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Cautionary Tale

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If you have some time this Saturday afternoon, I highly recommend reading this long article about a bout of collective insanity that descended upon a small town in Illinois. Overcome with rage as a result of two relentless years of BLM propaganda, the town’s residents hounded two innocent children and their families.

A story of adults persecuting two very young children for absolutely no reason is painful to read. Two years of harsh lockdowns and racial hysteria in the media took away the capacity of the residents of Evansville, Illinois to put some brakes on their emotions. We should look at this as an important cautionary tale. I keep repeating that when we allow ourselves to become a raging maw of emotion and need, things go poorly. That’s why we are encouraged to emote and have no self-control.

Let’s read this important story and calm down already. Let’s all calm down or we’ll turn into the residents of Evansville.

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    Anonymous

    Thank you for posting this article. It’s sad but, alas, not surprising.
    One minor correction to your introduction to the article: the city is Evanston, Illinois, not Evansville.

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      Clarissa

      Sorry, going nuts. Evanston, of course.

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    According to Klotz, after Superintendent Horton sent out the first email about the hate crime, parents immediately forgot that the school had been the scene of a riot earlier that day, as students protested the transfer of teachers, leading to chaos in the halls and students leaving the building without permission. “We got a bunch of violence going on at this school, and now all of a sudden this happened, and nobody talked anything about any of those things ever again,” he said. “It was hate crime, hate crime, hate crime, hate crime.”

    One former Haven teacher who has worked in the district for over a decade agreed with that. “It is a better story,” she said, “the idea that the community still has so much growing to do, and there’s still so much racism.”

    On May 23, 2022, while police were still conducting their investigation, the Evanston school board held a regular public meeting where community members and activists piled in to demand “accountability.”

    In the summer of 2023, one year after the “hate crime” incident, Horton left Haven to run the DeKalb County School District in the Atlanta suburbs. During his three-year tenure as school superintendent of Evanston, he had implemented some equity initiatives, maintaining lucrative contracts with equity consultants like the Pacific Educational Group, and introducing “restorative justice” practices in schools that prioritize “community” and view discipline as a “last resort.”

    But it’s unclear what, if any, impact these programs had on educational outcomes for students of color.

    Last November, a district-wide “Equity Progress Indicator” report showed that the racial achievement gap in Evanston has actually been widening.

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    But Horton did enjoy one notable achievement: In November 2022, just six months after the Haven “hate crime” incident, the National Alliance of Black School Educators named him “Superintendent of the Year.”

    To Mike Klotz, Devon Horton is “a comic book-level villain” who used a story about a hate crime to distract the people of Evanston from his own incompetence.

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    “Hate crimes”! How come nobody sees – and what’s worse, nobody denounces – this Orwellian bullshit term for a bullshit concept?

    I have no sympathy for the Klotzes – extreme liberals who sent their children to a black-dominated public school as an extreme act of virtue signalling – it’s just that this time they were on the “wrong” end of the stick. Poor klutzes!

    It is precisely extreme white liberals like the Klotzes who have nurtured, fostered, fomented and encouraged so-called anti-racists on the terrain which self-labelled black “leaders” have been exploiting all along for their very own personal self-enrichment like the scheming scamming scoundrels that they are, which they have proved to be again and again.

    But then I am a conservative guy living in Europe, so what would I know?

    Well, I know this much: that whether liberal or conservative, too many white Americans are still stuck in the warped Puritan mindset of the Salem witch trials, and that until they stop aiding and abetting the cons that pullulate within the Negro population there will be no hope of a post-racial country, since stirring up racial sensitivity seems to serve both groups very well. Blacks are pulling the whites’ heartstrings and playing their bleeding-heart sensibility for all it’s worth, and rightly so.

    P.S. As a final note, the group of “Ex-Cons for whatever”, who organised the event outside the school was just too comical for words: only witless Americans would be able to come up with such an idiotic moniker and not see the monstrous irony. America really is the land of the UN-self-conscious.

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      It’s definitely the legacy of Salem raising its ugly head again and again. What bothers me a lot is that these people inflicted COVID lockdowns and BLM on us and there’s no accountability. Now they say they went too far and we all pretend like it’s ok just to move on.

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