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By Wirepoints' Mark Glennon: Peter Kirsanow is an African-American member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Last month he sent a letter to Nichols Middle School in Evanston, which employs racially segregated staff meetings among the ways it implemented an "equity audit" completed last year by its school district.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Wow Mark, great article and analysis. I looked at the SEED project website — it’s frightening. And the founder Peggy McIntosh wrote the “seminal” paper in 1988 on White Privilege & Male Privilege. She even earned a PhD in the subject, from Harvard. Here’s her classic paper: https://nationalseedproject.org/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack Notice she demands that all Whites and especially all White Males, learn, understand and acknowledge how privileged they are, and to do all they can to end it. How about this, to end it? All college and job apps, should just have first initial, last name, no checkbox for sex or race,… Read more »
Segregation is alive and well in the democrat party.