Is Education Minnesota a Racist Organization?

Do you remember the ad campaign last Summer and Fall? Schools First? For the DFL, I mean Education Minnesota, the campaign never ended. The ads featured a white, balding, middle aged man named "Mediocrity". He promised to lower standards and eventually destroy Public Education as we know it. Those were some real knee-slapping funny ads.
Well, keeping in mind the fact that Education Minnesota is a Political Action Committee dedicated to self expansion and squeezing the maximum amount of money out of compliant legislators, it's no surprise that the ad campaign is still going strong. You can view the new knee-slapping funny ad at http://www.schoolsfirst.org if you haven't already seen it hundreds of times on local television. The folks at DFL - I mean Education Minnesota, have spent millions of your tax dollars to convince you to tell your government to take more of your money and give it to them. Hey, as Tracy will tell you, it takes money to make money. Your tax dollars, funneled through teachers into the pockets of the union. How do they spend it? On The Children? Or on 58 lobbyists in St. Paul ( Source: Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board)? Your money goes to pay for the million dollar ad campaign on TV. I am not even going to get into the hard data proving increased funding does absolutely nothing to improve academic results. That's coming later. I want to get back to that expensive, (in my opinion) racist ad campaign.
Why do you suppose Education Minnesota chose to create a white, middle aged male to represent "Mediocrity"? How many hundreds of thousands of YOUR dollars did they spend on focus groups and psychologists to find just the right bumbling, yet hateable strawman? It's very reminiscent of the media campaigns during WWII: stereotype, ridicule and manipulate public opinion.
So the next time you see Mediocrity sitting on the bleachers shouting "Put me in!", remember you're paying for it, you have zero evidence that your money will improve anything, and there's a lobbyist in St. Paul who's very grateful. Not to you, to Education Minnesota, a possible racist organization.