Look at these racist NIMBYs line up in Ann Arbor to pay lip service to anti-racism as they plot ways to preserve their "neighborhood character." #a2council
Bank CEO Stephen Ranzini said he suffered worse racism than Black people growing up in the 80s at a New Hampshire prep school & at Yale because he was German and Italian. His dad bought him that bank in 1988 when he was 23. He also said he has no issue with people loving Hitler.
His good friend, Council Member Jeff Hayner votes to block affordable housing in Ann Arbor in order to help his homeowner friends hoard wealth while making housing too expensive for Ann Arbor workers.
Housing can be affordable or can be an investment, it can't be both.
Here are the types of shell games Jeff Hayner likes to play with affordable housing:
Here is a NIMBY City Council in California saying Jeff Hayner's quiet part out loud for us:
(In Cupertino, a city where the average house costs over 2.4 million dollars, and rent is unaffordable to anybody making less than $125,000 a year.)
#a2council Member Jeff Hayner also lied about me being paid to highlight how deceitful and damaging he & his supporters are for workers in Ann Arbor. He also pushed Trump's pet #COVID19 "cure" hydroxychloroquine, and promotes cigarettes. He should not be in a position of power.
Ann Arbor Council Member Jeff Hayner also follows and shares gun nut anti-vaxxer posts on Facebook. It makes a little bit more sense if you know that he is a gun "enthusiast" himself. But it is still very strange.
There is special meeting of the #a2council on Monday, June 29 at 7PM where I'll be dialing in to ask Jeff Hayner to step down. He most likely won't unless there are more voices present, but this needs to be on public record. You can join/watch: A2gov.org/watchCTN
Dial in for commenting: 8778535247 Extension: 9589052243 #a2council
Get Anti-CRT #FascismTourists to agree with these Paulo Freire quotes, and then tell them who he is (a radical Brazilian educator who pretty much advocated for revolution in and through the schools), a thread
"There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom."
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"If the great popular masses are without a more critical understanding of how society functions, it is not because they are naturally incapable of it—to my view—but on account of the precarious conditions in which they live and survive, where they are “forbidden to know.”"
-PoH
These anti-CRT, anti-mask weirdos went absolutely nuclear because they weren't allowed to speak twice during public comment at the Grand Ledge Public Schools board meeting.
"If you're going to follow Robert's rules, you have to follow all of Robert's rules!" He shouted from the audience without being recognized.
I've got so much of this on film. And there is so much more. This was just the first one I grabbed to tease Twitter with.
Don't get me wrong, the majority of the comments tonight were positive and defended teachers from accusations of them being the collective reincarnation of Joseph Stalin, but they were absolutely interrupted frequently by the typhoid brigade.
There are communities being targeted by Right wing groups across the country over CRT. Last week, the DC PACs may have picked the wrong one in Grand Ledge, MI. We'll find out tomorrow.
JC Huizenga, founder of the National Heritage Academy charter school franchise, was just at a GRPS meeting about a scholarship asking and learning about the term BIPOC for the first time. He then asks if that discriminates against "Jews who aren't wealthy."
JC is also a trustee on the Gerald R Ford Foundation board. His schools operate in places like Kentwood and Ypsilanti, areas in Michigan with a higher percentage of black students than most places in the state, and as you can see, they love showcasing diversity on their webpage.
The mayor of Grand Rapids, @mayorbliss attended the meeting, and remained silent through this. I'm very interested in hearing if she views this as unacceptable anti-Semitism and social ignorance from someone in his position.