The recent news about incidents involving racial bullying in our schools concerns many Cook County residents including me. Anyone who attended the first rally to protest these incidents understands that this is a serious, ongoing problem. It’s not something new.
The current political climate may make it more likely that this kind of hate speech and behavior occurs but that is why it’s more important than ever that we call it out. The community has reached out to the school board and administration to ask respectfully to have a place at the table in addressing this complex issue.
Hopefully they will not react out of a defensive posture but understand we simply want to work together to find a solution.
It’s not about the adults…it’s about the kids. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, delivered at the culmination of the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama on March 25, 1965, “How long will it take? However difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth pressed to the earth will rise again. How long? Not long, because the arm of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”
How long must the students of Cook County wait?
Louise Reavis
Hovland
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