North Carolina (again): How your tax dollars
support ethnic activist groups, by Ann Corcoran 11/4/16
The timing of
this $500,000 grant announcement from the Office of Refugee Resettlement to a local non-profit group for
refugees from the DR Congo is so interesting—days before North Carolina could
choose the next President of the US. (See yesterday’s post about North
Carolina, here.)
Raleigh
Immigrant Community Inc. Motto: Unity, Justice, Work (for special people, but
not Americans). Community organizers have received a $500,000 federal grant. http://ricinc.org/ It has been awhile since I’ve written
about ETHNIC COMMUNITY SELF-HELP GRANTS.
Think about
this, besides the fact that the federal grant encourages ethnic separation and
non-assimilation by being geared, in this case in NC, to refugees from the DR
Congo, your money is used to give special refugees (make work!) jobs and if
this one operates as others have in the past, it encourages political involvement
for their ethnic group.
I look at these
non-profits as little ACORNS (remember ACORN). They purport to be helping the
poor (in special ethnic groups) and then they help them vote and become
politically active for ‘their
community.’ If you have ethnic community organizers working where you
live, find out if they are being funded by you.
There is absolutely no
need for this grant program from the Office of Refugee Resettlement. And, I
wonder under what legal authority the feds have to pass out your money in this
discriminatory fashion.
They already
hire the nine
major contractors and their hundreds of subcontractors to get the refugees settled. There is
no need for spin-off non-profits being run with your money! Imagine the
firestorm (!) if we wanted federal bucks (community organizing money) to
organize a European-American ethnic support group! Or, how about North Carolina
Trailer Park Redneck Residents for Justice! (I love rednecks and
‘deplorables’, why not organizing bucks for them/us?)
Before I get to
this one from North Carolina, see this
list of $millions in grant money for special groups of people (no wonder African
Americans notice that immigrants are getting more stuff than they are).
Here is the
news about the Raleigh
Immigrant Community (LOL! timing of grant announcement is amusing!) from
the Daily
Tarheel:
The Raleigh Immigrant Community (RIC) started
a program to help immigrants in the Triangle area after receiving a $500,000
grant from the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement.
The RIC began
as a community
adjustment support group for refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo that met through the UNC Refugee
Mental Health and Wellness Initiative. They started meeting in January 2015 and
became an official nonprofit in April 2016.
The RIC received the ethnic community
self-help grant from the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement. The grant will
give them half a million dollars over three years. [get that
federal money out now before a possible Trump Admin comes in!—ed]
For more go to
our category ‘Ethnic
Community Based Organizations.’ They were previously called ECBOs. I haven’t written
much about them in recent years, but when you hear about the over a billion in
tax dollars that ORR wants to run their programs, know that grants like this
(for special people) are why it is so costly.
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