Ms. Harris, I am a big supporter of FAIR and like what you wrote except that I was disappointed in the tired, old, baseless claim that the foundation of our nation "was intended to favor only wealthy white men". The Founders and the foundation were hardly perfect, but to think the Founders did not want the new nation to benefit their own wives and daughters, as well as free blacks and those who were not "wealthy" is anti-historical. FAIR has always stood up to such race-baiting, gender-baiting, anti-American rhetoric. I hope it plans to continue to do so.
«an experiment that was intended to favor only wealthy white men would end up benefiting people that its founders never intended.»
I would love to see a decent substantiation of the “wealthy white men” portion of this. Otherwise perhaps an apology for the misstep is probably in order.
Ms. Harris...your January 19, 2024, opening commentary is exactly right on all points...both in terms of the 'crisis' we are in, and yet the fact that hope is not lost. Thank you so much for articulating so well what many of us believe to be true. To answer your final question, "What drives you?", I would simply, and humbly say, exactly what you said...for me, and others of FAIR. Thank you again.
"...something unexpected happened: an experiment that was intended to favor only wealthy white men would end up benefiting people that its founders never intended."
Thank you for this ray of hope. I admit to some class resentment at the FIRE focus on higher ed while in the trenches of K-12 public schools teachers are forced to follow state DEI directives and impressionable children's worldviews are being indelibly molded into white colonizers versus the poc oppressed, the so called "Anti-racist" lens. Not all families can afford alternatives, so the truckers' kids, the cops' kids, the veterans' kids get subjected to this woke brainwashing on their moderate or conservative parents own tax dimes. It's undemocratic and literally anti-American. Please focus on solutions for K-12!
I really felt every part of what you were saying about your reasons. There are so many of us. I hope we continue to find one another. Thank you for sharing.
Ms. Harris, I am a big supporter of FAIR and like what you wrote except that I was disappointed in the tired, old, baseless claim that the foundation of our nation "was intended to favor only wealthy white men". The Founders and the foundation were hardly perfect, but to think the Founders did not want the new nation to benefit their own wives and daughters, as well as free blacks and those who were not "wealthy" is anti-historical. FAIR has always stood up to such race-baiting, gender-baiting, anti-American rhetoric. I hope it plans to continue to do so.
«an experiment that was intended to favor only wealthy white men would end up benefiting people that its founders never intended.»
I would love to see a decent substantiation of the “wealthy white men” portion of this. Otherwise perhaps an apology for the misstep is probably in order.
Ms. Harris...your January 19, 2024, opening commentary is exactly right on all points...both in terms of the 'crisis' we are in, and yet the fact that hope is not lost. Thank you so much for articulating so well what many of us believe to be true. To answer your final question, "What drives you?", I would simply, and humbly say, exactly what you said...for me, and others of FAIR. Thank you again.
"...something unexpected happened: an experiment that was intended to favor only wealthy white men would end up benefiting people that its founders never intended."
Complete bullshit. Woke virtue signaling. Intellectually vapid.
FAIR is, as I predicted, moving left at a rapid pace, and why I won't donate in the future.
Thank you for this ray of hope. I admit to some class resentment at the FIRE focus on higher ed while in the trenches of K-12 public schools teachers are forced to follow state DEI directives and impressionable children's worldviews are being indelibly molded into white colonizers versus the poc oppressed, the so called "Anti-racist" lens. Not all families can afford alternatives, so the truckers' kids, the cops' kids, the veterans' kids get subjected to this woke brainwashing on their moderate or conservative parents own tax dimes. It's undemocratic and literally anti-American. Please focus on solutions for K-12!
I really felt every part of what you were saying about your reasons. There are so many of us. I hope we continue to find one another. Thank you for sharing.