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School Suspensions Should Be Based on Color, Not Behavior

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Were it not for my liberal friends and their unintentionally humorous politics, what would a hungry normal person do for laughs?

The pointy-headed boys and girls clustered their noggins around the campfire last Thursday and decided on the theme for this week’s war against average Americans:

It would center on the gosh-darned unfairness of schools’ punishments meted out to non-white students for behaving like yahoos.

You know the drama is a big fat deal when President Passive Obama and Eric (Be) Holder will interrupt their nightly Ripple-swilling tiddly-winks games in the alley behind the White House to join the protest.

The spasmodically reliable Los Angeles Titanic reported yesterday that civil rights leaders the length and breadth of our republic are petitioning Gov. Brown to sign off on legislation that would restrict school suspensions for ugly behavior to children of certain ethnicities.

Look at That Tummy

Roger Dickinson, reported to be yet another chubby liberal – naturally – from Sacramento, has designed a silly bill by the light of the silvery moon that would forbid school administrators from expelling certain ethnicities among students hoodlum students for willful defiance.

Sounds like something a save-the-world Democrat would dream up in his ample free time while awaiting his next shipment of food stamps, doesn’t it? It is known as the Ed Schultz Bill.

Too many non-white students are getting tossed, the civil rights leaders – lacking evidence but not emotion – concluded.

I love the liberals’ new favorite fake fallback term. This should be enunciated in the dramatic voice of the late Bill Buckley, “a disproportionate” number of non-white students are thrown out of school for acting like apprentice criminals.

As all mamas and papas who have brought more than one child into the world realize, all boys and all girls grow up with identical values and perform exactly alike in all cases as long as they are alive, and sometimes even after.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is precisely what liberals believe. They have to speak emotionally to mask their intellectual shallowness, which, of course, brings us back to Swish Obama and his favorite lawman, Sheriff P.U. Holder.

Pardon My Partisanship

Mr. Holder actually said the following (thanks to powerlineblog.com):

We’ve often seen that students of color, students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and students with special needs are disproportionately likely to be suspended or expelled. This is, quite simply, unacceptable… These unnecessary and destructive policies must be changed.

Unfortunately, to the extent that black school children as a group receive a “disparate” quality of parenting (e.g., more parenting without a father, more parenting by an extremely young mother, more parenting by drug addicts), the only way to avoid disparities in school discipline is to stop meting out disciplinary action or to discipline white students based on standards more stringent than those applied to blacks.

Not exactly a poster child for He Who Must Be Obeyed, Mr. Scofflaw J. Holder speaks as the most prominent flaunter of the law in contemporary public life – this side of Cairo.

Mr. Holder’s ignorant statement should meet the same fate as a mouthful of unwelcome hot sauce.

What this twisted man’s twisted mind is saying is as racist as the KKK charter: “Only white boys and girls should penalized for thug behavior because my side does not know any better.”

Jesse Jackson, the poor man’s Al Sharpton who believes in leading by example, returned from visiting his imprisoned son and daughter-in-law and said, semi-piously:

“We need to lift our children up, not lock them up, not throw them away.”

As all liberals know, poor non-white children don’t know how to act in polite company. They only should be winked at.

The Titanic found that in the most recent year for which LAUSD records are available, 26 percent of the students thrown out of school were black.  That, gosh darn it, was disproportionate because blacks are only 9 percent of the student population.

Just wondering: What if America’s most famous non-black, plus-white Hispanic, George Zimmerman, had been among the suspended students.

Which side would he count against? Hmmm?

Civil rights leaders pondered the dilemma until the light changed. Then they walked away confused.