You’d think two wanted criminals named Ty and Tisa Yiyara, would be part of the immigrant crime phenomenon.

But they’re not, they’re part of the Afrocentric education phenomenon. Here’s a 1998 story from an African-American community newspaper, the Los Angeles Sentinel:

Elevating the vision of African-centered education, Enlightened Minds School is an independent/alternative institution that teaches African American children from a holistic approach. Co-founder and part owner, Tisa Yiyara, calls the school a “God project”–and there isn’t any doubt divine intervention has played a major role to the success of the barely two-month old school because the program is an excellent one.[11-11-1998 The God Project: Enlightened Minds School Gives Alternatives, Los Angeles Sentinel ]

Here’s what the LAPD has to say about Ty Yiyara, who is believed armed and dangerous:

Suspects were principal and vice-principal of grade school facility and lured and convinced victim(s) into having sexual relations with them over an extended period of time. All sexual acts took place in the suspects motor home. Victims were minors. Suspect is a registered sex offender. Also, he maybe traveling with co-suspect Yiyara, Tisa.

And here’s almost the only news report I could find about the case on the Internet:

Police Hunt School’s Founders in Sex Case Crime: Missing couple lied about their identities, authorities say, and left students without a campus.

By HUGO MARTIN, LA Times, May 14, 2000 [LA Times pay archive version]

Ty Yiyara claimed to be a former Air Force captain with a master’s degree in social work from Dallas Baptist University. He and his wife, Tisa, founded a private Afrocentric school in South Los Angeles two years ago, saying they wanted to improve the educational atmosphere for inner-city children.

Their Enlightened Minds School was granted nonprofit status by the state and received funding from a national scholarship program. Last year, Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan awarded the school founders a proclamation praising them for their “outstanding work as educators and mentors.”

But police say Yiyara is an impostor and a convicted sex offender with no apparent military record, whose real name is Joseph Horace Green. They say that the master’s degree, which he posted at the school, was bought through a mail-order catalog.

Green, 34, and his wife, whose real name is Channell Nicola Warren, 25, disappeared in early April after a 16-year-old student at the school told police they had sexually molested her.

When the couple abandoned the school, they left five full-time teachers out of work and the parents of 50 students scrambling to continue their lessons for the remainder of the school year.

“There was a real Jekyll and Hyde thing going on,” said Los Angeles Police Department Det. Wes Potter, who has been trying to locate the couple since prosecutors issued arrest warrants April 12. A nationwide search is underway for the couple, who face a total of 13 sex charges.

Last night I spent about an hour in studio with the famous Terry Anderson–and I had a blast!

Most VDARE.com readers are more than familiar with his weekly radio show on KRLA AM870 (Sundays 9 PM) but for those of you who are not, you must tune in! Terry is engaging, informative and downright hysterical.

I listen to his show whenever I get the chance and he is by far my favorite…in fact, one has to wonder why a radio personality of his caliber is not promoted and exalted in the same manner as say, Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly.

Hmmm…ask Craig Edwards, Program Manager at KRLA. [Email him]

Crikey, the phone lines were jammed before the show even began which is a bit of a rarity in talk radio. Calls came in from all over California as well as Tennessee, Nevada and Michigan just to name a few far away states.

Like VDARE.com, The Terry Anderson Show is privately funded by listeners which is–as I mentioned on his show last night–a doubled-edged sword.

It is wonderful to not face censorship from some politically correct, NBC-like conglomerate but by the same token, those conglomerates have a lot of money. Support the Terry Anderson Show if you can by clicking here (and VDARE.com, of course here).

P.S. A special “shout out” (keepin’ it real) to Les Blenkhorn, producer extraordinaire of the Terry Anderson Show.

There are couple of good stories about Dr. John Tanton in the media, one by Jonathon Tilove, of Newhouse News, and one from the progressive environmentalist magazine In These Times.

1. Keeping America Empty |How one small-town conservationist launched today’s anti-immigration movement, In These Times, April 24, 2006
2. Father of Anti-Immigration Movement Awaits History’s Judgment, By Jonathan Tilove, Newhouse News Service

Both stories are quite fair, although the In These Times writer indulges in a little sniping.

(Dr. Tanton has a been the victim of a lot of unfairness over the years)

They both deal with the apparent disconnect between moderately liberal politics and immigration restrictionists. There is one quote that has caused some confusion, where Peter Brimelow is quoted [here]as saying

“FAIR is a big problem,” says Peter Brimelow, an anti-immigration activist who runs the Web site VDARE.com, “because its natural constituency is conservative nationalists, but its operatives are basically liberal and centrist and terrified by Pat Buchanan.”

Peter is travelling, but he called me from the road, and and explained that what he meant to say, (and may actually have said, as you know if you’ve heard all the jokes about his accent) is not that “FAIR is a big problem,” but that “FAIR has a big problem” with people who may support their immigration position but differ on other political ideas.

Vdare.com tries to maintain a coalition attitude, and there’s a reason for that. Sam Francis wrote a story in 2002 that pointed out that

“91 percent of the American public believe mass immigration is a critical or important threat to the country in the next decade.”10/24/02 - Poll Exposes Elite-Public Clash On Immigration

When 91 percent of the public think something, it’s beyond liberal or conservative. That’s larger than the Republican and Democratic parties combined. And that’s why we’re always happy to cooperate with FAIR, which does a lot of good work.

However, the reverse is also the case: there’s a “bipartisan” consensus among elites, which in the poll Sam cited means that the editors of the Wall Street Journal and the editors of the New York Times, along with

members of Congress and their top staffers, top-level executives of federal government agencies, corporate CEO’s, union presidents, religious leaders, college presidents and faculty, presidents of think tanks and foundations, and editors, columnists, and television commentators.

all agree that immigration is good for you. Shut up and eat your arugala!

When you have that kind of situation, you can’t afford to reject allies, even if they don’t always agree with you.

Anyhow, read the articles, especially Tilove’s. Dr. Tanton deserves a lot more honor than he’s received over the years.