Leid Stories - If Not Now, When? - 04/01/13

It’s hard to tell, given the lackluster response from both the elected leadership and the electorate in Black and Latino communities across the country, but there’s a war going on against their children and it is having genocidal effect. The failing educational policies of the Obama administration, mere recasts of the Bush era, are shutting down hundreds of schools, dumbing down children, causing an exodus of skilled teachers, paving the way for the privatization of education, and, worst of all, creating school-to-prison pipelines like never before. Meanwhile, the president, gets a free pass—a misplaced racial solidarity and blind allegiance to the Democratic Party preventing any attempt to “embarrass” him. But if not now, with the stakes so high, when?