Sunday, March 31, 2013

Typifying Latent Possibilities


These young graduates typify latent possibilities in properly raised and properly educated black urban youth. This production must be replicated through home-schooling, church-schooling, peer-schooling, community organizational-schooling, fraternity and sorority-schooling, until the public school mess is resolved in Chicago, if it is ever resolved. "Why we can't wait" on the public schools, to borrow a phrase from Dr. King, (who lost his fight in Chicago to the same intransigence that spawns the young black male killers and mis-education), is reflected in this photograph with utmost clarity.
◎ ▶ The Good, The Bad & The Ugly ● Some Good ● ● ● 100% Four Consecutive Years ● That’s right, (167 seniors) Another full class of Black males in the city of Chicago have not only graduated but have been accepted to college ● Some Bad ● ● ● Why hasn’t this success been duplicated at another school in Chicago? ● Some Ugly ● ● ● The public/private/charter debate rages on while millions of citizens are underserved by the educational system in America. Ideas of choice, cherry picking, costs, equity, segregation, integration, union busting ~ right to work, responsibility, accountability, performance evaluation and the school-to-prison pipeline remain fodder for continual clashes and stalemates, amid the capitalistic bubble wherein zealots and sycophantic believers alike, routinely worship and pander to privatization and the mighty ($)dollar over the common good and general welfare. And still, although all may not be as young as those lost in Newton, too many youth are being killed in Chi-Town; and education cannot be removed from the etiology of this cultural dysfunction
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