Community leaders called on students from poorer parts of Chicago to protest inequalities in school funding by skipping the first day of classes.
State Sen. James Meeks wants students to spend Sept. 2 trying to enroll in a suburban school district that spends much more per student than Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third-largest school district. "Today we are back to two-tiered schools — white and affluent on one side, and black, brown and poor on the other," said Meeks, who also is a minister on the city's South Side.
Meeks expects several thousand black Chicago students to travel in a caravan of buses to New Trier Township High School in the white, North Shore suburb of Winnetka, where they will attempt to enroll.
State statistics indicate that the New Trier district spends around $17,000 annually on each of its students compared to the roughly $10,000 a year spent for each student in Chicago public schools.
"We, as a civilized people, can't do it this way," Meeks said. "We're doing irreparable harm to hundreds of thousands of kids."
Officials at New Trier Township High School District 203 said it wasn't yet clear how they'll deal with so many Chicago students showing up at one time to attempt to enroll at the high school.
"We have sympathy for the issue of school funding. ... But I think (Meeks) is harming his cause by doing this," said the district's superintendent, Linda Yonke.
Meeks said the protesters would seek to enroll based on state rules allowing students to transfer to another district if their safety is at risk. The inferior education they receive in Chicago, he said, "was not good for the safety of their futures."
Yonke said she would have to consult lawyers to see if the district might be obliged to enroll any of the Chicago students.
Overhauling how public schools are funded in Illinois has been hotly debated for years — but to little avail. Critics want the state to move away from a system where money for local schools derives largely from local property taxes, saying the status quo results in vastly better funding of schools in property-rich neighborhoods.
The Center for Perpetual Diversity advises the white schools to cut funding to an equal amount or the Chicago schools should increase there funding. Each jurisdiction must decide how much to spend on its students. It is a travesty to for blacks to spend less on their schools and then try to get whites to pick up the difference. White students would be far better off if they spend less money rather than accepting large numbers of hostile racist blacks in their system. Safety will not change, Meeks' plan may distribute the danger more equally but it can not be reduced and may even get worse as the bad students will have more unsuspecting whites to prey on.
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In the United Kingdom each woman now has an average of 1.91 children, the highest since 1973.
The bad news is that this is due to the tendency for foreign-born mothers, particularly from the Indian sub-continent, to have large families. The proportion of births to foreign-born women is 23%, an increase of 1 per cent. On average, foreign women have 2.5 children each, Pakistanis average almost 5, and Bangladeshis 3.9 children per woman. The number of babies born to British mothers is also increasing, but lags far behind immigrants at an average of 1.7 children. This demographic disaster means the British people and their culture are doomed.

The overall fertility rate has now increased for six successive years. Its lowest point came in 2001 when it was 1.63 children per woman. The birth rate peaked at 2.93 children in 1964.
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Barack Obama dismissed Ralph Nader’s claim that Obama is trying to “talk white” and has failed to challenge the power structure to appeal to “white guilt.”The Rocky Mountain News reported that Nader said he was not impressed with Obama and that the senator was playing down poverty issues.
“There’s only one thing different about Barack Obama... He’s half African-American,” Nader said. “Whether that will make any difference, I don’t know. I haven’t heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What’s keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn’t want to appear like Jesse Jackson?”
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The Washington Post has included an insert called Rise Up in last Fridays paper. It is a magazine dedicated to closing the great racial divide. It is the same stuff we have seen before; trying to convince whites that they should do more to expose themselves to other races. Why can't they just leave us alone?
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A high court in South Africa on Wednesday decided that Chinese-South Africans will be reclassified as 'black,' a term that includes black Africans, Indians and others who recieved less benefits under apartheid. As a result of this nonsense, Chinese citizens will be able to benefit from government affirmative action policies aimed at undoing the effects of apartheid.
The Chinese Association of South Africa sued the government, claiming that its members were being discriminated against because they were being treated as whites and thus failed to qualify for business contracts and job promotions reserved for 'victims' of apartheid. The association successfully argued that, since Chinese-South Africans had been treated unequally under apartheid, they should be reclassified in order to redress wrongs of the past. They did not mention that the Chinese benefited almost as much as the whites during the apartheid era. They were able to live in their own communities and now they can not.
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Save Europe.net is pleased to report that our efforts have been fruitful. We worked hard to inform Irish Americans about the dangers of being to closely tied to the EU. We told them to contact their friends and family back in Ireland and on June 12, 2008 Irish voters have rejected the Lisbon Treaty.With results in from 28 of the 43 constituencies, the Lisbon Treaty is rejected by a margin of 53.6% to 46.4%.
This sends a strong message to leaders across Europe and will provide support for other European nations seeking to retain their independence. SaveEurope.net is proud to have helped the cause.
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Senator Obama has now reached the number of delegates needed to secure the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. The Center sent a letter to Senator Clinton to offer advice on what went wrong and what direction to go from here. The letter can be seen on the activities page on this website. Copies were also sent to several newspapers.
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