The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Hundreds packed a South Side church Sunday to hear Minister Louis Farrakhan address what he called a nationwide educational system that is in decline.
The speech, titled "Educational Challenge: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century," culminated a three-day conference in which educators, community activists and religious leaders from across the country met here to discuss solutions to what they called a plighted education system.
Farrakhan, joined onstage by the Rev. Michael Pfleger, attributed the qualms of America's education system to the country's history of elitism, minority children's disassociation with curriculums and the absence of religion in classrooms.
and this gem:
Farrakhan condemned America for implementing an "extreme separation of church and state" in taking God out of schools, saying that a new educational paradigm is one rooted in faith.
No word from the Obama campaign on this one.Also,no word from the Catholic Church on why Father Pfleger is hanging out with Farrakhan.
