THE MESS – OVERNIGHT:  You know we're in trouble when an all-black school council is accused of upholding white supremacy.  But, of course, it's Chicago we're talking about.  From College Fix: 

Public school officials in Chicago will let each campus decide if it will keep school resource officers for the fall.

But at least some majority black schools have indicated they want the cops in the building, with one council being accused of “upholding white supremacy.”

Ahead of the discussions and votes that will likely take place throughout the coming months, Chicago Public School students rallied to demand that the police be removed from the schools. CPS board members are appointed by the mayor, but schools have councils that can make some decisions.

One student from Kenwood Academy, on the city’s South Side, said her school council’s decision to keep SROs last year “enforces trauma on students and conditions us to be criminalized.”

“The decision was not made on any basis besides adultism and internalized racism,” Judai Smith said, according to DePaul University’s paper, The DePaulia. “The decision really emphasized for me how this current educational system does not serve the wellbeing of youth but to uphold white supremacy.”

The College Fix could not locate contact information for Smith and The DePaulia did not respond to a request for her information.

The entire council appears to be black and 83 percent of the students are “Afro-American” according to the demographics page for the school.

The College Fix reached out to council members Montel Gayles and Ramona Burress several times through email to ask about their response to the accusation and if they planned again to keep the Chicago Police Department members in the school.

COMMENT:  So, even black kids stand accused of promoting white supremacy.  That's how sick our educational system has become.   Only voters at the polls can stop this, if the election count is legitimate.

June 19, 2022