K K K TO THE CORE

 

BRING IN THE SHEEP

 

Rex Sinquefield

Controversial Ku Klux Klan Public School Statement

At a speaking engagement held at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO. Sinquefield made the following statements concerning the public school system: "You know what. There was a column written, and I hope I don’t offend anyone. There was a published column by a man named Ralph Voss, who was a former judge in Missouri. He now owns and writes for a newspaper in Central Missouri called the Unterrified Democrat. What a name. And it's in Osage County, Mo. And he starts off something like this: He said a long time ago, decades ago, the Ku Klux Klan got together and said, “How can we really hurt the African American children permanently? How can we ruin their lives?” And what they designed was the public school system." The statement has drawn strong rebukes from the Missouri teacher's union.

Sinquefield and his wife, Jeanne, and their children, donate funds to a wide variety of organizations through the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. Among the areas of interest of the foundation are education, autism research, the Boy Scouts of America, Covenant House of Missouri and the arts.

In 2009, Sinquefield and his wife, Jeanne, through the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, gave $1 million to the University of Missouri’s School of Music. Those funds were used to create the New Music Initiative, an effort designed to encourage young people to become composers and to support new works of music composition.

keeping blacks suppressed. During a lecture at Lindenwood College, Sinquefield explained his opposition to teacher tenure this way: MNEA President Chris Guinther called on politicians who accept the large donations provided by Sinquefield to return them. "To call the work of educators in public schools KKK conspiracy shows how out of touch billionaire Rex ," Guinther said. "This is a slap in the face of every educator who has worked tirelessly in a public school to improve the lives of Missouri 's children. Rex Sinquefield needs to explain himself and apologize to all students, parents and Missourians." For the record, the idea that government, state and national, should fund public schools is older than Klan, and in fact, older than the U.S. Constitution. The first national government to set education policy for the states was the Continental Congress, operation under the Articles of Confederation.

Do you know the only thing that a lie and the truth have in common?  They both hurt just as much when spoken.  We prove this point every single time someone black or white makes a statement reflecting the state that we are in as a race.  Rather it is Ann Coulter, Dr. Cornel West, or Rex Sinquefield.  We just can’t stand to hear those words, “THE SYSYEM IN PLACE HAS FAILED YOU,” and someone need to be held accountable, but it want be you.  Where was all of these so call dedicated and devoted teacher at, when they were sending troubled students to Martin Luther King Jr. High, that they deemed border line drop outs.  They were consider too slow in the head and no one gave a damn, and they showed it  by passing them along from one grade to the next until their number was up and they were over the age limit.  Too many of them could barely read or do simple math.  I was there, where the hell where you?  Soon as that yellow school bus dropped them off they couldn’t wait to get across the street to the Sears Building and Sears couldn’t wait to move out of the neighborhood, because they spent more time over there than in the class rooms.  Why did Malcolm X, ask, “WHY WOULD YOU TURN YOUR CHILDREN OVER TO THE ENIMY TO BE TAUGHT?”  Isn’t it just funny when it’s our own that seem to be hurting us the most? Yet once appointed time when we where being taught by our own we excelled because we had to prove that we were better or an equal. What happen to that passion for learning and teaching and being held accountable for that child not knowing his or her ABC’s.

Giving back Mr. Rex Sinquefiel’s grant, who do you think will be the one’s to suffer from this like of judgment?  He’s white and so is Christine Guinther.  Therefore I don’t think she were affected by his remark the same as what we should have been, which she pointed out.  Once again the blacks looked on as not being there, while he could have very well been speaking the truth.  As they say, “The proof is in the pudding” and we got plenty to go around.  I bet you think she was speaking up on our behalf don’t you?

 

 

Guinther is a staff development coordinator for the Francis Howell School District in St. Charles County.  She assumed the top leadership position as MNEA's full-time president on Aug. 1, 2007, after serving six years as MNEA vice president.

"At a time when we're having really big challenges and problems in public education, I find it troubling that our Senate has taken this much time to debate something that is not proven to help children," said Chris Guinther, president of the Missouri National Education Association.  So there you have it.  For THINKING OUT LOUD, I’m E. L. PLEASANT

 

 

 

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