WFB: New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.) incorrectly attributed the founding of free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch programs in public schools to the radical Black Panther Party on Wednesday.
Ocasio-Cortez posted a photo to her Instagram story with a caption that said the Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast for School Children Program, which began in 1969, created a national push to provide elementary students with free meals.
“Did you know: If you or anyone you know ever benefited from free & reduced school lunch, you’ve likely benefited from the work and legacy of the Black Panthers?” Ocasio-Cortez said in the post.
Federal programs to provide both breakfast and lunch to students, especially those in need, began years before the Panthers launched their free breakfast program in 1969. The National School Lunch Program, which provides free or reduced-price lunches to impoverished students, began in 1946 under President Harry S. Truman. And the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 allocated federal funding through Health and Human Services to provide funding to public schools to serve breakfast to students.
The Black Panther Party began in Oakland, Calif., in 1966 and is known for embracing radical ideology—one of its founders said the “Black Power” movement that the group embodied sought to “smash” Western civilization—and repeatedly clashing with police. While civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and others condemned the group’s violent tactics, some, such as Ocasio-Cortez, praise the militant organization for providing free meals and medical services to the black community as the United States desegregated. read more
a. optional-kotex will say or do anything
And the tooth fairy invented Obama Care.
AOC takes exception to Kamel Toes fracking comments. I love when they eat their own.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/08/aoc-slams-kamala-harris-for-fracking-stance-after-vp-debate/
…sure. And Antifa invented the WIC program too, I suppose…
…and electricity was invented by LeBron James just last year, you just IMAGINED you had it before then, because he’s SO good…
She sticks to the most radical positions because it’s easy to live there: lots of kudos from the corrupt and soros, but zero responsibility.
If she moved into normal workings of Congress, she’d be shown as the dumbass flake she is. This has been Sanders’ playbook for 40 years.
And the Munchkins fill all the lollipop bowls at the banks.
They founded the “who’s your daddy club” too, and made pimping teenage girls as a profession acceptable in black America.
Big Mike does not look like a panther.
Yeah, when you step on a wad of gum it sticks to your bare feet and sometimes right on the floor of Congress!
Kcir – (Trudeau, prime minister blackface 3 times),
“Big Mike does not look like a panther.”
Sure don’t. Big Mike looks like the elusive African Bigfoot.
Don’t confuse me with the facts!!
Wow. Is her face red. She really should have touted the Black Panthers space program or their construction of Wakanda.
“Sorry I started a fight at your black panther party”