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Tag: Kaleem Caire

  • The anti-education Democrats

    protect the government monopoly. While West Germany was building Mercedes, Porsches, and VW bugs, the Communists on the other side of the Iron Curtain built the Trabant. The automobile “smoked like an Iraqi oil fire and cost a year’s wages,” as one wag had it. No turn signals, no seat belts, no fuel gauge —…

  • WI black leaders support Kinser for state school marm

    but so do those darned Republicans! Because anti-reform Democrats protect the status quo. Wisconsin’s chief school marm has been a disaster. A scandal. Not even one-third of our elementary school kids can read at grade. The racial achievement gap hasn’t budged; only 17.5% of black students are proficient in “language arts” compared to 60.5% of…

  • Madison Common Council is majority minority

    Got melanin? Vote for me because I am (pick one): ☑️ Black, ☑️ Hispanic, ☑️ Queer, ☑️ Transgender, ☑️ Disabled. But if you pitched your candidacy that your are 🔲 White you would be called a racist. You would, in fact, be racist. The Werkes longs for the day when our politics returns to who is ☑️ Best Qualified and aligns with…

  • Kaleem Caire tried to help accused killer of Anisa Scott

    ‘I could see this day coming.’ ‘Neither of his parents were responsible enough to care for him.’ Kaleem Caire is former president of Madison Urban League, ran for school board in 2019, and now runs One City Schools, an independent charter school focusing on minority youth, enabled by Gov. Scott Walker. From Kaleem Caire’s social…

  • You WILL be doxxed if you disagree with the BLM mural 

    … and fired from your job. Two young black women are painting a Black Lives Matter mural on a boarded-up window on E. Wilson Street Sunday afternoon. White man driving an SUV stops to complain that the mural is, itself, racist, anti-white. He threatens to paint over the mural. He questions whether the two had permission…

  • Is this the best Madison’s public schools can do?

    ‘Cheatham was a failure’ Today’s blog excerpts Kaleem Caire’s social media thread in the wake of his letter, co-signed by other local black leaders, expressing disappointment that Matthew Gutierrez of Texas was chosen as new superintendent of Madison WI schools over their preferred candidate, Taylor Eric Thomas of Georgia. Caire expresses frustration over the virulent Progressive…