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Zorn may think I’m contemptible. But he really hates CTU Prez Karen Lewis. I call that good company. | Fred Klonsky

Zorn may think I’m contemptible. But he really hates CTU Prez Karen Lewis. I call that good company. | Fred Klonsky:


Zorn may think I’m contemptible. But he really hates CTU Prez Karen Lewis. I call that good company.

Eric Zorn took a few minutes out of his busy schedule chasing down leads to send me an email calling me contemptible for objecting to his ugly discourse on race and school closings.
But just to remind readers where Zorn is coming from, here’s a Trib column of his from November of 2011.
Karen Lewis should step down as president of the Chicago Teachers Union.
Her latest gaffe — delivering several ill-chosen remarks during a speech in Seattle last month, then responding this week to the controversy over those remarks with grudging defiance — isn’t resignation-worthy on its own.
True, in her address she mocked a sibilance in the voice of U.S. Education Secretary Arne