School choice opponents suggest Kaleem Caire is a long-lost Koch Brother

David Blaska:

Previously on Bring It!, we reported on the Left's campaign of vilification directed at Kaleem Caire.

The Left must discredit Mr. Caire for daring to disrupt the comfortable "Madison Way" by proposing a non-union charter school catering to students of color. He must be politically neutered for pointing out this liberal bastion's failure to graduate even half of its black students.

But how to disparage the president of the Madison Urban League, the founder of One Hundred Black Men of Madison, and the 2001 recipient of the city of Madison's Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award?

By the usual and convenient method of tying him to that Great Right-Wing Conspiracy in the Sky. The man for that job is one Allen Ruff. In comments before the school board and on his blog, avidly picked up and repeated by other liberal/progressive outlets, the Madison-based historian and social activist has been spinning an intricate web of guilt by association and seven degrees of separation in order to out Mr. Caire as a closet conservative, a secret tea partier, and a suspect capitalist.

Much more on the proposed Madison Preparatory IB charter school, here.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 16, 2012 6:15 PM
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