Black History Month looks less hopeful along 47th Street

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | February 14, 2005 | LAURA WASHINGTON

[esoxmagnum]

excellent synopsis

[joesnuffy]

The kind the Jimmy Walker's JJ "dyno mite" Evans character painted in the tv series 'Good Times'

Very robusty and well apportioned down souths...

[Anvilhead]

Thanks, its easy when you have the FReeper standard to work with. Nothing makes me work harder then the threat of ridicule by FRiends who are more intelligent.

[DMZFrank]

Another liberal semi-Marxist Democrat tyranically acting as the gatekeeper of her constituent's economic and social prospects. So what else is new? Nothing to see here, let's move on.

[mafree]

I would first find out what she intends to teach and how. What does your child understand about race/racial differences? Many 6 year olds know nothing and it may be a disservice to introduce them to it that young. If he will be taught about certain Black historical figures in ways that his mind/emotions can comprehend that would be OK, IMO. Otherwise, the slavery stuff can wait.

[mafree]

This almost seems like an odd yearning for the segregated past.

I think it's more a yearning for a once-thriving, once close-knit neighborhood that never recovered from LBJ's "Great Society" and its beneficiaries like Ald. Tillman.