President Barack Obama is sending Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Chicago next week to discuss the recent beating death of a 16-year-old honors student.
I would like to add that this is larger than Chicago Public Schools and that the day after Derrion Albert was brutally murdered, two cousins - one attending the University of Illinois @ Urbana and the other attending DeVry were murdered in Chicago too.
They were Percy Day, 17 years of age and Tyrone Williams, 19 years of age.
I also would like to recommend to Chicago officials that some energy should go to address the protection of our children and Chicago taxpayers. I understand the hopes, energy and resources being given to inviting international athletes and tourists to this city for the 2016 Olympic Games, but I was taught as a child growing up to clean my house before I invited company.
Not much is really being discussed from our leaders in Washington, DC on actual 'health care.' It appears as though if we actually limited input to facts, there are some in congress that would have to leave the 'grown folks' table. The underground southerners who dislike a black man speaking to their children or even addressing them in congress are creating a sidebar that the majority of Americans need to shut down ... that our President needs to shut down. I fear that we are appearing weak because we buckle, we bend and we accommodate pure nonsense based on rhetoric and not facts.
I would like to see my President stand strong, not bend, not accommodate and not acknowledge the nonsense. A health care plan without a public option is nonsense and a waste of taxpayer time and money. We need a national call of all those who have NO HEALTH INSURANCE AT ALL to meet at the front door of the White House. These are the individuals that need our attention. These are the individuals who deserve to hear from the President and the rest of America needs to know how many there are.
No more attention to the hecklers or racists who have a campaign to discredit our President. The next time President Barack Obama wishes to speak to children in the United States about the importance of education, he should do so. Those unwilling to allow their children to listen to a President of the United States should consider not accepting ANY Federal funding from the U.S. Department of Education. The next time President Barack Obama wishes to speak to Congress about anything he should do so. Those who are ignorant of decorum and Roberts Rules of Order should be dismissed - not tolerated. Let them explain that to their constituencies who need health care and due to irresponsibility, no longer have a seat at the table.
The allowances for the sick-minded, twisted AND - dare I say - unpatriotic needs to stop.
I love my President, I will do whatever I can to help him succeed and win another term!
