Headed for some racial tensions?

I don't want to be anywhere near this story about the African American Curie high school principal, Jerryelyn Jones who was basically labeled as an education rock star and then got canned in favor of a Latino candidate which more closely represents the student body.

What we should be talking about: Whether or not it's really appropriate that school administrators be expected to reflect the racial make up of the students. I firmly believe that there's some merit to both sides of that argument.

Honestly, I think we can all agree that Chicago is a relatively peaceful place in terms of public interracial drama. We can all agree that while there certainly are problems which are contributed to by all sides. They're kept quiet though. They're kept out of the public eye. That's what prevents the tension from boiling over into something ugly.

So we've got the black community that's already a little bit cheesed about the Mexican community at times pushing African American's out of neighborhoods, contributing to the "head south" problem that I was talking about the other day. You've got an already tense gang issue in certain areas - between Latino gangs and black gangs. Now, you have a front page news item where, regardless of outcome, one side or the other is about to get a serious pie in the face.

Make matters worse: any time you mention that dreaded word that begins in an L, ends in an O, and has ATIN in the middle when the Mexican population is asserting some civic fire power, the wingers - desperate to substantiate their fantasy land of our country being invaded by people looking for a job - immediately, and like moths to a lamp, turn up to make a stink.

See here, here, most hilariously here, and here.

So as if there isn't enough potential tension between 2 powerful minority groups, add in a third group of white civil activists who seem to appear to banner wave against one of those minority groups via their own bastardized chapter of the Minutemen. Anybody else seeing how this could add some fuel to some existing fires?