. Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression. His preferred alternative? “I’m a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist,” Mr. Ayers said in an interview in Ron Chepesiuk’s, “Sixties Radicals,” at about the same time Mr. Ayers was forming CAC.
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Mr. Ayers’s defenders claim that he has redeemed himself with public-spirited education work. That claim is hard to swallow if you understand that he views his education work as an effort to stoke resistance to an oppressive American system. He likes to stress that he learned of his first teaching job while in jail for a draft-board sit-in. For Mr. Ayers, teaching and his 1960s radicalism are two sides of the same coin.
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The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming “guilt by association.” Yet the issue here isn’t guilt by association; it’s guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle.

There’s a lot more information there, so read the whole thing.

So much for Obama’s mendacious denials that Ayers is, “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and “…not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” The facts seem to indicate that Obama exchanged over $100 million dollars in leftist ideas with the unrepentant terrorist on a regular basis, in the form of the CAC’s failed agitprop.

No wonder Barack Obama is considered by many to be the most radical member of the Senate, a fact he seems to be going to great lengths to conceal.

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