Whitewash in South Philly
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Whitewash in South Philly
You'll be shocked, shocked to learn that the school's district's long-awaited report on racial violence against Asian students in South Philly High is a complete joke:
Giles' report did not assign blame to school officials, but it did make recommendations for change, including banning hoodies at school, providing students with an anonymous tipline to report violence, and placing sufficient cameras at South Philadelphia High School. Some of the suggested changes, such as putting more cameras in place, have already been made.
Although students and community members say there has long been violence against immigrant students, Giles was directed to only investigate the incidents of Dec. 2 and 3, he said. He termed his work "a general overview and not a specific fact-finding undertaking as to individual student culpability."
And the punchline is still Arlene Ackerman:
Both Giles and Superintendent Arlene Ackerman said that it was important to focus on the future, not the past.
"It would take us another 10 years to find out all the intricacies of what happened," Ackerman said at a news conference. "Let's move forward."
There's your mantra for the 2010s, people: "Let's move forward." The CEOs who gambled and lost billions of dollars of our money on 4 a.m. casino bets are still employed and getting huge bonuses because, well, um, "Let's move forward!" Our highest officials can flagrantly disregard established laws and order waterboarding and other forms of torture, dragging America's good name through the muck, but seriously, nothing to see here, folks..."Let's move forward!" A racially motivated mob can rampage through a high school in Philadelphia for two days, amid a much longer climate of violence and harassment, even from adult staffers, and not only is no one from the school district accountable but none of the perps is even arrested.
Let's move forward!
No one could get away with this in his or her own life: Could you imagine having an affair or losing your kid in the mall for a couple of hours and telling your spouse nothing beyond "let's move forward!"? Good luck with that. But in our public life, no accountability is demanded of anyone. And people wonder why our public life keeps getting progresively more appalling.
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The flash mob at Macy's? Let's move forward.— doublestandard- Wow! An article written by WIll Bunch I actually liked!— Landfill
- will, when did you suddenly decide that people should be accountable for your actions?! they'll take your liberal decoder ring away from you...
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- Sounds like the National Motto "Ignore and forget the past" No torture, no war crimes, no rendition, no evesdropping, no legal rights. Thank you Caesar Bush and Emperor Obama— jtw
- ///Let's move forward!/// Except for our president. He likes to make sure we never forget about the past... administration.— General_Turgidson
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- ---}}} Except for our president. He likes to make sure we never forget about the past... administration. {{{--- ---}}} Good point, Buck. That's why Obama is expending so many resources to prosecute members of the past administration for tort... What? Oh. Sorry. Nevermind.— Talking point sleuth
- "My favorite part is when they shout about Lincoln being a dictator and everyone cheers wildly" Lincoln instituted the draft, and sent thousands to their death. Forced conscription. Think about that. Some people aren't thrilled with that idea.— RG
- Oh, he also suspended habeus corpus.— RG
- Yeah, and that whole emancipation proclamation was a real overstep of presidential powers too, huh RG? Imagine that, the hubris of abolishing slavery. And how about that part of the clip where they talk about how secessionists are portrayed so unfairly, RG? I never realized how folks who really understand the Constitution realize that the only patriotic thing for Texas to do is to secede. LOL!— Talking point sleuth
- Good post Will...If you give me half and half politically, you can count on me to be a daily reader...And if you do it for an extended period of time, I might even order the paper version... :)— will_wonders_never_cease
"Both Giles and Superintendent Arlene Ackerman [and President Obama] said that it was important to focus on the future, not the past. "It would take us another 10 years to find out all the intricacies of what happened," Ackerman said at a news conference. "Let's move forward." But in the case of what really was the reason for the Iraq war, how we came to use torture, and why it was proper to bypass the law on electronic eavesdropping, we might get the results in 10 months instead of 10 years--provided someone with power to punish the malefactors actually did the investigation and followed through.- Lincoln also ok'd the targeting of civilian infrastructure. Apparently, you are ok with all of these tactics. Or you're just blowing hot air again, complaining about critics of a long dead president. On a post that underlines a massive failure of the public school system. You always focus on the important stuff, Glenn Beck, the Tea Partiers, critics of Lincoln. One would think you'd be touting all those wonderous achievements of the guy actually in office.— RG
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