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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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Hold your horses here folks. I’m no fan of wokeness but I don’t think it’s accurate to describe these events as “segregated graduation ceremonies”. When you use the term segregation you imply that this is comparable to the Jim Crow South where racial segregation was mandatory and enforced by law. If THAT kind of segregation were still in force, black, white, Latino, Asian, and LGBT students would all be required to attend ONLY “their” graduation ceremony and that would be the only ceremony they could have. However, the university announcement of these events says: “Participation in these ceremonies is completely… Read more »
Elaine, forced segregation is worse for the reasons you say, but voluntary segregation is still segregation, and properly called that, as it is all the time in housing and many other things. There’s no mandatory segregation on anything now because it is illegal, but some things are still segregated. This is another example of how the modern left abandoned the goal of colorblindness.
I agree that the modern left has abandoned the goal of colorblindness and I wouldn’t say that these officially sanctioned “segregated” graduations are necessarily a good idea. However, when you say “voluntary segregation is still segregation”, where do you draw the line between that and the right of free association?
Great question, Elaine. IMO, voluntary segregation is fine in some instances. Particular ethnic groups may choose to congregate in some ways. Part of Chicago’s attraction, I’d say, has long been its distinctive neighborhoods — Chinatown, Hispanic areas, Vietnamese, etc. Boystown for gays. Same, perhaps, for various interest groups or certain kinds of clubs. But there’s a line that has to be drawn between that and excessive tribalism. Certainly, it seems to me, a graduation ceremony is different — a celebration of a mutual milestone where all are going out into the world together. Universities and schools, especially, should be places… Read more »
Totally agree, Mark.
How would a ‘White Caucus,’ or ‘White McDonald’s Owners’ group go over? They’d be excoriated as racist, yet substitute ‘Black’ and you have active recognized organizations,
The list is endless, but put ‘White’ in those group names, and it’s racist.
So much for the much touted ‘inclusivity.’
Behold the “progress” of woke “progressives.”
Silly me! I thought segregation was bad and eliminated by the Civil Rights legislation.
Guess I have to re-read history – I wonder what the revisionist history says on the topic.
Also, if I was graduating from ISU, I’d organize a nice unsegregated gathering for school friends to say farewell, and skip the graduation ceremony. It’s not worth the price or time.
This is anti-American; Dr. King weeps along with President Lincoln and scores of abolitionists.
Stupid chickens.
The place is a dump. One of my children went there for 1 year. They over sold housing, over sold the ability of the teaching system to serve the students they took in, so the education stinks. The living conditions were worse, they filled the dorm floor lounges with student sleeping rooms, causing over capacity for everything. Many of the “students” are borrowing money, with no plan to pay it back, because they don’t want to go to work and spend their days there wondering around, eating and getting high. These students take space and resources for others. ISU could… Read more »
Can we get separate water fountains too? /s
A story, bear with me. My daughter went to ISU and was lucky enough to get a small scholarship award (2K) from an established endowment. There was a ceremony and we attended. Maybe 12 different scholarships were being awarded from different causes and the donors called up the respective recipients and read about why and listed accomplishments etc, grades, volunteer activities, sports, family and such. Polite applause after each presentation. There was one black recipients and the black donor went to the podium and in summary it was “we got some money here for, name of recipient, but I don’t… Read more »
Yet more “division” from the party of “inclusiveness”…
Public universities holding segregated graduation ceremonies based on race-n-gender identity. Public universities…. Next up, I suppose, will be segregated graduation ceremonies based on age, religion, political beliefs, or the student’s NBA, NFL or MLB team of choice. And, of course, then you’ll need individually segregated ceremonies for the various combinations of all the different snowflake accommodation and vanity enhancement DIE criteria. One for Black, over 30, non-binary, members of the BLM Protesturnical Galuthumpian Reform Church. Another for Hispanic, undocumented immigrant members of the We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges Coalition. Another for the – well, you get the picture. Mel… Read more »
Blazing Wokeness!
Who’s Idea was this?
Administrators are getting title IX money too to promote garbage DIE. I’m guessing that the system radicalized a small group of teachers and students and incentivized the same group to threaten the indifferent kids into compliance with DIE. The end result of this assumed coercion is a vapid claim that the students demanded it. LOL
If I were a virulent racist, I would love this!!!
Illinois State should be a top rated public university. It is not. The school can go about implementing segregated functions but why is it that they have failed to become a truly rigorous and competitive institution? They would seem to be a good candidate to become a Virginia Tech in relation to University of Virginia. Again, where have they gone wrong?
It has a reputation as a teacher factory, where every middling student with a 19 ACT score can get a degree in elementary school woke indoctrination. Beyond this, these schools are located in dumpy towns. I wasn’t alive when the towns were chosen to host the new public universities but whatever has happened in the decades since has not been good. Macomb, Charleston, Dekalb, Bloomington-Normal, are awful college towns, there’s not really any compelling reason to spend four awful years in a cornfield town attending a midling university. Even the regional WI state universities are located in OK-ish decent towns,… Read more »
Harvey State…..
“Decrepit” Decatur already has Millikin University, with about 2,000 students, and Richland Community College with about 3,000 students, so I guess they’re about halfway to having a 10,000 student university as it is.
ISU has “a reputation as a teacher factory” because it was founded in 1855 as a “normal school”, i.e., a teacher training institution similar to the French “ecole normale”. It was still called Illinois State Normal University prior to 1970. That’s also how the Town of Normal got its name.