The political Right can’t hold a candle to the Left when it comes to indoctrination—bringing refugees to their political view of things.
Nima Abdirahman learns to ride a bike while developing her social consciousness!
In Minnesota (of course, where else!), a non-profit organization is teaching refugees to ride bicycles.
Sounds like a nice thing to do, until you read the description of ‘Cycles for Change’ on their website. (Emphasis is mine)
Cycles for Change is a non-profit organization working at the intersection of social justice and the bicycle movement. We are grounded in the values of equity, justice, inclusion and self-empowerment. We believe it is essential to establish gender equity and safe(r) spaces for underrepresented and marginalized people on bikes. Cycles for Change centers femme, trans, women, and gender non-conforming peoples; and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color; and youth within our work.
Our goal is to create platforms that authentically cultivate leadership development and social consciousness through bicycles and community involvement. Cycles for Change implements a variety of programs to accomplish our goal. Face-to-face connection and creating a welcoming environment are central to all of our programs.
Your money!
And, before I give you a few snips from a story at the MinnPost, I checked a recent ‘Cycles for Change’ Form 990 and found that they received $168,383 in 2016 from government grants. (It looks like the MinnPost reporter didn’t mention the taxpayer funding). It could include federal grants, but I’m thinking that the taxpayers of Minnesota are the ones primarily on the hook here.
From MinnPost:
Immigrants often have a lot to learn when they come to the U.S. — including, for some, how to ride a bike
News headlines these days are filled with dark stories about immigration: children separated from their migrant parents, refugees barred from entering the U.S. and undocumented residents returned to countries they barely know.
But on the tennis court of Matthews Park in Minneapolis, there’s a different kind of story unfolding: half a dozen immigrants from Bosnia, India, Russia and Somalia are catching up on a missed-out childhood experience: riding a bike.
Increasing diversity among bicyclists!
Even in their 30s, 40s and 50s, the student cyclists participate in a month-long program, Learn to Ride, which teaches adults how to bike. It’s a popular program of the Twin Cities-based nonprofit Cycles for Change, which is aimed at increasing diversity among bicyclists in the Twin Cities.
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Though participants include some native-born Americans, most of them are immigrants and refugees from Brazil, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Iran, Jamaica, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Romania, Somalia, South Africa, Turkey and Uganda.
So the next time, there is a push for a new government-funded bike path (through private property), you can bet some of the ‘diverse’ bikers will be front and center at public meetings promoting the idea.
The obliging lapdog media will feature the refugee biker presenting testimony in support of the desperately needed greenline incursion.
It has been a long-time dream of the Left to control all private property!
If you don’t know ‘greenlining’ it is an enviro term. By putting ribbons of publicly-controlled ‘green’ through private property, the takers will eventually demand control of the private property adjacent to the greenline either through zoning or outright condemnation.