If Dara made him make shit up, The Black Commentator should make his head explode
Now, why would somebody decide to tell folks I said something I didn't?
P6 has a snarky report on Project 21's recent interview on C-SPAN.
He suggests that blacks are not led astray, hoodwinked or bamboozled by white liberal politics. That is putatively because political organizations like the NAACP are directed by blacks. So he finds it credible when Mfume suggests that Project 21 is a make believe black organization. Why? Because it takes money from white people.
I'm really not in the mood to return snark for snark. But I wonder how it is that any black people could possibly be possesed of their own minds if they are willing to accept assistance from whites. I wonder if Kwesi knows whether or not the pipes that bring water into his house were laid by blacks or whites. Because if he has been drinking white water for all of these years, I don't know that we can trust his opinion, as a black man.
By the way, wasn't there some white guy who went by the name of Springarn? I heard he had something to do with the NAACP. No maybe my memory is bad. Maybe it was Moskowitz or something like that. Nah. Couldn't be.
What this has to do with the post he linked to is beyond me.
In the comments Darryl mentioned the lead article in The Black Commentator this week: Bush's Black Attack Dogs. Typical strongly worded opinions with well documented support. I thought I'd quote some of that, see what sort of thing folks attribute to me this time. Just an experiment…
The sham of GOP Black voter outreach is over and the true Republican mission has begun: suppress the African American vote, by any means possible. To that end, the Bush men have enlisted the mercenary services of Black front groups invented by rightwing foundations in the Nineties to push for school vouchers and other elements of the Republican agenda. These bought-and-paid-for servants of the Hard Right took to the airwaves in August calling themselves People of Color United and spending a rich white Republican man’s money to attack Democratic presidential nominee JohnKerry as “rich, white and wishy-washy.”
Virginia Walden-Ford, the operative who placed the attack ads on Black-oriented radio stations in the “battlefield” states of Pennsylvania, Missouri, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, is for allpractical purposes a paid agent of the Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a founding board member of the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), the pro-school vouchers group conceived, birthed and jump-started with at least $2 million in 1999 by the far-right Bradley and Walton Family Foundations (Wal-Mart). Since George Bush assumed office, BAEO and a host of its vouchers/privatization siblings – each the incestuous spawn of the Right’s foundation funding network – have collected over $77 million dollars in grants from Secretary Rod Paige’s Education Department. In effect, Virginia Walden-Ford’s BAEO – which received $1.3 million in federal funds – has been “graduated” to a Bush administration functionary, while continuing to be subsidized by the Walton family, Bradley, and other far-right moneybags. These Black attack dogs are well fed.
Of course I wrote on this before but The Black Commentator didn't just react, as I did. They did some digging.
Walden-Ford’s personal fiefdom, DC Parents for School Choice, which shares a phone line with BAEO, receives money directly fromthe Bradley Foundation – $125,000 in 1999-2001, according to journalistBarbara Miner. Writing in ShepherdExpress in Milwaukee – an attack ad target city – Miner reported that Walden-Ford admitted also sharing Washington office space with Alan Keyes, the loony, perennial Black Republican candidate for office currently running against Barack Obama for U.S. Senator from Illinois. Unleashed, Walden-Ford is rabid. Miner writes:
As part of last year's debate over a federal voucher plan for Washington, D.C., her DC Parents group ran an ad comparing Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) to Bull Connor, who set dogs against civil rights protesters. Another ad compared Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) to arch-segregationist George Wallace.
Walden-Ford’s previous boss, Robert L. Woodson, Sr., founder of the Washington-based National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (NCNE), served as an advisor to Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1996. Woodson’s NCNE has received millions of dollars from rightwing foundations over the years, including Bradley. This year, the Bush men gave NCNE a half million dollar Compassion Fund grant to identify and develop faith-based organizations to bring into the administration’s orbit. The Bradley Foundation invented the faith-based concept for the Republicans, as a strategy to bribe Black preachers into switching parties. Walden-Ford and her mentor, Woodson, are both deeply embedded in the Bradley-Bush matrix. As we said, this is an incestuous bunch.
