Alder-Racists (Present and Past)

Imagine if Ed Burke said something like this in public:

• When a Chicago Park District lifeguard was accused of shooting and killing a teenager at Douglass Park in late June, Ald. Monique Scott (24th) and her brother, former Ald. Michael Scott, weren’t surprised.

  Both had served as Douglass Park supervisors and feared something like this would happen, they contend, because the park district has too few lifeguards, too little staff training and inadequate park security.

  And, they say, part of the problem lies in assigning white and Latino lifeguards to pools in African American neighborhoods.

Seriously.

• “There’s a certain way you have to deal with these kids,” Monique Scott said. “They’re going to give you a hard time. You need to have an authoritative presence without disrespect. You’ve got to know how to talk to these kids and not demean them.”

  Scott said she got a call recently from a South Side park supervisor who reported that a Latino lifeguard had walked off the job after declaring that he “can’t work with these kinds of people.”

Seriously:

• “If you don’t have a strong lifeguard, and the guard doesn’t look like the community they’re serving, there’s a problem,” said Michael Scott, who is now a Cook County commissioner.

Gee, we've sarcastically suggested exactly this many times after the brain-dead politicians complain about the racial makeup of certain Districts, conveniently ignoring the fact that once an Officer gets some seniority under their belt, they bid the Hell out of crappy high-crime Districts for someplace the citizens appreciate the police presence.

And the "demean[ing]" behavior noticed by aldermoron Scott (both the current idiot and the previous) is a two way street. We could tell stories about Michael running back years in the 24th ward - the disrespect he dished out was nothing short of epic. Much of it comes down to parenting....or lack of, but Eric Holder and Sparklefarts told us we weren't ready for that discussion.

You know what we dream? We look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. 

And guess who's lacking in character content the past six-plus decades?