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Sunday, 22 September 2013
Decide not to hold your prom in Newark? Yeah, that's racism
The students at Caldwell's James Caldwell High School decided not to hold their prom at The Newark Club this year. Aside from the high cost, one of the reasons cited is the recent rash of violent crime.
The prom committee of the regional school in West Caldwell looked at the Metropolitan Room at the Newark Club as one of nine venues. The Newark Club was eliminated from the list because the facility was too pricey and the city may be unsafe because of a recent rash of violent crimes, according to Superintendent James Heinegg.
So naturally, the denizens of Newark see racism.
The decision was strongly criticized by Barbara Yeninas, a marketing consultant from the Newark Club. She said a student from the school's prom committee — a group of five seniors and a class adviser — wrote to her, saying they were told, "You can't go to Newark, it's not safe."
In response, Yeninas sent an e-mail to the Caldwell-West Caldwell school board and superintendent.
"Your quoted excuse that Newark is 'a bad place' and your so-called fear that your students would be unsafe is exactly the attitude that promotes discrimination, hate and divisiveness among our young people and continues that pattern without end," Yeninas wrote.
When you can't defend your city's crime record, cry racism. But if there are ten murders in ten days, totalling 63 this year, along with the usual plethora of muggings, car-jackings, assaults, and rapes, well maybe those fears aren't exactly unfounded. Facts don't discriminate. Statistics don't hate. And it's not divisive to decide you're safer where criminals don't congregate.
Are there decent people in Newark? Sure. Are those decent people "winning" the battle against crime? Nope. Newark may not be as dangerous as Camden or Detroit, but it's no Mayberry, RFD either.
Perhaps Newark could counterbalance the negative perceptions by charging
less than their suburban competitors? At $85 bucks a head The Newark Club
is $25 more expensive than the venue ultimately chosen by JCHS. That sounds
like the kids would be getting robbed even before they set foot inside Cory
Booker's Urban Paradise.
Posted at 16:07 by Chris Wysocki
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