166 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographychoice-charter school route, and the lunatic left community control model peddled by Ayers with its
eternal petty conflicts, quality education would never stand a chance. Real progress required
resources, the rebuilding of neighborhoods, and the hope of good jobs on the horizon – all things
which the US ruling financier elite had proven itself incapable of providing.
Diamond adds that ‘...it was not clear that the LSCs were helping students learn more. In 1995 a
new law would pass in Springfield re-centralizing power, but this time in the hands of the mayor
(Richard Daley) through a new CEO for the school system. This gutted the power of the LSCs. Bill
Ayers opposed this re-centralization (I believe because Ayers saw the LSCs as a potential means by
which to impose his authoritarian “social justice” education agenda). To lead the Challenge Ayers
would certainly have wanted a board chairman who was sympathetic with his goals. That suggests
that Obama and he had already established a relationship that convinced Ayers that Obama was the
right man for this key leadership role. As I have said here, it is possible Ayers and Obama first met
during the campaign for the creation of the LSCs in the wake of the 1987 teachers’ union strike, an
event that galvanized community and business support in Chicago for the LSC idea. Both Ayers and
Obama were active in that campaign for the LSCs.’ The self-defeating counterinsurgency strategy
of community control had, of course, been what Obama was selling when he worked for the
Alinskyite wreckers at the Gamaliel Foundation. But there was also a Trilateral hand guiding his
destiny, as we must never forget.^58
WILL OBAMA DEMAND REPARATIONS?
Other than Ayers, who qualifies as a top racist FOB (Friend of Barky), Senator Obama’s main
education advisor is Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, a prominent national theoretician of
education policy who teaches at Stanford University’s School of Education. Darling-Hammond
operates through something called the Forum for Education and Democracy (FED). Darling-
Hammond’s program for education reform starts off with the need to ‘Repay the “education debt.”’
This is a concept which is left vague, but which could very easily serve as a cloak for a demand for
reparations for the black community only, a demand sure to create a violent paroxysm of racial
tension and indeed race war if it were to gather strength under the present conditions of economic
breakdown. The education debt, says Professor Darling-Hammond, is a concept invented by
Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, of the University of Wisconsin and a “convener” together with
Professor Darling-Hammond of the FED. It is aimed at replacing the concept that has dominated
much education reform discussion in recent years called the “achievement gap.” As Darling-
Hammond has written: “[T]he problem we face is less an ‘achievement gap’ than an educational
debt that has accumulated over centuries of denied access to education and employment, reinforced
by deepening poverty and resource inequalities in schools. Until American society confronts the
accumulated educational debt owed to these students and takes responsibility for the inferior
resources they receive, [Gloria] Ladson-Billings argues, children of color and of poverty will
continue to be left behind.”^59 This might well serve as a cloak for reparations demands.
The suspicions grow when we find Ladson-Billings quoting veteran foundation race operative
Randall Robinson in an article on educational debt in Educational Researcher (Oct. 2005), where
we read: “What is it that we might owe to citizens who historically have been excluded from social
benefits and opportunities? Randall Robinson (2000) states: ‘No nation can enslave a race of people
for hundreds of years, set them free bedraggled and penniless, pit them, without assistance in a
hostile environment, against privileged victimizers, and then reasonably expect the gap between the
heirs of the two groups to narrow. Lines, begun parallel and left alone, can never touch. (p. 74)’”
The book by Randall Robinson which is cited here is The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks,