Semler resigns

Francis Semler has announced that she is resigning from the Parks Board of the City of Kansas City. This is following the announcement from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference that they will boycott KC (following the lead of La Raza) because of the Mayor's apparent insensitivity to racial issues. I applaud the SCLC for their stand on Christian principles, and their solidarity with La Raza. Critics (like Darla J) have said that the SCLC apparently cares more about illegal aliens than it does African Americans. But nothing could be further from the truth. Wasn't it Martin Luther King, Jr. who said that an injustice to one is injustice for all? The same people who want to ride roughshod on the human rights and dignity of immigrants also care nothing about the rights of African Americans. If they can abuse one helpless minority group, it won't be long before they turn to another one.

As for Ms. Semler, she should have stayed on the Parks Board and resigned from the Minutemen instead. That would have sent the right message. No doubt she was encouraged to do this to save the mayor from further embarassment. She said that she was not receiving much support from the mayor. There is a reason for that. Her position on the Minutement is wrong and deserves condemnation. If the mayor wasn't supportive enough, then congratulations to him. Too bad it came so late. And too bad for Ms. Semler. She apparently stood for some good things she wanted to do on the Parks Board. Her position with the Minutemen was not one of of them.