Oak Park, Ill.--There seems to be no end to the nonsense coming out of Chicago this election cycle. While the presumptive Democrat candidate is on vacation in Hawaii, another Chicago minister close to Senator Obama has a plan to improve public education in the city.

        State Senator Reverend James Meeks wants students to boycott school the first day of class and then get on busses and try to enroll in mostly white suburban schools.  According to Rev. Meeks, this protest will make a statement about so called funding inequalities in the Chicago area. 

        This protest will also disrupt funding for Chicago's public schools.  In Illinois, most funds for public education are disbursed based on a formula that takes into consideration first day attendance.

        Rev. Meeks, the pastor of the Salem Baptist Church, is fond of using the N word in his sermons. In one of these sermons he said: "Open up the white school.  We want to get in the white school.  We want to go where the books are or computers are." 

        The Southtown newspaper reports that, "Striking at the very heart of the political power structure in Illinois, state Sen. James Meeks (D-Chicago) on Thursday threatened to put protesting public schoolchildren in the lobbies of every business in downtown Chicago, including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  'If we've got a problem, everybody's got a problem,' Meeks told more than a thousand cheering supporters at a rally to reform public school funding in this state."

        You may have never heard of this plan because you don't live in Chicago.  The national media won't cover it because they are in the tank for Senator Obama and another radical minister who is friends with the senator is not what the presumptive candidate needs right now.

        Most visitors to Chicago never visit a public school.  They enjoy the lake front, Michigan Avenue, or a Cubs game.  They hardly ever venture to the south or west sides, except maybe to see the Bulls play. 

        Few of these visitors discover that the largest employer in Chicago is the federal government.  That is followed by the CPS, or the Chicago Public Schools.

        That the CPS needs more money is debatable. What is not debatable, is that what the CPS does, it does very well.  Of course, what it does is not educate.  What it does is give people jobs.  All sorts of jobs: unqualified teachers, high paid and useless administrators, even janitors.

        Jobs are important in the socialist city state of Chicago because jobs mean votes.  This is how the regime stays in power in this ''Bulgaria by the lake.''   Jobs, however, are not the whole story.  Besides jobs there also has to be racial segregation.

        Almost a half century after Brown v. the Board of Education, Chicago's public schools are still segregated.  They are mostly black, now, instead of mostly white.  This segregation is important to keep politicians in power and black voters in the slavery of victimhood.  Chicago's ruling class benefits from having black voters remain on the plantation and ignorant.

        More money will not solve the problems at the CPS.  Ever since the late 1960s we know that the biggest influence contributing to success in education is home environment.  The Coleman study documented this beyond a doubt.

        Furthermore, The New York Times reports: "James S. Coleman, the educational sociologist, concludes in a new federally financed study that private high schools provide a better education than public high schools." 

        "These findings are expected to strengthen the support of tuition tax credits for parents whose children attend parochial or other private schools."

        In her book, "What Money Can't Buy," University of Chicago sociologist Susan E. Mayer claims: "Once children's basic material needs are met, characteristics of their parents become more important to how they turn out than anything additional money can buy." 

        When welfare policies discourage strong families, expect a dysfunctional subculture and little success in education.  Clearly, Rev. Meeks misses the point here. 

        He also misses the point that when I and others before him graduated from Harper High School in Chicago, it was the best high school in the city.  Since Rev. Meeks graduated from Harper it has become the worst high school in the city. 

        How did this happen?  Rev. Meeks must be forced to explain that transition from best to worst. Doing so will show how the very political machine that got him to power also causes the problems he wants to solve: The culture and politics of victimhood creates victims.

        In a perverse way, the plan by Reverend Meeks to boycott public schools on the first day may actually have the unintended consequence of working for change.  It may contribute to the collapse of a system that is beyond repair. 

        Besides being a shakedown for more money, money the state does not have, even with Chicago collecting the highest sales tax of any city in the nation--10.5 percent--the money, just like in the past, will go for more jobs and votes, not better education.

        It may have been possible to solve Chicago's education problems 25 years ago before the city became segregated and dominated by minorities and a single political party.  Today, the city has reached a point of no return. 

        The protest by Rev. Meeks is a sign that a collapse is eminent.  The murder rate in the city is up 18 percent since last year, further testimony that the problems in Chicago are not just problems with public education.

        You may not live or vote in Chicago, but Senator Obama's political "war room" is located there.  If Democrats win in November, what the senator learned in Chicago will travel with him and his friends to Washington, D.C. 

        Expect, then, higher taxes, bigger government, more failed public policies, segregation, and social unrest.  That's the lesson from Chicago for today, kids!