tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post809916763054295409..comments2024-02-24T19:49:45.687-05:00Comments on Schools Matter: Eli Broad and the Clintons: Update of the UpdateJames Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462754705431590571noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-70187946930539817922015-10-04T13:35:22.939-04:002015-10-04T13:35:22.939-04:00This seems related, tangentially perhaps--but some...This seems related, tangentially perhaps--but some of you might remember an episode of The West Wing where the President decides to support vouchers because the DC Mayor does as well as Charlie, the president's "body man" or personal assistant (who is the token Black character of the show who represents the "unique" Black child give the appropriate boost from the Paternalistic White Establishment). The West Wing is the Clinton Admin (as re-imagined, or as re-administered) with many episodes penned by Lawrence O'Donnell, including this one, ironically called, "Full Disclosure." O'Donnell's career in politics, from wikipedia: <br /><br />From 1989 to 1995, he was a key legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.[4] From 1989 to 1991, he served as senior advisor to Moynihan. From 1992 to 1993, he was staff director of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, then chaired by Senator Moynihan. And then from 1993 to 1995, he was staff director of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, once again under Senator Moynihan’s chairmanship. He thus led the staff of the Senate's tax-writing committee during the consideration of President Bill Clinton's first budget, which Congress enacted in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.<br /><br />As I'm sure many of you know, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a man with zero experience with or education about the Black family in America wrote the famous and still controversial, "Report on the Negro Family." This was attacked almost immediately as a "blaming the victim" report in which the absence of the father in "ghetto culture" was a cultural norm and not a consequence of structural (intentional) impoverishment of Black Americans.stormnemesishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11176778911355352751noreply@blogger.com