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Bill Ayers who co-founded the Weathermen, a communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings, spent the time that his wife Bernardine Dohrn was in prison running a kindergarten to instill his ideas in the very young. Those ideas seemed eccentric in 1983 but are pretty much universally accepted now.
He became a Distinguished Professor of Education and he won the battle for young minds, which is much more effective than bombing public buildings. He and the Weathermen also wanted the poor from around the world to come to the USA and take over the place.
Obama launched his political career with a fund raising gathering in Bill's and Barnadine's sitting room in their upscale house in Chicago. What a small world it is.
That was decades ago. Turning to the present, Edina is a smart suburb of Minneapolis whose School District (education authority) has mandated that henceforth “all teaching and learning experiences” would be viewed through the “lens of racial equity,” and that only “racially conscious” teachers and administrators should be hired. District leaders assured parents this would reduce Edina’s racial achievement gap, which they attributed to “barriers rooted in racial constructs and cultural misunderstandings.” Kindergarten children are now taught about white privilege.
Orlando Flores pulled his son out of Edina High School during his senior year to escape the politicized environment. Flores had fled the Marxist regime in Nicaragua as a kid.
“Years ago, we fled Communism to escape indoctrination, absolutist thinking and restrictions on our freedom of speech,” he told the Daily Standard. “If we see these traits in our schools in America. we must speak out and oppose it.”
There was once a time when States were governed by the philosophy of the Gospel. Then it was that the power and divine virtue of Christian wisdom had diffused itself throughout the laws, institutions, and morals of the people, permeating all ranks and relations of civil society. Then, too, the religion instituted by Jesus Christ, established firmly in befitting dignity, flourished everywhere, by the favour of princes and the legitimate protection of magistrates; and Church and State were happily united in concord and friendly interchange of good offices. The State, constituted in this wise, bore fruits important beyond all expectation, whose remembrance is still, and always will be, in renown, witnessed to as they are by countless proofs which can never be blotted out or ever obscured by any craft of any enemies. Christian Europe has subdued barbarous nations, and changed them from a savage to a civilized condition, from superstition to true worship. It victoriously rolled back the tide of Mohammedan conquest; retained the headship of civilization; stood forth in the front rank as the leader and teacher of all, in every branch of national culture; bestowed on the world the gift of true and many-sided liberty; and most wisely founded very numerous institutions for the solace of human suffering. And if we inquire how it was able to bring about so altered a condition of things, the answer is-beyond all question, in large measure, through religion, under whose auspices so many great undertakings were set on foot, through whose aid they were brought to completion.
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They start them young and continue on throughout college.
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