Constitutional Illiteracy and Wokeness in the U.S. Military: An Interview with Dr. Chase Spears
Hal Shurtleff, host of the Camp Constitution Report, interviews Dr. Chase Spears on Constitutional illiteracy and wokeness in the U.S Military.
Dr. Chase Spears is a combat veteran who served as a U.S. Army public affairs officer for 20 years, retiring from Fort Leavenworth on October 1, 2023. He turned down promotion to Lieutenant Colonel and chose to depart military service as a Major (Promotable) believing that he can serve the nation’s defense more effectively in a civilian capacity. Chase started his military career as an enlisted man and was quickly encouraged to apply for a commission through officer candidate school. He went on to serve 17 years as an officer and paratrooper at the 55th Combat Camera Company, 4th Brigade (Airborne) – 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska Headquarters, and the Mission Command Training Program at Fort Leavenworth. He deployed to Kuwait and served a combat tour in Afghanistan, in addition to serving partnership mission in Canada, Mongolia, Jordan, and Australia. In recognition of excellence in service, he was selected for a competitive U.S. Army fellowship to Georgetown University in 2017. The Army next selected him to attend the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College resident course, which is limited to the top 49% of officers. Chase’s is the recipient of awards from the Command and General Staff College, Georgetown University, the International Public Relations Research Association, the interdisciplinary national honor society Phi Kappa Phi, and the International Association of Business Communicators (Kansas City chapter).
Dr. Spears is passionate about holding the military accountable to its Constitutional purpose. He is widely published on civil-military and political topics in publications that include The American Mind, Real Clear Defense, The Washington Post, and The Baltimore Sun. He has also authored chapters about communication professionalism in two books. Chase is often sought out for expert perspective by media organizations including News Nation, The Gateway Pundit, and American Family News. Chase holds a Ph.D. in leadership communication from Kansas State University, where his research focused on the political realities of military norms, culture, and actions. He recently founded a leadership practice that coaches principled leaders to find their spines, man up, ignore critics, lead boldly, and build substantive legacies.
American Minute with Bill Federer History of Iran Part 3 WWI in Middle East to Khomeini’s Revolution
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“Threatening” Congress with Article V Applications
After almost a decade of insisting that Congress will never term-limit itself by proposing a constitutional
amendment, US Term Limits (USTL) did a 180 in 2024—apparently to sidestep the “runaway convention”
objection. Now they insist there won’t be a convention—so it can’t run away! Either way, USTL’s solution
to save America is for State Legislatures to vote to pass USTL’s applications asking Congress to call a
convention under Art. V.
USTL lobbyist Constantin Querard testified in
Alaska: “While it’s an Article V application, this issue
is never going to a convention. Our goal is NOT a
convention. We’re gonna do what’s worked for the last
240 years. And that is to use the process to pressure
Congress to write the Amendment itself.” (Emphasis
added.) 1
North Carolina State Sen. Todd Johnson, in presenting
the USTL application to a Senate committee, agreed:
“…As history has proven, a convention on (term limits) or any issue is highly unlikely to ever actually
happen…just as occurred with the 17th, 21st, and 22nd Amendments to the US Constitution—as the number
of states signed-on approaches the required 34 states, Congress decides to take action…because they
ultimately want the control over the Amendment.”2
Meanwhile, the Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) groups are selling the same false narrative:
Idaho State Sen. Doug Ricks (R), testified3 that “[The Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA)
Campaign’s] main goal is NOT to call a convention. … [It] intends to use the threat of a
convention achieved at 33 states to force Congress to act and propose their own BBA.”
Loren Enns, President of Balanced Budget Now, echoed Ricks at the same Idaho
hearing, “Nobody really wants a convention, if it can be avoided.”4
The new narrative credits states’ pressure from A5C applications for Congress’s proposing the Bill of
Rights, presidential tenure, women’s right to vote, electing US Senators by popular vote, repeal of
prohibition, etc.
But history proves no such thing. There is virtually no correlation between States’ passing
applications and Congress’s proposing related Amendments! See Table on page 2.
Passing Art. V convention applications appears to have played a role in Congress’s proposing the 17th
Amendment. But state applications to Congress were too few in number to have played a role in any other
Amendment. Moreover, several applications came close to passing in the required number of states,
without Congress’s passing an Amendment.
Playing chicken with Congress isn’t a good gamble. And State Legislators who vote for applications while
trusting that Congress will never call a convention, are risking our Constitution.
1 Testimony (Querard) @ 03:11:35, Alaska House State Affairs Committee on HJR 13 (Term Limits), Feb. 1, 2024.
2 Transcript (Johnson) before the North Carolina Senat
2024.
3 Testimony (Ricks) @ 05:30 before the Idaho Senate (Standing) Judiciary & Rules Committee, SCR 115 (BBA), Mar. 1, 2024.
Enter hearing information in drop down menus.
4 Testimony (Enns) @ 09:00 before the Idaho Senate (Standing) Judiciary & Rules Committee, SCR 115 (BBA), Mar. 1, 2024.
Same link as above, after Ricks.
5 According to the unofficial Article V Library, the highest number of States that ever held non-rescinded applications on the
subject at the same time; in parentheses is the # of States needed to apply at the time (2/3 of the States). Note that Congress
determines which applications are valid in order to count the number of States that applied—not the Article V Library or the
convention lobby.
Understanding Minneapolis
What we see happening in Minneapolis is an old and effective tactic from the communist playbook with a few updates. It was used by Martin Luther King in the 1960s and by left-wing labor unions in the 1920s and 1930s. The tactic is called direct action. And it goes like this:
1, Get people into the streets with a grievance real or imagined. To cause maximum disruption, ensure that demonstrators don’t have a permit.
2, Police or counter protesters clash causing deaths and/or injuries.
3, A sympathetic media, reports that either the police, local and federal, or counterdemonstrators are responsible. for the deaths, injuries and property damage.
4, A demand is made to support the cause of the demonstrators. In the case of Minneapolis, get ICE agents out and let dangerous illegal alien criminals remain in the United States.
5, Pass federal legislation to address the situation. In this case, abolish ICE.
The books The Whole of Their Lives and And Not A Shot is Fired are two important resources to help people understand what is happening in Minneapolis. The Whole of Their Lives was written in 1948 by Bengamin Gitlow, a former communist who became disillusioned by communist tactics. He recounts a rent strike where communists were on the street protesting, while communists on the roof, unknown to the street demonstrators, were throwing debris down at the communists below. The goal was to create martyrs. The title of the book was what the communists expected from their members.
And Not a Shot is Fired by Jan Kosak, a Czechoslovakian communist, explains how a free nation is taken over via subversion without the need of a violent revolution. It was an internal strategy paper for the Czechoslovak Communist Party and reprinted in English by the United States House Committee on Un-American Activities. Over the years, numerous conservative organizations reprinted the book. Camp Constitution reprinted it in the Spring of 2020 with a foreword by our friend John Perna. Back in 2020, during the height of the Black Lives Matter, Antifa riots, copies of the small booklet were selling for over $200.
We have it available for $20. shipping included: https://campconstitution.net/product/and-not-a-shot-is-fired-the-communist-strategy-for-subverting-a-representative-government-by-jan-kozak/
For a free PDF version of The Whole of Their Lives, E-mail me at campconstitution1@gmail.com
National School Choice Week January 25-31– Over 32 Governors Issue Proclamations Supporting School Choice
This week is National School Choice Week. Our choice is homeschooling, but we appreciate the organization National School Choice Week https://schoolchoiceweek.com/ that is trying to help parents become aware of options to government schools.
From their website:
National School Choice Week: Celebrating Momentum and Meaningful Wins
National School Choice Week helps families learn more about the education options
available for their children. We raise equal awareness of traditional public, public
charter, public magnet, private, online, home, and nontraditional learning environments.Since 2011, National School Choice Week has shined a positive spotlight on opportunity
in K–12 education through 235,000 independent events hosted by schools, nonprofits,
and parent leaders. In 2026, NSCW will take place January 25–31.
available for their children. We raise equal awareness of traditional public, public
charter, public magnet, private, online, home, and nontraditional learning environments.Since 2011, National School Choice Week has shined a positive spotlight on opportunity
in K–12 education through 235,000 independent events hosted by schools, nonprofits,
and parent leaders. In 2026, NSCW will take place January 25–31.
Our Organization
National School Choice Week is a charitable program of the National School Choice
Awareness Foundation (NSCAF) and the National School Choice Resource Center
(NSCRC), both 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
NSCAF and NSCRC show parents how K–12 school choice can change their children’s
lives, and then guides them through each step of the school search process. NSCAF
and NSCRC also oversee the Navigate School Choice and Conoce tus Opciones
Escolares charitable programs, which provide families with free resources to help them
succeed in their school choice journeys.
NSCAF is nonpolitical and does not advocate for or oppose legislation at any level of
government.
Over thirty governors issued proclamations celebrating National School Choice Week: https://schoolchoiceweek.com/proclamations/
The Weekly Sam: How to Use Education Reform Effectively as a Campaign Issue By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
All candidates for office promise to “improve education,” but when they are elected, they
haven’t the faintest idea of how to proceed from there. That’s because the whole idea of
education reform is based more on the deliberate falsehoods produced by the educators
than on the reality of why our schools are the way they are.
I have been writing critically about education for the last forty years. My books include
The New Illiterates, How to Tutor, Alpha-Phonics, NEA: Trojan Horse in American
Education, The Whole Language Fraud, Homeschooling: A Parents Guide to
Teaching Children, The Victims of Dick and Jane, and Revolution via Education.
In those books I showed that every problem we have in public education today has been
deliberately caused by the educators themselves, and that no true education reform is
possible as long as we rely on the educators to create and implement those reforms.
Here are the realities that you as a candidate or concerned citizen should be aware of:
1, The public schools were taken over in the early 20th century by a cabal of progressive
educators whose goal it was to use the schools as a means of turning children into little
socialists who would then bring about a socialist society. The plan for all of this was
outlined by John Dewey in an article entitled “The Primary-Education Fetich”
written in 1898 and published in Forum magazine, May 1898. In it, Dewey
advocated changing the way children were taught to read so that they could be
deliberately dumbed-down. High literacy was considered an obstacle to socialism
because it developed independent, individualistic intelligence not conducive to
collectivist group think.
2, The new “sight” or “look-say” method of teaching reading was put in the schools in
the 1930s, and by 1955 the reading situation had become so bad that Dr. Rudolf Flesch
was compelled to write Why Johnny Can’t Read. In it he explained, “The teaching of
reading–all over the United States, in all the schools, in all the textbooks–is totally
wrong and flies in the face of all logic and common sense.” And believe it or not, the
situation is as bad today as it was in 1955. In fact, in 2007 the National Endowment for
the Arts issued a report on America’s declining literacy, Reading at Risk. Endowment
Chairman Dana Gioia stated: “This is a massive social problem. We are losing the
majority of the new generation. They will not achieve anything close to their
potential because of poor reading.”
3.
In order to implement these new socialist programs in the schools, the Progressive
Cabal decided to take over the National Education Association and turn it into a powerful
political instrument in order to pressure the Federal Government to pour billions of
dollars into the public schools. Their success has been achieved. Back in 1967, the
NEA’s executive secretary proclaimed: “NEA will become a political power second to no
other special interest group….NEA will organize this profession from top to bottom into
logical operational units that can move swiftly and effectively and with power unmatched
by any other organized group in the nation.” In short, the NEA is a political
organization attached to the radical left-wing of the Democratic party.
4.
The Progressive program has been fully implemented in the public schools, paid for
by the taxpayer who is barely aware of what is going on. Thus American children are at
risk in four ways in the public schools: academically, spiritually, morally, and physically.
Academically because of the reading programs that create dyslexia and reading failure;
spiritually, because of the undermining of the children’s religious beliefs through the
philosophy of secular humanism; morally, because pornographic sex ed, drug ed, and
moral relativism; and physically, because of school shootings and massacres, violence,
and school-bus accidents.
5.
So what is a conservative candidate to do or say when it comes to education? He or
she must support the idea of educational freedom, the right of parents to home-school,
and the right of entrepreneurs and religious denominations to create good private schools.
A conservative can support the idea of the charter school, which in reality is a public
school, provided that the charter issuing board will approve of schools with traditional
teaching programs.
As for the public schools, the conservative candidate should advocate the complete
reform of the primary school curriculum so that it includes intensive, systematic phonics,
cursive writing instruction, and basic arithmetic. It is in the primary school where the
greatest damage is done to the children. Therefore a detailed plan to completely revamp
the primary school curriculum should be the basic educational reform offered by a
conservative candidate. Such advocacy would be an excellent way to gain the support of
parents in the community. It would be very difficult for your opponents to argue against
such reforms.
The above article came from the Blumenfeld Archive: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
The Blumenfeld Archives
Louisiana Appeals Ten Commandments Ruling to Full Fifth Circuit
(This is a news release from our friends at Liberty Counsel. Our case is mentioned in it.
Jan 20, 2026
In June 2024, Louisiana became the first state to require all its public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. Gov. Jeff Landry signed the law which directs all public classrooms from kindergarten to state-funded colleges and universities to post the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” on a poster or framed document. The law states the purpose of these displays is to educate the public on “historically significant documents” that shaped both “American and Louisiana law.”
The outcome of Louisiana’s case will also affect a similar challenge to Texas’ 2025 Ten Commandments law, which is under the Fifth Circuit’s jurisdiction. In Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District, several Texas families successfully sued the state receiving a preliminary injunction blocking the Ten Commandments in Texas schools.
Recent Supreme Court precedents show that displaying the Ten Commandments is not necessarily a religious endorsement. In American Legion v. American Humanists Association, the High Court wrote that the Ten Commandments “have historical significance as one of the foundations of our legal system” and represents a “common cultural heritage.” Then, in 2022, the cases of Shurtleff v. City of Boston and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District rejected and overruled the 1971 case of Lemon v. Kurtzman. The High Court replaced the “Lemon Test” by returning to a traditional First Amendment standard where courts must interpret the Establishment Clause by “reference to historical practices and understandings.”
Throughout this case, Louisiana officials have defended the Ten Commandments law as constitutionally valid by arguing that it has a historical and educational purpose. They cite the Decalogue’s “historical role” in developing American law and education, which displayed alongside other historical documents, would be permissible under the First Amendment. Since HB 71 also required public school classrooms to display the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, and the Northwest Ordinance, the state’s legal team has argued that the law’s intent is not to endorse a religion but to teach where America’s longstanding moral values in civic life originate.
Liberty Counsel’s Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “The Ten Commandments is a universally recognized symbol of law and has indelibly shaped the Western Legal Tradition and American government. There are more than 50 displays of the Ten Commandments inside and outside the United States Supreme Court. The Ten Commandments are ubiquitous and their central role in law and government pre-date the U.S. Constitution. Passive Ten Commandments displays do not compel religious exercise, so there is no Establishment Clause violation. The en banc Fifth Circuit has a chance to correct a terribly flawed ruling and restore the Ten Commandments to public school classrooms.”
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The transition to net-zero emissions is a tax on the air you breathe Nonscientists Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Bill Gates support taxing the gas of life – CO2
Ronald Stein, P.E., is an engineer, columnist on energy literacy at America Out Loud NEWS, and advisor on energy literacy for the Heartland Institute and CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.” He is also the recipient of an unsolicited Tribute to Ronald Stein from Stephen Heins.
Willie Soon, PhD., an astrophysicist and geoscientist, is a leading authority on the relationship between solar phenomena and global climate. He has published extensively for nearly the past 4 decades on solar and stellar physics and Earth sciences as well as public health. Dr. Soon works are well recognized by world-class scientists like Kary Mullis (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry), John Clauser (Nobel Laureate in Physics), Freeman Dyson (Wrangler at Large), Eugene Parker (Father of Solar Wind) and many more.
Co-authored by Ronald Stein and Willie Soon
Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Bill Gates all have lifestyles with large personal mansions and travel by planes, cruise liners, and automobiles, that are all built with fossil fuels, the same fossil fuels they wish to rid the world of. And these “average D students”, according to Richard Lindzen of MIT, in science insisted to tax the air all life depends on. The great weather forecaster, Joe Bastardi, recently provided an estimate that some $10-12 trillion dollars had been wasted over the past 30 years because these pseudo-activists sold the world the idea of “fake energy” by wind turbines and solar panels.
- These green delusionists seem to be oblivious that wind turbines and solar panels may produce “zero” emission, but ONLY generate electricity. Those wind turbines and solar panels are incapable of making any of the products or transportation fuels demanded by the 8 billion now on this planet.
- These “green” mandators for transitioning from ICE vehicles to EV’s would only eliminate gasoline used in ICE vehicles, which is only 1 of the more than 6,000 products made from fossil fuels. The EV, like the ICE vehicle, continues to be 100% made from those oil products, inclusive of tires, computers, wiring and insulation, and all the electronics of those so-called “zero emissions” vehicle.
- These so-called “political leaders” CANNOT explain how wind turbines and solar panels can make any of the other 5,999 products that are now made from hydrocarbons that we see in operating hospitals, airports, offices, shopping centers, datacenters, etc. or how those renewables will support the 50,000 merchant ships, 300 cruise ships, 20,000 commercial aircraft, and 50,000 military aircraft on this planet that did not exist 200 years ago?
Sustainable development and green business based on renewable energy. Reduce CO2 emission concept. Renewable energy-based green businesses can limit climate change and global warming
CO2 is a gas of life that makes the world greener and the plants more water-wise. CO2 concentration levels:
- 8,000 ppm: Naval Submarines
- 5,000 ppm: Space Station
- 4,000 ppm: Abundant Life
- 1,600 ppm: Average
- 800 to 1,500 ppm: Greenhouses enrich the air to boost plant growth and yield by providing more carbon for photosynthesis.
- 425 ppm: TODAY, with nonscientists Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Bill Gates promoting LESS CO2.
- 200 ppm: Ice ages, which contributed to global cooling
- 140 ppm: Death, i.e. CO2 starvation levels when humans, animals, and plant life CANNOT survive.
Why on earth are those so-called political leaders promoting that the world moves toward starvation levels of CO2? Is it a way to generate tax on our air to lessen the US budget deficit?
- The current US budget deficit is more than $38.46 Trillion, but we’ll get back to that in a moment.
In the 1800’s (before oil) life expectancy was around 30 to 40 years of age, and the world population was about 1 billion.
As you know, no one uses that black tar commonly referred to crude oil until it is processed into oil derivatives that are the basis of more than 6,000 products and various transportation fuels today that did not exist in the 1800’s.
After oil, the world populated from 1 to more than 8 billion in less than 200 years, not from that useless black tar, but from the products we have today from PROCESSED crude oil.
We may not need those hydrocarbons, but we do need those 6,000 products and transportation fuels, that did not exist 200 years ago, that are MADE from hydrocarbons to support the 8 billion on this planet.
Today, we’re a materialistic society based on more than 6,000 products and transportation fuels based on hydrocarbons. We need the products not fossil fuels, BUT we have no back up plan to replace the hydrocarbons that are supporting the supply chain of all those products and transportation fuels that were the basis for the world population growing from 1 to 8 billion in less than 200 years.
We know that wind and solar can ONLY generate electricity, but wind and solar CANNOT make any of the 6,000 products and transportation fuels that are based on hydrocarbons. In the event COP30 get their wishes that we eliminate hydrocarbons BEFORE we have a replacement identified, the world’s population will most likely decline by billions of people as we would be unable to support the supply chain of products and transportation fuels demanded by those on this planet.
Getting back to the US budget deficit of $38.46 Trillion. It is heavily caused by Medicare and Social Security expenses for the growing numbers of older people that are here because of the products made from hydrocarbons that have contributed to an exceptional health care infrastructure that did not exist in the 1800’s that is contributing to today’s longer longevity.
Current CO2 levels of 425 ppm are well below what Navy personnel breath in submarines, and well below what our Astronauts beath on the Space Station, and well below what plants breath in greenhouses, yet Gore, Kerry, Obama, Gates, and California Governor Newsom, all want to over regulate the emissions from our use of hydrocarbons that are only being demanded by people’s addiction to the products made from hydrocarbons.
In 1800, when the atmospheric CO2 level was said to be about 270-280 ppm, it was considered the pre-industrial baseline before large-scale fossil fuel burning supported the world’s population growth from 1 to 8 billion in less than 200 years.
In the event these so-called “political leaders” get their wish by taxing our air and we rid the use of crude oil, it will most likely result in a depopulation of billions on this planet if we rid the use of crude oil before we can clone it to support the supply chain of products for humanity. And, like the 1800’s, when we had no products from hydrocarbons, nobody will live past 60 years of age, and thus the $38.46 Trillion deficit problem will be resolved with a drastic decrease in the numbers eligible for Medicare and Social Security as they die off, AND virtually nobody will live long enough to be added to Medicare and Social Security.
The transition to net-zero emissions is a tax on the air we breathe.
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When They Come for the Churches The storming of a Minnesota church is not politics. It is good versus evil. How long will Christians stay silent? by Alex Destino
Anti-ICE, Democrat Party foot soldiers are now storming Christian church services in Minnesota. That alone tells you exactly where this country is headed.
This is not protest. This is spiritual warfare. Good versus evil. When activists invade a House of God, frighten children, and intimidate worshipers in the middle of a church service, they are not acting on their own. This is organized. This is funded. This is protected.
And there is a reason for it.
The Democrat Party cannot win elections without importing millions of illegal aliens. Without that pipeline of future voters, their coalition collapses. So they will defend that system at any cost — even if that means trampling churches, terrorizing children, and intimidating pastors.
This is not random. These are foot soldiers for a political machine that depends on chaos and lawlessness to survive.
We have seen this pattern before.
After the Bolshevik Revolution in the early 1920s, communist mobs stormed churches across Russia, shut them down, assaulted priests, desecrated altars, and turned sanctuaries into prisons and propaganda halls. They understood that faith was their greatest enemy. Karl Marx taught that communism advances by tearing down religion, family, truth, and national identity. Destroy faith first, and everything else collapses after it.
Now look at Minnesota and tell me this is not the same pattern.
If you’ve followed anything I’ve written, you know I’ve said for a long time that this is spiritual warfare. This is no longer right versus left. It is good versus evil.
And if you think this cannot happen in your town, you are badly mistaken.
We saw a preview of it right here in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
During Gloucester’s 400th anniversary, I proposed that the city fly the Christian flag on Good Friday to recognize the contributions of the Christian community over four centuries — the faith that shaped not only America, but Gloucester itself. That was all it was meant to be: an acknowledgment of history and gratitude for the people who built this city.
The response exposed something far darker.
The attacks were immediate. The hatred was vicious. The tolerance vanished the moment Christianity appeared in public.
What most people never saw were the messages that came privately.
So many good people reached out to tell me they agreed, that they supported it, that they were grateful someone finally said it out loud. But they were afraid to say it publicly.
Afraid of whom?
Afraid of the same people who now storm churches.
Many of you saw what they tried to do to me. I’m not afraid. But you should ask yourself why so many decent people are.
Scripture is very clear about this. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.” And again, “Whoever acknowledges Me before men, I will also acknowledge before My Father in heaven.”
We are not called to hide our faith. We are called to be bold in it.
Christians need to wake up.
This is no longer about politics. This is about whether you will be allowed to worship freely in your own country without intimidation. Christians are not a minority in the United States. We are the majority. But a silent majority is a defeated majority.
If Christians stood up together, this madness would stop.
Protect your churches. Protect your pastors. Protect your families. If you don’t know what security your church has, ask your pastor. If there is none, demand it. This is not paranoia. This is prudence. And I can assure you of this: this nonsense would not happen at my church.
And understand this clearly: what happened in that church in Minnesota is not just immoral — it is illegal.
Federal law, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, makes it a felony to use force, threats, or physical obstruction to intimidate people because they are exercising their religious freedom at a place of worship. The video is public. The conduct is obvious.
If the law means anything at all, those who entered that church to disrupt worship and terrorize worshipers should be in handcuffs today.
These are not normal times.
If you are not awake now, when will you be?
Stand up for your faith. Stand up for your churches. Stand up for your communities and your families. Because the people doing this do not want coexistence. They want submission. And history is very clear about what happens when good people stay silent for too long.
The Weekly Sam: Book Review of “Marva Collins’ Way” by Sam Blumenfeld
(This is a review from Sam’s June 1987 newsletter titled “Eugenics and the Making of a Black Underclass.”) http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/1987/BEL%2002-06%20198706.pdf
Marva Collins is the black educator who spent 16 years teaching in the Chicago public school system before deciding that she had had enough. “The longer I taught in the public school system, the more I came to think that schools were concerned with everything but teaching,” she says. In September 1975 Marva began a private school of her own with four students and one classroom.
Today, her Westside Preparatory School is considered the nation’s most successful private alternative in a black community. Its success has been widely acclaimed by the media but not by the public educators of Chicago who continue to do what they do best: miseducate. I have known Marva for many years through my association with the Reading Reform Foundation. She has been one of America’s strongest and most vocal advocates of intensive phonics in the teaching of reading. Because of this she is not very popular among reading professionals and specialists who use look-say basal programs.
Marva Collins’ Way is an important book for anyone who wants to understand what one woman is doing to pull black children out of the underclass. Mrs. Collins writes: “I prepared my children for Iife.” And I bluntly told them to face that fact that no one was going to hire them for a job if they walked into an office wearing picks in their hair, if they slinked into a room as though their hips were broken, or if the boys wore earrings or high-heeled shoes or wide-brimmed hats. I teach them to become universal citizens of the world. encourage people,
She writes “I did not teach black history as a subject apart from American history, emphasize black heroes over white, or preach black consciousness rather than a sense of the larger society. My refusal to do so was a sore spot between me and some members of the black community. “I’d say to my students, ‘Is there anyone in here who doesn’t know he’s black?’ And the children would shake their heads and laugh. Then I’d ask, ‘Is there any black child in here who plans on turning white?’ Again, there would be laughter. ‘In that case let’s get on with the business of learning,’ I’m opposed to teaching black English because it separates black children from the rest of society; it also implies they are too inferior to learn standard language usage.” I was convinced black English was another barrier confining my students to the ghetto, “Instead of teaching black pride I taught my children self-pride.
All I wanted was for them to accept themselves. I pointed out that in many ways the ghetto is a state of mind. If you have a positive attitude about yourself, then no one can put you down for who you are or where you live.” This book will also teach you more about education then you’ll ever learn in a teachers college. It goes against everything John Dewey, Cattell, Thorn dike, Gates, Judd, Gray, and the others stood for. It’s what every teacher and student teacher in America should read. But let’ s face it. How many teachers actually read any more books for pleasure?
(The book is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Marva-Collins-Way-P/dp/0874773105/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title#
And the movie: