01776
Sudbury, Massachusetts
Last week, just as the school day was beginning, a fifteen year old student killed his sixteen year old classmate in the hallway near the bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury High School. The town is in shock and the surrounding area is more shocked . Everyone wonders how a brutal stabbing takes place in Sudbury, an upper middle class town. This is not supposed to happen in this zip code!!
Inner city school slayings of other American children make the headlines everyday but not in Sudbury's front yard. If a child is not blonde, blue- eyed or white, in general, is lost or hurt it is rarely more than a one day story. Molly Bish, a fifteen year old life guard, abducted and murdered five years ago has been kept alive in the press. She was a very beautiful blond girl. The media has made the decision to cover blond abductees and murder victims and even, female criminal defendants, mostly.
Last night the parents of the Lincoln-Sudbury High gathered to discuss the details of the murder and the background of the alleged student perpetrator who is a special needs student from Princeton, Massachusetts --- 01541. They comforted each other and asked the school's officials if the student from outside the district should really be enrolled in the Sudbury (01776) high school.
Misery respects no boundaries. Crimes follow no zip code maps but tones and caring in media coverage of incidents in upper income communities is impressive. Its almost as if the media 's attitude and the society's attitude is if you don't live in certain places the losses of your children and loved ones is not important.
I stand in sympathy and solidarity for ALL the parents who been hurt this past week in Sudbury.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Supreme Court Seeks To Legally Resegregate Public Schools
Hello Readers
I happen to have come across a few sentences in the Boston Globe's coverage of Deval Patrick, the new Massachusetts governor's comments at today's Martin Luther King breakfast that say the Bush administration has taken the side of parents in Louisville, Kentucky and Seattle, Washington who are suing because school assignment has a racial component.
The Washington Post has covered very well the current Bush administration's the systematic removal of as many as possible traditional and long -term staffers in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Enforcement Division. The watering down of its mission to protect us all and minority groups ,in particular, has resulted taking only a handful of anti-discrimination cases and usually, as in this case protecting white rights from enormous(???) minority powers.
Can this nation return to the infamous days before the end of legal segregation ???? The lawsuit now being heard by the Supreme Court and that most reasonable of fellows, Justice Roberts who really only said his name at the Senate confirmation hearings. I believe Roberts may now have the chance to show the true sides of himself that Bush and the Conservatives know well as all of America can decipher NOW. Overturning Brown v Board of Education is the return to yesteryear ,however it may be spun, that many have been waiting for and many, many more than are willing to admit it would be glad for.
***Deval Patrick is a s former Justice department staffer in Civil Rights Enforcement
I happen to have come across a few sentences in the Boston Globe's coverage of Deval Patrick, the new Massachusetts governor's comments at today's Martin Luther King breakfast that say the Bush administration has taken the side of parents in Louisville, Kentucky and Seattle, Washington who are suing because school assignment has a racial component.
The Washington Post has covered very well the current Bush administration's the systematic removal of as many as possible traditional and long -term staffers in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Enforcement Division. The watering down of its mission to protect us all and minority groups ,in particular, has resulted taking only a handful of anti-discrimination cases and usually, as in this case protecting white rights from enormous(???) minority powers.
Can this nation return to the infamous days before the end of legal segregation ???? The lawsuit now being heard by the Supreme Court and that most reasonable of fellows, Justice Roberts who really only said his name at the Senate confirmation hearings. I believe Roberts may now have the chance to show the true sides of himself that Bush and the Conservatives know well as all of America can decipher NOW. Overturning Brown v Board of Education is the return to yesteryear ,however it may be spun, that many have been waiting for and many, many more than are willing to admit it would be glad for.
***Deval Patrick is a s former Justice department staffer in Civil Rights Enforcement
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