Homeschooling, school vouchers, accountability, all are ways to combat ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations’ when it comes to educating our children to become successful and productive members of society.  That goal isn’t a race thing, its a human thing.   The demographics of ‘the educated’ can, however, be described in racial and ethnic terms, but only at the risk of being counterproductive.  There is evidence now that homeschooling among Black families is on the rise, the results of which can only be good for the kids, the families, and society.

What matters is what counts, and what counts is our children, not brick and mortar schools, not teachers unions, not bureaucrats.

ref: A new homeschooling movement led by Black families.

Aside from the arrogance of this party in, by everyone’s estimation, taking Black voters for granted, now they are tightening control and telling Blacks that they aren’t liberal enough?  

This repulsive thought aside, all I can say to Black voters is, the republican party welcomes you.   Politics aside, your vote is not decided by party affiliation.   The Florida panhandle is a good example.  The legacy democrats down here are more conservative than their party leadership and vote with less emphasis on the D than on the issues.   It’s not so much that there aren’t democrats down here that the party talks about writing off the south.  It’s that a lot of democrats down here will vote for a republican or a republican policy.  They were left behind long before Joe Lieberman.