(NAME-MCE) Is Colin Powell a good choice for Sec'y of Ed?

[Scott Ritchie]

Maybe we don't have to worry.  Powell is last on the list published by  
The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/free/2008/11/6631n.htm 
).


On Nov 8, 2008, at 4:27 PM, sheila hamanaka wrote:

>
>
> Sorry, I seem to have lost the posts but someone mentioned that  
> Obama is considering Colin Powell for Sec'y of Education, and then  
> another person asked if she thought he was a good choice.
>
> My unsolicited opinion is, no.
>
> Colin Powell defended Muslims, but is it possible to forget that he  
> lied to the public about weapons of mass destruction, a lie that  
> contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Muslims? The  
> Muslim kids killed by US bombs or sanctions will never get to be  
> President. If they were your kids, you would want him arrested and  
> tried for aiding and abetting war crimes alongside Bush and Cheney,  
> not given a plum job.
>
> Powell is a military man. When I was at CCNY during the Vietnam War  
> students around the country protested the presence of the ROTC on  
> campus. The military should be keep out of schools, like religion.  
> Why make a retired general the head of education when there are so  
> many qualified EDUCATORS out there?
>
> And, the choice should ideally be an antiracist educator. Antiracism  
> is more than one statement. It's a commitment to dismantling  
> institutional racism, and the US military (and the State Dept) is  
> nothing if not the enforcer of US institutional racist oppression  
> abroad aka colonialism aka imperialism aka US corporate interests.
>
> The military subsists on a poverty draft. That's more racial  
> injustice. Dishonest recruiters hold out college as a lure to  
> desperate kids who want an education. I don't recall Powell speaking  
> out against that. Forget the loans. Stop the wars and pay kids to go  
> to college. That would be an antiracist higher education policy.
>
>
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Scott Ritchie
Ph.D. Candidate & Teaching Assistant
Language and Literacy Education
The University of Georgia
301M Aderhold Hall
Athens, GA 30602