Facebook Creator gives $100 Million to Newark's Troubled Public Schools; The Social Network will still be Released

What would you do with $100 million dollars? Think about it for a second. No, give it a few more seconds. In fact, take your time with this question.

All right. What did you come up with?

Well, if you said you would donate it to a failing school system that already receives massive amounts of donations from Disingenuous White Liberals who care little for the results and return on investment of their philanthropic gift, but depend more on the moral capital the gift bestows upon them, then you are thinking along the lines of Mark Zuckerberg:

Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old Facebook founder and the biggest climber on this year’s Forbes 400, has just agreed to donate $100 million to Newark’s troubled public schools.

The tech whiz kid is expected to appear on fellow Forbes billionaire Oprah Winfrey’s show tomorrow to announce the gift, alongside Newark Mayor Cory Booker and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. The New York Times reports that Zuckerberg’s donation will allow Booker to start redesigning the failing Newark school system, taking some control from the state.

This is the first time Zuckerberg has made a large-scale public charitable donation. He joins the ranks of other Forbes tech billionaires known for their philanthropy.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the richest man in America for the 17th year in a row, is also the most generous person on the planet: he’s cut checks totaling $28 billion to date. He and his wife launched the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 1994, when Gates was 38 – a dinosaur compared to Zuckerberg – with an initial gift of $94 million.

Zuckerberg has yet to join Gates and Warren Buffett’s billionaire giving pledge, which has seen 40 of the wealthiest Americans pledge to donate the majority of their wealth to charity over their lifetimes.

As we documented in an earlier post on Newark (well two posts), the city already receives substantial gifts from outside sources in an all-out effort to bring harmony, increased test scores and peace to the city:

Mayor Booker’s leadership has attracted approximately $100 million in private philanthropy to the City of Newark and a variety of nonprofits and public/private partnerships have been created and used to better the lives of Newark residents.

In April 2008, the Newark Charter School Fund was established to provide grants in support of Newark’s charter schools to support a successful public school system in Newark.^[33]

The City of Newark also works with GreenSpaces, which has committed $40 million toward the largest park expansion initiative in over a century with a total of twenty one park construction and rehabilitation projects scheduled for completion in every ward by the end of 2010.^[34]

To support the Newark Police Department, the Newark Police Foundation was established in 2006 and provides funding and other services to the Police Department which has had a significant impact on the NPD’s ability to pay for necessary resources that would otherwise not be readily funded through the department’s budget.^[35]

Cory Booker is the beloved, brown paper bag test passing mayor of Newark. Yet for all this political capital he has earned, the city he runs is in dire fiscal straits:

Facing a daunting $70 million budget gap, Newark, N.J., Mayor Corey Booker says he can't afford to spare even one square: Discontinuing toilet paper in city offices is among his proposed cuts to remedy Newark's 2010 budget deficit.

"Every single contract that does not go to the core function of our city in providing safe streets, providing fire protection or other things to keep our city afloat will now be cut," Booker said during a press conference on Wednesday.

These proposed budget cuts to the school system have been met with walkouts by students, demanding to know where Cory Booker is in the time of budgetary calamity.

Well, Cory Booker has been gallivanting around with crowds containing very rich people, unlike the constituency that elected him to office in the first place. Why isn’t Newark better off? Why are cities with lots of red in these maps safer and more productive areas to live in?

$100 million dollars for Newark and for the school system: that will provide a lot of free lunches and more importantly, toilet paper.

Something tells us that Mr. Booker is going to get the Fenty treatment in the upcoming election.

A gift of $100 million grants Zuckerberg entry into the esteemed category of white liberals who pay homage to Black Run America (BRA) with a philanthropic gift, gaining unquestionable political capital in the process.

An Inconvenient Truth that goes outside the realm of education is simply this: The Social Network is about to be released that paints Zuckerberg in a most distressing and unpleasant light.

Nothing generates positive public relations like giving money to poor, perpetually down-trodden Black people, the cure-all for overcoming a movie and negative publicity that depicts you as a villainous, licentious cretin.

$100 million is but a small price to pay for smoothing over the rough-edges of reality for Zuckerberg, and donating it to Black people is a move right out of the pages of Mr. Deeds.

Regardless of the reason behind the gift, Newark schools will continue to fail and $100 million will have only purchased Zuckerberg positive press accolades.

Newark students walk out of school, take City Hall

Facebook deleted SBPDL account

SBPDL decided to start a Facebook account, so that we could better serve the growing community of readers we have attracted.

After only two weeks on Facebook, we had nearly 500 friends. However, this all came to a crashing end today, as for some reason the account was disabled.

Obviously, we are upsetting people with SBPDL, or else this would not have happened.

Stuff Black People Don't Like includes free speech and more importantly their strong allies in disingenuous white liberals work diligently to extirpate any discussion of Black people for fear that HATE FACTS will be brought into the equation.

And once Hate Facts and Black people are brought into the equation, the situation reaches critical mass.

This website was created as a joke, obviously owing much to the impressive work Stuff White People Like (which is a very seditious website itself, which few people recognize).

We are working to educate the world on Stuff Black People Don't Like, and have been overwhelmed with the response and the site continues to grow in popularity (or in complete disgust) daily.

However, our reach has been stymied by Facebook, a once inspiring social networking site that seems to only attract white people to its membership, but now works to openly discriminate against ideas it deems insidious.

Chris Hughes, is a supporter of Mein Obama, the General Zod of the intolerance, and one of Facebook's co-founders.

Fast Company, a progressive, left-wing magazine that chronicles business, ran a glowing article of this individual, who also spearheaded the Obama online campaign:

"Chris Hughes is having a philosophical moment. "I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word."

We are in Washington, D.C., just three days before his most recent boss, Barack Obama, will take office. It is so bone-jarringly cold that even nestled over coffee inside a Starbucks, we can see our breath. I resist the urge to pat his nearly whiskerless cheek, or reach over to tighten his jacket against the frigid air. Such a baby face. But at the age of 25, Hughes has helped create two of the most successful startups in modern history, Facebook and the campaign apparatus that got Barack Obama elected."

One thing is now obvious: the co-creator of Facebook and an ardent supporter of Mein Obama has ensured that free speech regarding his president is not allowed and no discussion that isn't obsequious is allowed on Facebook.

Instead, all that is allowed on Facebook is stuff like this: people praying to Obama.

Free speech is a causality in the new world we live in. Facebook won't allow it, and soon, no online institution will.

Stuff Black People Don't Like has touched a nerve, and it won't stop anytime soon. The world needs to know the truth, and SBPDL will be there to help lead you down the rabbit hole. How far are you willing to go?

#217. Facebook

Social networking is all the rage currently, as hardly a day goes by that Twitter, Flickr, MySpace or Facebook isn't in the news as revolutionizing the way information is disseminated, people communicate and stay in touch with one another and online friends are made.

Meetup.com was used extensively by Barack Hussein Obama supporters during the 2008 election and Black and white people were able to come together to ensure that change was brought to Washington and to America.

Facebook, a website that allows people to post pictures, write status updates, join similar groups and stay in touch with long lost friends, currently boasts more than 200 million users:

"In August 2008, Business Week reported that private sales by employees, as well as purchases by venture capital firms, had and were being done at share prices that put the company's total valuation at between $3.75 billion and $5 billion."

From that information, you can devise that social networking is a lucrative endeavor. MySpace, the number two social networking site in the world - behind Facebook - is much different. You can upload photos - with very little censorship - and have your favorite song play when people access your page:

"David Itzkoff, in the June 2006 Playboy magazine, related his experiences of experimentation with membership in MySpace. Among his other criticisms, one pertains to the distance afforded by the Internet that emboldens members, such as females who feature photos of themselves in scant clothing on their profile pages or behave in ways they would not in person, and he indicated that this duplicity undercuts the central design of MySpace, namely, to bring people together. Itzkoff also referenced the addictive, time-consuming nature of the site, mentioning that the Playboy Playmate and MySpace member Julie McCullough, who was the first to respond to his add-friend request, pointedly referred to the site as "cybercrack". Itzkoff argued that MySpace gives many people access to a member’s life, without giving the time needed to maintain such relationships and that such relationships do not possess the depth of in-person relationships."

Worse, MySpace has been losing money and users to Facebook and recently cut a number of its employees:

"Social network MySpace Inc. will close at least four overseas offices and lay off 300 people who work outside the United States. The company has been losing ground to archrival Facebook Inc., based in Palo Alto. MySpace said a week ago it would lay off 400 people working in the United States to save money"

Black people love to socially network with other Black people, as Blackplanet.com has been online since 1999 and has served as the vital site for helping Black people connecting online:

"As of June 2007 there were 16.5 million members and 80 million page views."

Another website, Ourspace.com is a website directed at inner city Black youth, and a social networking site to help Black people connect to each other. In fact, Black people used this site to launch a "flash mob" attack on a white person in Philadelphia recently, showing that social networking and rioting go hand in hand:

"Police arrested Stephen Lyde, 21, today and charged him with aggravated assault in what Capt. Laurence D. Nodiff, commander of South Detective Division, called the "vicious" and "brutal" beating of a 52-year-old maintenance mechanic... Nodiff said that Lyde was one of eight males who knocked the victim off his bike and "brutally beat him to unconsciousness," leaving him with skull, rib and facial fractures, and internal injuries."

So with Blackplanet.com and Ourspace.com, what use do Black people have for Facebook or MySpace? The former, apparently nothing, but the latter has become a haven for Black people as computerized "white flight" from MySpace to Facebook is making that site a veritable ghetto:

"A December 2008 study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project showed that, over all, Facebook users were more likely to be male and have completed college, while MySpace users were somewhat more likely to be female, black or Hispanic, and to have not completed college. Since that study, however, Facebook has boomed and the social network landscape has no doubt changed significantly."

These horrible findings, that segregation is not only a problem in how Black people and white people choose where to live, but in how they socially connect online, show that the social media revolution isn't bringing us together, but merely perpetuating division based on archaic notions of race and bourgeois ideas of class distinctions. And all of this is in the digital realm!

Not only is this a serious issue - when Black people have already self-segregated themselves on Blackplanet.com since 1999 and Ourspace.com, sites that only Black people frequent and have used to attack other people - but it has to have academics actually research the problem to ensure that "laptop" equality is practiced by all users of social networking sites:

"Hispanics are still the most likely to use MySpace (58 percent). Whites and blacks have diverged, with 30 percent of whites and 51 percent of blacks using it. And Asians, already the group least likely to be on MySpace, grew much scarcer (16 percent). Students from less educated families were still more likely to use MySpace, while those from more educated families were more likely to use Facebook.So is this white flight? Yes, but it’s not quite so simple, she says. Everyone is fleeing MySpace, and whites and Asians are fleeing in larger numbers."

Blackplanet.com and Ourspace.com are conspicuously absent in this "academic" study, as Black people have been self-segregating online since 1999, when Blackplanet.com was established.

Another academic, Danah Boyd, gave a talk to a self-described "liberal, overwhelming white conference" called the Personal Democracy Forum, and she read in her paper:

"Herein lies the reality that makes all of this quite messy to deal with. It wasn't just anyone who left MySpace to go to Facebook. In fact, if we want to get to the crux of what unfolded, we might as well face an uncomfortable reality... What happened was modern day "white flight." Whites were more likely to leave or choose Facebook. The educated were more likely to leave or choose Facebook. Those from wealthier backgrounds were more likely to leave or choose Facebook. Those from the suburbs were more likely to leave or choose Facebook. Those who deserted MySpace did so by "choice" but their decision to do so was wrapped up in their connections to others, in their belief that a more peaceful, quiet, less-public space would be more idyllic."

She would go on to say:

"We might as well face an uncomfortable reality ... what happened was modern day 'white flight'." Ms Boyd said MySpace had become a digital "ghetto". "The people there are more likely to be brown or black and to have a set of values that terrifies white society," she said.

Her interviews with American teenagers since 2006 showed that online migration mimicked the patterns of class groups' movements across cities.She found teens who preferred Facebook were far more likely to talk down to those who use MySpace than vice versa.

Ms Boyd said her research showed high school students found Facebook "more cultured" and "less cheesy" than MySpace."

"Any high school student who has a Facebook page will tell you MySpace users are more likely to be barely educated and obnoxious," she said.

Again, no mention of Blackplanet.com or Ourspace.com being hangouts only for Black people, but the fear of this woman is that digital "white flight" will further perpetuate divisions. This talk was given to an overwhelming white, liberal audience, by the way.

MySpace is becoming a ghetto, where white people dare not tread and Stuff Black People Don't Like now includes Facebook, where only white people dare socially network and Black people choose to stay away from. Even in the digital world, white people don't want to be near Black people and vice versa.