I cringe to report that one of my favorite political personalities, County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, deliberately will dive into a nasty, phony mess tomorrow.
A case of dreadful judgment by a normally astute community leader.
A pity.
Sadly, Mr. Ridley-Thomas has consented to address an I Am a Teenage Victim of the Mean Ol’ World Conference that runs from 10 to 2 at Hoffman Hall, the Marshall School of Business, on the USC campus.
Horribly misbehaving children – who have learned from their misguided elders to abdicate personal responsibility while casting themselves as pathetic victims of an unsympathetic world – are the stars of the conference.
According to Mr. Ridley-Thomas’s office, here is the justification for the Woe Is Me hoedown:
The school-to-prison pipeline is a national crisis that is pushing youth, especially boys of color, out of public schools and into the juvenile justice system. In Los Angeles, this pipeline has taken the form of harsh school discipline policies such as the over-reliance on suspensions and expulsions, law enforcement on school campuses, schools that often look and feel like prisons, and the ticketing and criminalization of truancy.
I beg your pardon.
The true national crisis is ill-dressed, arrogant, incivil, crude, anti-social punks who swagger into a classroom and take over because they are not being educated in their broken homes and have no idea how to behave among normal people.
None will dare say that tomorrow. Truth will be left at the door.
Tomorrow is about assembling an ugly stack of trumped-up victims who can blame every person in their circles except themselves.
The Angry Left, in its merciless lifetime crusade for fake victims to canonize, will avoid the truth as if it is an infectious disease.
Morality? They can’t spell it or define it, except with their fists.
You could smell this kind of twisted, disingenuous I Rilly, Rilly Am a Victim circus roaring down the freeway as soon as a – pardon the titter – U.S. Dept. of Education fake-looking “survey” was filed the other day. Titled the Boy, Do We Have a Boatload of Black and Brown Victims report, Part II of the Civuil Rights Data Collection, it purports to blame anyone but the instigators.
The, excuse the expression, collectors, claim to have researched 72,000 high schools spanning 85 percent of American students. You do believe that, don’t you?
My sources say Santa Claus spearheaded the pretend survey, ably assisted by the Easter Bunny, both longtime angry lefties.
The teen thugs and the one or two well-meaning adults at tomorrow’s hoedown will spew enough anger to spare us the sight of another time-waster for at least the rest of the year, I hope.
If you are planning to attend, keep one eye on Kim McGill of the “Youth Justice Coalition.” She is expected to elevate victimhood to Oscar-winning heights, based on her performance last night on KPFK.
