Dick Durbin graduated from Assumption High School in East St Louis Illinois...a Catholic school.
He managed to avoid learning much there, however... I know an old feller [a genuine practicing Catholic] who attended the same school and the guy detests Durbin, in part he says because Durbin ran with a bad crowd of teens who would harass blacks. Back then East St. Louis was a pretty nice town, people could walk in the streets safely... UNLESS they were black and Dick and his friends were driving around. Apparently they had a “game” they called n___ polo where they would hang out the car window and swat black pedestrians they drove past with sticks. Maybe some were worth more points than others... then they’d brag later to try and make themselves look tough.
It’s cruel crap like that which soured race relations in the St. Louis area.
Oh, how far East St. Louis has fallen! 900 years ago, when it was called Cahokia, it was the largest city north of the Rio Grande.