SOWELL FOOD FOR THOUGHT :

Voucher backlash (Thomas Sowell, July 15, 2002, Jewish World Review)

It was particularly painful to read an outburst by Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, from whom better things might have been expected. According to Ms. Tucker, "Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade."

If black and Latino children are only being "used," then what is the real ulterior motive? If you are not really concerned about minority--and other--children who are being shortchanged in our failing public schools, then what are you after? Is there fame, fortune or a political bonanza to be gotten by being for vouchers?

The great Thomas Sowell takes on the opponents of the proponents of vouchers. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 15, 2002 8:09 PM