Cathie Black, in the truest and worst sense of the word, is a chancellor
Sunday, January 16th 2011, 4:00 AM
Could we just have some self-control for awhile?
It would really help us if Schools Chancellor Cathie Black would abstain from making insensitive jokes.
She did get some titters when she jested, "Could we just have some birth control for a while? It would really help us."
But the parents at that downtown Manhattan meeting were overwhelmingly white and well-off, which may have been why she felt she could make the joke in the first place.
She knows that those folks are not going to think she is really telling them to stop breeding.
The rich white lady from Manhattan might have received a very different reaction had she attempted that humor in a poor neighborhood where hope lives in the children and the realization of that hope resides in education.
The poor have historically been told by people of Black's station to stop breeding and
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