It's so easy--almost fashionable--to cry racism to get what you want nowadays.
Case in point: Chicago's Southside Catholic Conference. It's an athletic league of 21 Catholic grammar schools. Representatives from each school recently voted on whether to admit the St. Sabina School to the league.
The vote was a close 11 to 9, with one school missing the vote. Most of the schools that voted against admitting St. Sabina were concerned for the safety of their children. That's because the neighborhood around St. Sabina has a high crime rate.
Just how high is the crime rate? Many of the conference schools are in Evergreen Park, where there was one murder, seven assaults, and 23 robberies in 1999. In the district where St. Sabina sits, there were 30 murders, 1,877 assaults, and 1,208 robberies that same year!
Reverend Michael Pfleger is the pastor of St. Sabina's Church. His response to the vote not to bring St. Sabina into the league was to cry racism! Racism! All those racist white parents want to keep their kids from interacting with the mostly-black students of St. Sabina.
It's also worth noting that Pfleger's own foster son was killed by stray gang gunfire in the neighborhood. Pfleger insists that kind of violence can happen anywhere, anytime. Sure, Reverend. It can --- but it doesn't. Just check the statistics for from the Chicago Police.
Are Pfleger's accusations of racism working? You bet they are. Officials of the Archdiocese of Chicago agree with Pfleger. Last Thursday, conference officials announced that they'd vote again later in the month.
I think we know how this vote is going to go, now that the race-baiters in Chicago have the local Catholic schools running scared.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/sabi08.html
http://frontpagemag.com/horowitzsnotepad/2001/hn06-08-01.htm
Case in point: Chicago's Southside Catholic Conference. It's an athletic league of 21 Catholic grammar schools. Representatives from each school recently voted on whether to admit the St. Sabina School to the league.
The vote was a close 11 to 9, with one school missing the vote. Most of the schools that voted against admitting St. Sabina were concerned for the safety of their children. That's because the neighborhood around St. Sabina has a high crime rate.
Just how high is the crime rate? Many of the conference schools are in Evergreen Park, where there was one murder, seven assaults, and 23 robberies in 1999. In the district where St. Sabina sits, there were 30 murders, 1,877 assaults, and 1,208 robberies that same year!
Reverend Michael Pfleger is the pastor of St. Sabina's Church. His response to the vote not to bring St. Sabina into the league was to cry racism! Racism! All those racist white parents want to keep their kids from interacting with the mostly-black students of St. Sabina.
It's also worth noting that Pfleger's own foster son was killed by stray gang gunfire in the neighborhood. Pfleger insists that kind of violence can happen anywhere, anytime. Sure, Reverend. It can --- but it doesn't. Just check the statistics for from the Chicago Police.
Are Pfleger's accusations of racism working? You bet they are. Officials of the Archdiocese of Chicago agree with Pfleger. Last Thursday, conference officials announced that they'd vote again later in the month.
I think we know how this vote is going to go, now that the race-baiters in Chicago have the local Catholic schools running scared.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/sabi08.html
http://frontpagemag.com/horowitzsnotepad/2001/hn06-08-01.htm
