Racists Under The Eaves
By Mitch Berg
The piece is from last week – I was a bit remiss in not linking it back then, and I plead overwork – but Sheila Kihne has been unpacking the unholy alliance of “community organizers” and liberal churches in bringing stifling PC to the parts of Minnesota that actually pay their own way:
The Star Trib today featured another installation of it’s ongoing series on the wannabe martyr of suburban school reform, Eden Prairie Superintendent Melissa Krull. (Michelle Rhee she is not, but she’s sure trying hard to attain the same level of national adoration.) Our good friend Myron Orfield was back too with this Christmas message of goodwill:
From this article.
“This is a big decision for the school board and for the region — whether we’re going to have racially integrated school districts,” Orfield said. ”The implications [if the proposed plan fails] will be that there are a group of white racist parents who can stop integration in schools.”
I try very, very hard not to question intent. I try to believe that people are inherently good. But this statement is really beyond the pale.
But the lines for “the pale” have been pushed out to the point where demigogues like Orfield do believe slandering those who stand in their way is perfectly acceptable.
Read the rest of Sheila’s piece. She had a great 2010; 2011 should rock.
