Friday, June 11, 2010

Schools Matter: Thernstrom's Anti-Racism Racism

Schools Matter: Thernstrom's Anti-Racism Racism

Thernstrom's Anti-Racism Racism


Harvard University’s Winthrop Research Professor of History, Stephan Thernstrom has his underwear in a wad, as they say down South, over the W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s spending of $75 million in a national anti-racist campaign called "America Healing Initiative." The Foundation seems to have serious intentions to make amends for the Kellogg family’s documented history as backers of the eugenics movement in the early 20th Century. For example, Dr. J. H. Kellogg, brother of W. K., was instrumental in founding the Race Betterment Foundation.

Here are a few of the projects currently being funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation:

People’s Grocery, a community organization building a local food system in West