The View From Kalamazoo

Remember when I posted briefly on the Kalamazoo Promise, an amazing gift to the parents and children here? Well, here is the best example of snobbish classicism and racism I’ve seen yet: “I am angered at The Kalamazoo Promise,” wrote Kimberly Ralicki, of Portage. “Why use financial gain to boost a poor school district when you could benefit students who really care in other school districts in Kalamazoo County?”

There are so very many things I can say about this jealous, insensitive, and senseless and her incredibly poor-sport attitude, not to mention my hopes that her children are not the racist, classist bigots she clearly is…
But I think I should end that rant right here.

It must be so very, very hard to continue to feel special and superior when those unwanteds to the north (who include university faculty, CEOs, and other moneyed [don’t forget old money, sweetheart. old money] and educated professions as well as those on assistance and the, apparently, stupid and uncaring working/middle class) are getting attention and tremendous investment in their childrens’ futures (and in the city itself ) by donors. Poor Kimberly. Other people in Portage, and in other surrounding communities, can manage to be happy for those children affected by the Promise even if their own are not…I guess it illustrates the difference between low-class and class-less.