NAACP Is Not Working Against Interests Of Black Students

To the Editor: 
As a college-educated black person and proud beneficiary of the U.S. public school system, I strongly disagree with Art Hall’s position that black people represented by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) are working against the interests of black students. 
NAACP is right – charter schools are no friend of the black community.  I contend that racism/white supremacy is what works against the interests of black people in general, black students specifically. Psychiatrist Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing has described white supremacy as: “Racism (white supremacy) is the local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined; which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action, and emotional response, as conducted, simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war); for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet Earth – a planet upon which the vast and overwhelming majority of people are classified as nonwhite (black, brown, red and yellow) by white-skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people.”
As a result of black people being oppressed/controlled by whites via slavery, slave codes, Jim Crow, segregation, integration/prison industrial complex, etc., the origin and maintenance of this “cycle of poverty”  you speak of is rooted in this toxic history of white supremacy. The public school system was, and is if funded properly, a remedy to even the “educational playing field” for poor/non-white children to receive a quality education.  Public schools have produced some of the best scholars, professionals, athletes, etc., the world has ever known.
I contend that charter schools are another tool in the white supremacy tool box designed to undermine the extremely successful public schools. Bank-owned politicians control the purse strings of the public schools and deliberately underfund the schools so they fail – then shine the spotlight on the failure. They then miraculously find tax dollars for grants to their friends/donors who own and operate charter schools.  The accolades and achievements touted by charter schools and their cheerleaders have been exposed as fraudulent. A 2015 report titled, “The Tip of the Iceberg: Charter School Vulnerabilities To Waste, Fraud, And Abuse,” cites $203 million, including the 2014 total plus $23 million in new cases, and $44 million in earlier cases not included in last year’s report. 
Hall, why no outrage over this “manufactured, for-profit money grab?” Amazes me how whites are comfortable telling black people what’s best for them – especially when they’re profiting from our misery. Public schools produced the most talented and financially successful black American icons that the world continuously benefits from. Perhaps this is why white supremacists/politicians want to shut down public schools.  After all, if too many black people become wealthy, they may pool their money and organize against the white supremacy system.  Charter schools would be a “well-meaning,” “plausible” way to kill public schools that blacks have flourished under for decades. 
What we do know is that white supremacy wants to “privatize” education and healthcare and poor/non-white people get screwed when this occurs. A country is doomed when it only educates and cares for the ones it deems worthy – especially when it takes tax money from everyone.
If Hall wants to know what’s best for black folks – try asking us!
ED. Note: Those questioning the NAACP’s actions should research Virginia Walden Ford, a founding member of the Black Alliance for Educational Options. She is a black woman whose relatives fought for civil rights, and is now disappointed in the NAACP. She says that in the 1960s the NAACP was for minorities and the disadvantaged but is now engaging in lawsuits which harm them.