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STORY: Glendale Catholic school shutting its doors this year due to
plunge in enrollment
SUMMARY: Citing anemic enrollment and resulting fi nancial losses,
Glendale’s St. Pancras School — a neighborhood fi xture for nearly 110
years — is closing its doors forever this June.
REACH: 12,276 people (as of 1/15/18)
This president doesn’t refl ect Queens
At this point, nobody should be shocked by the kind of damaging words
that come out of the president’s mouth, or through his Twitter account.
And yet, when he reportedly described nations across the globe as “s**thole
countries” during a Cabinet meeting last week, the remark stuck another
knife into the heart of every decent American already sickened of his caustic,
destructive and dehumanizing rhetoric.
“I’m not a racist,” he said on Sunday in responding to the furor. Sure, Mr.
President.
Every Queens resident should be mortifi ed and ashamed. Th is borough, a
mosaic of diversity unlike any other county in the world, is certainly not a
refl ection of this president — and this president is certainly not a refl ection
of this borough.
We’re reminded once again of the late poet Maya Angelou’s wise words
about fi rst impressions: “When someone shows you who they are, believe
them the fi rst time.”
Th is president showed himself as he is during that infamous press conference
in the building bearing his name back in 2015, in which he branded an
entire nation as criminals and rapists. Th at should have been the end of his
campaign, but it wasn’t. What’s worse, others rationalized his nonsense on
the faint hope that, if he became president, he’d undoubtedly change.
Th e vast majority of Americans rejected him, but it wasn’t enough to prevent
him from squeaking by in the Electoral College vote.
Now, a year into his presidency, and it’s quite obvious to any rational person
that there is no “presidential Trump.” Th ere is only this bombastic, hatefi
lled person who seeks to divide everyone by race and class; who lets stereotypes
defi ne his view of the nation and world; and who can’t be trusted to do
what is right and just in order to “make America great again.” (Truth be told,
America has been great since long before he showed up.)
Somehow, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul sought to blame the president’s
Queens upbringing for his own intolerance. On the Jan. 14 “Meet Th e Press”
episode, Paul claimed that the president’s remarks were somehow misinterpreted,
and were really an example of the president’s “Queens saltiness” coming
out rather than full-blown racism.
It shouldn’t shock anyone that this enabling yes-man pretending to be a
senator — too weak to stand up to the president on something so obviously
wrong — twists himself every which way to excuse this president’s behavior.
We may not be Kentucky residents, but we believe our readers should
let Senator Paul know that Queens is particularly “salty” when it comes to
weak, complicit politicians who refuse to condemn hateful remarks for what
they are. Write a letter to his offi ce at 167 Russell Senate Offi ce Building,
Washington, D.C., 20510, or call the offi ce at 202-224-4343.