Last week’s article, Ford Foundation Shuts Down Fellowship Program — which was featured on RealClearPolicy — was breaking news. I hedged against the uncertainty at the time by writing, “People are confused, and nobody really knows what happened. I certainly don't know what happened. I will keep trying to get to the bottom of what drove this decision, but until then, consider this a short article simply to break the news.”
These commies are like the old-school American Mafia, running wild and undermining the social fabric with impunity, but only as long as they can operate sub rosa. Hopefully there will be something like Kefauver-style hearings on the criminal underworld of the Ford Foundation and similar communist organizations to shine a spotlight on the shadows in which they operate. If that does happen, hipefully you will get the recognition you deserve as the one who got that ball rolling.
I think many of these folks don't realize that DEI is a mere justification for money, power, and control. I imagine this would be very difficult to understand without that assumption (although it will no doubt be blamed on oppression per usual). I appreciate the reasoned speculation you provide about the motivations of foundation leadership that make sense of this pivot that you very well could have instigated. Without knowing about their $16,000,000,000 endowment it isn't as obvious that protecting this money and avoiding prosecution is their ultimate priority.
An organization with a sixteen BILLION dollar endowment doesn't shut down suddenly because of a couple of bad press articles. For a few million dollars they could have run a couple of puff pieces all across the country and made the bad press go away. I think there was plans long in the making to shut it down and re-vamp the program as something else and the timing is just odd. The bad press might have made the decision easier, but large organizations like this don't just shut down their twenty year old facade because of some dude on Substack. Sorry, not buying it.
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These commies are like the old-school American Mafia, running wild and undermining the social fabric with impunity, but only as long as they can operate sub rosa. Hopefully there will be something like Kefauver-style hearings on the criminal underworld of the Ford Foundation and similar communist organizations to shine a spotlight on the shadows in which they operate. If that does happen, hipefully you will get the recognition you deserve as the one who got that ball rolling.
I think many of these folks don't realize that DEI is a mere justification for money, power, and control. I imagine this would be very difficult to understand without that assumption (although it will no doubt be blamed on oppression per usual). I appreciate the reasoned speculation you provide about the motivations of foundation leadership that make sense of this pivot that you very well could have instigated. Without knowing about their $16,000,000,000 endowment it isn't as obvious that protecting this money and avoiding prosecution is their ultimate priority.
An organization with a sixteen BILLION dollar endowment doesn't shut down suddenly because of a couple of bad press articles. For a few million dollars they could have run a couple of puff pieces all across the country and made the bad press go away. I think there was plans long in the making to shut it down and re-vamp the program as something else and the timing is just odd. The bad press might have made the decision easier, but large organizations like this don't just shut down their twenty year old facade because of some dude on Substack. Sorry, not buying it.
typo:
a little more transparant
should be transparent