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

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Perhaps this is a time when NAME or NAME members can, on a mass  scale, raise 
Mr. Powell's and President-elect Obama's awareness of  our organization and 
ask how we, as an organization, through our own  organizations, or as 
individual NAME members, can help? Or perhaps share  our insights and offer suggestions 
as to what works?
 
When NAME marched at the NMAI opening, people actually applauded  us.  Their 
support surprised and made me  proud.  Later, one of the keynote speakers 
mentioned how  critical multicultural education is. Maybe there's a window of 
opportunity  here for us to help the kids and America's educational system? We 
already  know people are listening and care. 
 
Just some thoughts...
 
Gina Boltz
Director, Native Village Publications
_http://www.nativevillage.org_ (http://www.nativevillage.org) 
Director, Youth Forum for International Council of 13 Indigenous  Grandmothers
_http://www.nativevillage.org_ (http://www.nativevillage.org) 
Secretary, Link Center Foundation
http://linkcenterfoundation.org
 
 
In a message dated 11/10/2008 6:50:12 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
sritch at gmail.com writes:



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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