Milwaukee school officials say they are not paying Black Lives Matter $471,073, even though the 2017 budget lists the item. (AP)
An item in the Milwaukee Public Schools' proposed budget listing $471,073 for Black Lives Matter has critics fuming, but district officials said Monday it is all a misunderstanding.
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Although the budget draft lists the controversial activist group, whose members have called for attacks on police officers, as the recipient of the funds, school officials said much of the money would go to hiring and training three social studies teachers.
“No funding is going to any Black Lives Matter organization,” Tony Tagliavia, a spokesman for Milwaukee Public Schools told FoxNews.com in a statement. "The specific expenditures, which are also outlined in the budget proposal, are for three social studies teachers and staff development for other employees.”
The funding would also pay for a “cultural studies curriculum” which aims to “[ensure] that culturally responsive teaching practices are in place at all schools, enhancing the district vision for student participation in a wide range of after-school activities..."
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Nearly $500,000 of taxpayer dollars in Milwaukee will be going towards the creation of a “cultural studies curriculum” based on the tenets of the Black Lives Matter movement which will pay for not only the salaries of three teachers dedicated to the program, but for training as well.
When asked what role Black Lives Matter would play in the training and curriculum development, school officials said the budget is funding both staff and curriculum that is being developed by staff in conjunction with an advisory council that includes community, parents, educators, staff and students.
"The focus is on racial disparities and inequities in education that must be addressed," the Milwaukee School District official said to FoxNews.com in a written statement.
Kyle Olson, founder of Wisconsin-based schools watchdog Education Action Group, said the Milwaukee School District has a reputation for wasteful spending and poor performance. If Black Lives Matter is involved in training and curriculum, taxpayers and parents alike should be worried, he said.
“All I’ve seen from ‘Black Lives Matter’ is a fomentation of hatred against the police, increased racial division and making excuses for the combination of poor parenting and failed policies from big city liberal politicians,” said Olson.
The story was initially reported by local radio station WISN 1130 AM, which cited the line item in the proposed 2017 school budget listing $471,073 for “Black Lives Matter.”
Perry Chiaramonte is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter at@perrych
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson discussed the overwhelming level of support for the Democrat Party among Black Americans during an interview on Breitbart News Daily interview with host Stephen K. Bannon.
Carson says that relationship, “has yielded more poverty and broken homes and crime and incarceration and it’s completely unnecessary.”
“We need to talk about the effects of out of wedlock birth. How that stops that woman’s education and sends that child into poverty,” he later added.
He also cited how not having a father figure has a deleterious effect on young black man coming up, “so that they don’t have a good appreciation of how to react to authority, which leads to a lot of death, which leads to a lot of incarceration.” He also discussed education and “how you can create your own pathway to success” as not having been emphasized enough within the Black community.
Carson also mentioned faith.
Throwing away faith and family are deleterious to any community and it’s extra devastating on the Black community. And I believe that many people who are trying to cultivate their votes know that and are intentionally destroying those pillars of strength to keep people in a dependent position.
When asked about the harshness of that charge, said Carson, “Well, you look at some of these welfare programs that reward people for having babies out of wedlock …that penalize people who have a family structure. There’s a prime example.”
“In the Black community in this country, there is over $1 trillion in assets. There are less than ten countries in the world that have a trillion dollar GDP. Learn how to turn your own dollars over in your own community a couple times before you send them out to create wealth. Reach back, pull other people up with you – you don’t have to be dependent on anybody else,” he added.
Carson encouraged people to review the policies on his website and insisted that he believes he’ll be competitive in South Carolina and is still in the race to win. The Breitbart News daily interview can be heard below.
If you were at Sleep Train Arena about 90 minutes before tipoff Monday night, you would have thought the Kings were handling major laundry duty.
Before fans entered for the game against the Milwaukee Bucks, T-shirts that were placed on every seat to celebrate the Lunar New Year were being collected and put in large piles. The shirts had a monkey on the front because this is the year of the monkey.
The shirts became an issue because they were to be distributed on the first day of Black History Month, when NBA players and coaches wear commemorative shirts.
“We all need a lesson in sensitivity,” Kings president Chris Granger said. “In an effort to celebrate Chinese New Year, we had some concerns about the T-shirt giveaway, so we pulled them all before the doors opened. Certainly we don’t want to offend anybody, and we acted as soon as we heard the concern.”
Center DeMarcus Cousins was one of the first people to raise concern with team officials, and soon thereafter, the shirts were collected.
Former NBA player and current Milwaukee TV analyst Marques Johnson applauded Cousins for speaking up and the Kings for removing the shirts.
“Good move Kings,” Johnson tweeted. “Year of Monkey Tees on 1st day of Black History Month not a good look. Thanks DeMarcus.”
More lineup shuffling – The Kings were without two starters: Cousins (sprained left ankle) and guard Ben McLemore (sprained right wrist).
“I think they’re both day-to-day” coach George Karl said. “As you know, I don’t spend a lot of time on injuries. I get the hands that are dealt.”
The Kings entered Monday 1-7 in games without Cousins. The win came in November at Milwaukee.
McLemore never had missed a game in his three-year career, a 211-game span. He said he was injured during Saturday’s loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.
Cousins also was hurt at Memphis. After rolling his ankle in the first half, Cousins stayed in the game, only to be re-injured when Marc Gasol rolled into it late in the game.
Karl used his 17th different starting lineup of the season Monday, starting Kosta Koufos for Cousins and Marco Belinelli for McLemore.
Fewer options – Cousins is the Kings’ leading scorer and primary option on offense, so his absence forced Karl to adjust the game plan.
“Our playbook isn’t extensive,” Karl said with a chuckle. “When you have to take Cuz’s actions out, all of a sudden it’s short. Had to put a few new plays in this morning.”
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Brian P SmythYes
minimum wage was instituted by the democrats to keep the black
minorities from ever achieving success. You see if there is no racist
in America then there will be no more democrat party. So you have to
keep people down and then bus them in from other countries that will be
completely dependent on the govt.
REPUBLICANS
have NO PLANS NO IDEAS Just to talk about the PRESIDENT, THAT is not
helping anyone , OH BEN CARSON if you think those OLD WHITE PEOPLE -
MEN would ever nominate you for
anything other than talk about PRESIDENT KEEP DREAMING , AFTER his
term is over, SEE how long they keep you, look M. Steele H CAIN only
when they want you to say bad things about President
WAKE
UP WAKE UP BLACK and BROWN AMERICA ,SUPREME COURT decision was to
make sure a person of color will never be PRESIDENT ONE of OLD WHITE
MEN said it OUT LOUD. WE DO NOT have
JUSTICE !!!!!!SUPREME COURT it's not court , it's another office
for REPUBLICANS,,. IT is NOT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE like it was
suppose to be . VOTE VOTE VETO WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!!!!!!!
Brian P SmythWho
do you think supported the KKK or Jim Crow and tried to suppress the
black man/woman ?? Who do you think tried to keep you from having a gun
for protection ??? YEA THE DEMOCRATS. Lady stop drinking the cool aid
and have a glass of freedom from the Tea Party an all inclusive party
that fights for your freedom. Sick Bias
An alleged bully was in for a major surprise after she decided to
violently attack a boy on her school bus. While the victim initially
sat helplessly as she punched him in the face, pulled his hair and
slapped him, his eventual reaction stunned the young woman.
Image credit: YouTube
In video of the attack that was captured on a cell phone and
subsequently uploaded to YouTube, the vicious assault unfolds as another
boy begs off-camera for the girl to stop.
But she doesn’t listen.
As the berating and beating continues, the victim desperately tries to shield and protect himself, but to no avail.
But then something changes. When the alleged bully starts kicking the
boy in the head, he springs to his feet and starts fighting back.
The tables instantaneously turn, as he grabs the her hair and puts
her in a headlock, at one point seemingly dragging her over one of the
seats; choking sounds can be heard.
The scene isn’t easy to watch.
“Get his hand off my eye please,” the girl says in the midst of the
brawl, a hint of desperation replacing her once-aggressive tone.
Another boy — presumably the girl’s brother — becomes dismayed by
what’s unfolding and he steps in to try and stop the bullying victim
from getting his revenge.
“Oh hell! Get the — get the — f***! Holy s***! Get the f*** off of my
f***ing sister!,” he says, as he tries to physically intervene.
Eventually, the brawl ends and the girl who seemingly started it all
looks completely stunned by her victim’s response. The boy who countered
her attack then asks if she is “ok.”
According to a column from a UK PAPER,
(since no one in the mainstream media here would dare to criticize Dear
Leader in such a manner), former Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey would
like everyone to know the truth about Obama.
And it's ugly.
Kerrey
said that Obama simply isn't up to the job of "bringing liberals and
conservatives to the table to rescue America's slowly choking
entitlement programs."
And that was just for starters. Kerrey also
said that Obama "had to know he was misleading the audience" during his
push for Obamacare. He said the White House clearly understood the
numbers, and that Republicans did a bad job of explaining the Democratic
strategy. (No surprise there - this is why we're always complaining
about how much the GOP sucks at messaging.) Republicans should have
said, "Hey - young people - you know why Obama wants you to sign up for
healthcare insurance so bad? Because in all likelihood, you won't need
it, which means you'll be paying for everyone else's claims."
Because
that's the truth. Obama doesn't care about young people. He just cares
about their votes. This is why he's Between Two Ferns and best pals
with Jay-Z.
Kerrey didn't stop there. He said that the worst lie
Democrats told about Obamacare is that "everybody deserves high quality,
affordable healthcare." He said, "Excuse me? Uh - I don't know if
you've heard about the bell curve? If I've got 1000 doctors, 100 are
great, and 100 are not so good. It's impossible! And affordable?
Forget about it."
Kerrey also said that one of Obama's biggest
mistakes was pushing Obamacare at ALL when the country was still so
economically fragile. He said, "I wouldn't have done health care. I
think the big mistake was to say, 'Whew! We've got the stimulus done,
okay, the economy's going to come bouncing back in 12 months - let's do
healthecare.' Only the economy didn't come bouncing back. We're
teetering on the edge of going out of business through most of 2009, and
I think you need to just keep driving, driving, driving on the economy,
and make it as bipartisan as possible."
Yeah. Obama basically
did the exact opposite of that, which is why our economy still sucks
monkeyballs. (Sidenote to hypersensitive liberals: If you think
"monkeyballs" is racist in that context, it's because YOU ARE RACIST.)
Kerrey
understands that fundamentally, entitlement programs mean we're
"robbing from the future to pay for the past. And we're shoveling more
and more money to people over the age of 65." Why more people don't
understand this very basic concept, I have no idea.
Kerrey said
the only way to break the congressional roadblocks is to have a real
president, which he acknowledged we simply don't have. And part of
Obama's problem is that he has an "inflated sense of Americans' appetite
for programs to correct what the White House calls income equality,
through new taxes and other income-shifting initiatives that transfer
wealth from the rich to the poor." Kerrey said, "After the 2012
election, what the president needed was somebody to say, 'Mr. President,
I'm thrilled you won. You stand for all the things I support. But
honestly, you won this election because you sucked less than Romney.'"
OUCH. All the way around, even.
He revealed this information to Time Magazine this week.
We have numerous people that we know participated in the
Benghazi attacks affiliated with al-Qaeda that are still on the
battlefield. We have the capacity to get them but there’s no planning to
get them. We have other serious al-Qaeda threats that normally we would
take off the battlefield, but because of this Administration’s more
kinder, gentler approach we have not done that.
If a Picture is worth a thousand words then this picture has to be worth at least a thousand words with years of pain and emotion turmoil. Do not forget how this began, Liberal Progressives wanted to protect you from yourself and others by taking your guns away from you.
The Rodriguez family's lawyer released the video of the incident during a press conference on Tuesday.
MOORE, Oklahoma -
A lawyer for the family
of a man, who died outside the Moore Warren Movie Theater while in
police custody, has released a video of the incident.
Luis Rodriguez died earlier this month after a confrontation with police outside the theater in Moore. 2/15/2014 Related Story: Family Says Moore Police Beat Father To Death
Police say the 44-year-old Rodriguez became uncooperative when
officers questioned him about a possible domestic disturbance. Police
handcuffed the man. 2/18/2014 Related Story: Moore Police Hold News Conference Concerning In-Custody Death
Rodriguez's wife and daughter say police then started beating him. Autopsy results are pending.
The Rodriguez family's lawyer released a cellphone video of the
incident and a statement at a Tuesday news conference in Oklahoma City.
The video shows 44-year-old Luis Rodriguez on his stomach on the
ground outside the theater with five police officers restraining him.
One officer holds Rodriguez's head down and the others are on top of him
as they handcuff his hands behind his back.
Rodriguez's wife, who shot the video, is later heard screaming and
asking if Rodriguez is dead as he is placed on a stretcher. We have attached the video to this story. Warning: the video may be considered graphic to some viewers.
"He was not involved in the disturbance. However, when police came,
they focused their attention on Luis. Taking him face down onto the
pavement, pepper-spraying his mouth, nose and eyes and putting the
weight of five grown men on top of him, and then handcuffing him as he
was unconscious or already dead," said Michael Brooks-Jimenez, attorney
for the Rodriguez family.
Moore Police Chief Jerry Stillings said he stands behind his
officers' actions and said he did not see anything inappropriate on the
cell phone video as far as his officers' actions.
There is security camera footage from the Warren Theater. However, that has not yet been made available for us to see.
OSBI has taken over the investigation into the death.
Police say three officers involved in the incident are on administrative leave.
The New York Times: There have been times when the CNN host Piers Morgan didn’t
seem to like America very much — and American audiences have been more
than willing to return the favor. Three years aftertaking over for
Larry King, Mr. Morgan has seen the ratings for “Piers Morgan Live” hit
some new lows, drawing a fraction of viewers compared with competitors
at Fox News and MSNBC.
It’s
been an unhappy collision between a British television personality who
refuses to assimilate — the only football he cares about is round and
his lectures on guns were rife with contempt — and a CNN audience that
is intrinsically provincial. After all, the people who tune into a cable
news network are, by their nature, deeply interested in America.
CNN’s president, Jeffrey Zucker,
has other problems, but none bigger than Mr. Morgan and his plum 9 p.m.
time slot. Mr. Morgan said last week that he and Mr. Zucker had been
talking about the show’s failure to connect and had decided to pull the
plug, probably in March.
Crossing
an ocean for a replacement for Larry King, who had ratings problems of
his own near the end, was probably not a great idea to begin with. For a
cable news station like CNN, major stories are like oxygen. When
something important or scary happens in America, many of us have an
immediate reflex to turn on CNN. When I find Mr. Morgan telling me what
it all means, I have a similar reflex to dismiss what he is saying. It
is difficult for him to speak credibly on significant American events
because, after all, he just got here.
I
received a return call from Mr. Morgan and was prepared for an endless
argument over my assumptions. Not so. His show, he conceded, was not
performing as he had hoped and was nearing its end.
“It’s
been a painful period and lately we have taken a bath in the ratings,”
he said, adding that although there had been times when the show
connected in terms of audience, slow news days were problematic.
“Look,
I am a British guy debating American cultural issues, including guns,
which has been very polarizing, and there is no doubt that there are
many in the audience who are tired of me banging on about it,” he said.
“That’s run its course and Jeff and I have been talking for some time
about different ways of using me.”
Mr.
Morgan said that his show, along with much of the rest of CNN, had been
imprisoned by the news cycle and that he was interested in doing fewer
appearances to greater effect — big, major interviews that would be
events in themselves. Although a change has long been rumored, it was
the first time that both he, and the CNN executives I talked to,
acknowledged that his nightly show was on the way out. Plans for a
replacement at the 9 o’clock hour are still underway, but Mr. Morgan and
the network are in talks about him remaining at CNN in a different
role.
Mr.
Zucker, the former chief of NBC, inherited Mr. Morgan from Jonathan
Klein, his predecessor, but it is now his problem to fix. In the year he
has been there, CNN has introduced promising shows around the edges and
will be unveiling documentaries along the lines of the very successful
“Blackfish” to run on Thursday in the 10 p.m. hour.
But
the chronic troubles of prime-time remain. Sometime before the network
“upfront” events in April, when advertisers buy commercial time for the
fall season, Mr. Zucker needs to signal how he will fix CNN’s prime-time
problem, and that begins with Mr. Morgan, whose contract ends in
September.
Mr.
Morgan has some significant skills that do translate across platforms
and cultures. While working as a newspaper editor and television
personality in Britain, he was involved in a number of controversies,
but he developed a reputation as a talented, probing interviewer. In his
current role, he has shown an ability not only to book big guests —
former President Bill Clinton, Warren Buffett, the real Wolf of Wall
Street among them — but also to dig in once they are on set.
“I
think I can credibly do news and the ratings reflect that, but it is
not really the show that I set out to do,” he told me. “There are all
kinds of people who can do news here. I’d like to do work — interviews
with big celebrities and powerful people — that is better suited to what
I do well and fit with what Jeff is trying to do with the network.”
Old
hands in the television news business suggest that there are two things
a presenter cannot have: an accent or a beard. Mr. Morgan is clean
shaven and handsome enough, but there are tells in his speech — the way
he says the president’s name for one thing (Ob-AA-ma) — that suggest
that he is not from around here.
There are other tells as well. On Friday morning, criticizing the decision to dismiss a cricket player, he tweeted,
“I’m sure @StuartBroad8 is right and KP’s sacking will ‘improve
performance’ of the England team. Look forward to seeing this at T20
WC.” Mr. Morgan might want to lay off the steady cricket references if
he is worried about his credibility with American audiences. (His
endless trolling of his critics on Twitter did not exactly help,
either.)
People
might point to Simon Cowell as a man with an accent and a penchant for
slashing discourse that Americans loved, but Mr. Cowell is dealing with
less-than-spontaneous musical performances, not signal events in the
American news narrative. There was, of course, the counterexample of David Frost,
who did important work in news, but Mr. Frost did popular special
reports and was not a chronic presence in American living rooms.
Mr.
Morgan, who was chosen in spite of that fact that he had never done a
live show, had the misfortune of sliding into the loafers of Mr. King,
who, for all his limitations, was a decent and reliable stand-in for the
average Joe.
In
a sense, Mr. Morgan is a prisoner of two islands: Britain and
Manhattan. While I may share his feelings about the need for additional
strictures on guns, having grown up in the Midwest, I know that many
people come by their guns honestly and hold onto them dearly for sincere
reasons.
Mr.
Morgan’s approach to gun regulation was more akin to King George III,
peering down his nose at the unruly colonies and wondering how to bring
the savages to heel. He might have wanted to recall that part of the
reason the right to bear arms is codified in the Constitution is that
Britain was trying to disarm the citizenry at the time.
He regrets none of it, but clearly understands his scolding of “stupid” opponents of gun laws was not everyone’s cup of tea.
“I’m
in danger of being the guy down at the end of the bar who is always
going on about the same thing,” he said. He added that he was sure there
were plenty of people in the heartland angry “about this British guy
telling them how to lead their lives and what they should do with their
guns.”
In
the current media age, no one is expected to be a eunuch, without
values or beliefs, but Mr. Morgan’s lecturing on the evils of guns have
clanked hard against the CNN brand, which, for good or ill, is built on
the middle way.
We
don’t look for moral leadership from CNN, or from a British host on a
rampage. Guns, along with many other great and horrible things, are knit
into the fabric of this country. There are folkways peculiar to America
that Mr. Morgan is just learning, including the fact that if you want
to stick out, you first have to work on fitting in.
She is out playing to the low information voter.... "hey yall im just
like you so we are cool together, right" NO you are an evil extension
of Progressive Socialist Democrats attempting to destroy American way of
Life Liberty and the Freedom to do as we wish in a personal responsible
manner. I can take care of me and mine and do not need you to look
after my children or family thank you very much now go to some other
country that wants to be under your stinking regime.
1) The Founding Fathers were generally religious, gun-toting
small government fanatics who were so far to the Right that they’d make
Ann Coulter look like Jimmy Carter.
2)
The greatest evil this country has ever committed isn’t slavery; it’s
killing more than 50 million innocent children via abortion.
3) Conservatives are much more compassionate than liberals and all you have to do to prove it is look at all the studies showing that conservatives give more of their money to charity than liberals do.
4) When the Founding Fathers were actually around, there were
official state religions and the Bible was used as a textbook in
schools. The so-called “wall of separation between church and state” has
absolutely nothing to do with the Constitution and everything to do
with liberal hostility to Christianity.
5) The biggest problem with our economy today is Barack Obama. His
demonization of successful people, his driving up gas prices, his
regulatory overload and threats to increase taxes have terrified
businesses into hunkering down, refusing to spend money, and declining
to hire new people. Replacing him would do more than any government
policy to spur economic growth.
6)
Not only are conservatives more patriotic than liberals, but most
American liberals “love” America in about the same way that a
wife-beater loves his wife.
7) Out of every 100 cries of “Racism” you hear these days, 99 are motivated by nothing other than politics.
8) Anyone paying income taxes is certainly paying his “fair share” — and then some — compared to the people who pay nothing.
10) If we can ask people to present an ID to buy alcohol, drive a
car, or get on an airplane, then asking them to present identification
to vote is a no-brainer.
11) There’s absolutely nothing that the government does smarter,
better, or more efficiently than the private market with roughly
equivalent resources.
12) The biggest problem with education in this country is liberals.
They fight vouchers, oppose merit pay, refuse to get rid of terrible
teachers, and bend over backwards to keep poor kids trapped in failing
schools.
13) Fascism, socialism, and communism are all left-wing movements that
have considerably more in common with modern liberalism than modern conservatism.
14) The Democratic Party was behind slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow
laws. It was also the party of Margaret Sanger, George Wallace, and Bull
Connor. It has ALWAYS been a racist party. Even today, white liberals
support Affirmative Action and racial set-asides because they still
believe black Americans are too inferior to go up against whites on an
even playing field.
15) A man with good morals who falls short and becomes a hypocrite is
still a far better man than a liberal who can never be called a
hypocrite because he has no morals at all.
16) The most dire threat to America’s future and prosperity in the
last 150 years hasn’t been the Nazis, the Soviets, or Al-Qaeda;, it’s
the spending and overreach of our own government.
17) Greed isn’t someone wanting to keep more of what he earns; it’s
people demanding a greater share of money that someone else earns.
18) Most of the time in American politics, the liberal “victim” is
really a bad guy who is absolutely delighted by the opportunity to
pretend to be “offended.”
19) Jesus Christ was not a conservative, a liberal, or a politician.
He was also not a capitalist or a socialist. Still, you can say this:
Jesus drew sharp lines about what’s right and wrong, He wasn’t tolerant
of what the Bible categorizes as sinful behavior, and there’s absolutely
no question that He would adamantly oppose abortion and gay marriage.
20) When you demand that other people fund your sexual escapades by
buying your contraception, your sex life becomes their business.
So if you say, "on a Facebook thread in February of last year. A fellow online gamer was provoking him, and caused Carter to say things he would come to regret. Carter said, “I’m fucked in the head alright, I think I’ma SHOOT UP A KINDERGARTEN… AND WATCH THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT RAIN DOWN… AND EAT THE BEATING HEART OF ONE OF THEM.” Then you will do 8 years in prison and be raped by bubba and have a live destroyed.... WHERE THE HELL DO WE LIVE ?????
American Black Slavery alive and well on the Liberal Progressive Democrat Plantations.
Who Do You Serve ?
You
better take this as a sign that Progressives are correct and we need to
put mandates on the Globe to keep these threats down so that no child
has to die at the hands of assault weapons whether military or
non-military and that we need to tax the rich so that we can create the
utopia we all know to be self evident i.e. the "Garden of Eden" and if
you disagree with me you are a radical racist and you hate America and
the beauty of the utopian society.
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