Voicemail a new twist in SICA split.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

"A Lincoln-Way school board member will be asked to resign in the wake of allegations that she left a racist message on a Chicago reporter's cell phone.

District 210 board member Maureen Jagmin is accused of using the term "poor blackie" and calling a mostly black, south suburban school a "zoo" in a phone message quoted by the Sun-Times in Tuesday's editions."

Read the rest here:
http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsindex/02-ds2.htm

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[XNASA]

1. Been out to Mokena, Frankfort, Tinley, Orland or New Lenox lately?

It's no surprise. The area is heavily populated by people who have participated in white flight. Only this time, they didn't flee the city.....they fled the inner south suburbs. You know who I'm talking about.

I can't hardly stand going to SW Cook county. Racists, homophobes, pickup trucks, anti-choice placards and signs litter the landscape.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

3. Yes, XNASA, I do know who you are talking about,

many relatives and friends of mine.

What makes me so angry is that if you go back two or three generations in these people's families, they were the ones being discriminated against. BUT, they forget about that!!!!

Right before the November election I had to go out to Mokena to pick up some parts for my husband. I decided to avoid LaGrange Road so I took Oak Park Avenue out to 191st Street to get where I was going.

As I was driving down Oak Park Avenue through Tinley Park, the number of B/C sign absolutely appalled me. Many were on the McMansions that have been built in TP since the early 1990's but a lot of them where in the older section of Tinley as well.

Remember the controversy last year over the mosque being built in Orland Park? That made me want to vomit.

BTW, I hope Lisa Madigan's office does do something about this situation with the SICA. It's so blatantly racist!

[XNASA]

6. La Grange Road is a mess.

There's more traffic in Orland Park than there is on the Northside of Chicago.

As for the SICA situation. Yes, it is partially racist. However, the schools that are seceding are not all mostly white. Both of the schools in Joliet have more than 50% minorities and H-F, which is where my tax money and kids go is a very integrated school. I know when people think of H-F, they must think it's snowy white, but that's not the case.

But H-F does have more in common with Sandburg and Andrew than it does with Thornton or Eisenhower. H-F needs to be in league with other schools that have the same kinds of programs that frankly, some of the schools in the SE part of Cook do not.

Besides, 30 schools is just to much to keep together. I'm surprised they've stayed together this long.

[elehhhhna]

4. We moved from SW Subs to HOUSTON to escape the hillbilllies.

[XNASA]

5. Yeah. I've done that.

Actually, we're from Homewood and are now back after a 6 year stint in Houston. Not many hillbillies in Homewood though.

How do you like Houston? We lived in Clear Lake, El Lago to be exact. Which 'burb were you from?

[elehhhhna]

7. Near Sugar Land--

How can you stand the COLD after living here? Isn't DT CHGO cleaner than ever (way to go RItchie!)? and will you send me an Aurelio's pizza asap? And Sanfortello's ? (sp?)

Houston suburbs imho are better than Chgo suburbs (were Lincoln park then Oak Forest...)but if I won the lottery I'd spend summers (July, anyway) in Chicago, near the lakefront...

[XNASA]

8. I might ask, "How can you stand the summers?"

There are many more pleasant days per year in Chicago than in Houston. Way more. You know, those perfect summer days when it stays light out until almost 10 o'clock. It never happens in Houston.

I don't mind the cold, it's never stopped my from doing anything I've wanted to do and that includes camping. As the saying goes, you can always puts on warmer clothes, but there's only so many you can take off.

It's impossible to camp in Houston except for couple of weeks in the Spring and a couple in the Fall. Summer camping? Forget it. Winter camping...the weather's not bad if it's not raining, but it gets dark at 5PM. There's never an ideal time to go.

Torrential rains, looming threat of a hurricane for 8 months, a summer heat that reminds me of the inside of an autoclave, air so thick and foul that it's difficult to breath, mold, bugs the size of a fist, poisonous snakes, etc....no thanks. Glad you like it, and we didn't mind for a couple of years. But after a while we wanted out.

And one more thing.......the worst drivers in any city in the country that doesn't have public transportation. You have no choice. If you want to go anywhere, you must drive with idiots.

That said, I still have a lot of great friends in Houston and will be down in May for a wedding.

End of rant.

[elehhhhna]

9. Dag! Are we talking about the same Houston?

Probably--the driving rant matches up.

I LOVE the heat! HATE cold and snow! I find this weather much better than 9 months of gloom. I'd raher run from the house to the pool on a 100 degree day than scrape the car off anmd kick the frozen back-door open anytime! You have a point about those gorgeous late summer evenings up there--I long for home when it's October here, because it feels like summer in Chicago then.

I'll always miss the pizza, downtown, and the lakeshore, though.
Always. We'll be up there in early June. Hope it's not 60 and raining.

[Tweed]

2. I was thinking of posting that

It's a good thing I didn't. We would have dupes!

Terrible story. She ought to resign or be forced out.