Yet New York schools Chancellor, Cathie Black said her comment regarding school overcrowding was just a joke.
Black said: “birth control would solve the problem” and made the remark last week at a task force meeting on school overcrowding.
Upon hearing estimates that lower Manhattan would need an additional 1,000 elementary school seats by 2015, she said “birth control would really help us.”
Cathie Black is already disliked amongst some of her constituents, city activist and parents., being a former executive at Hearst Magazines and USA Today; many felt she was more than unqualified for the job as New York’s school chancellor.
Black was appointed to the position by New York Mayor Bloomberg and Bloomberg came to her defense following a Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast yesterday. He said, “she has apologized and “won’t make the same mistake again.”
Her spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz says, “she takes the problem of school overcrowding seriously and regrets her “offhanded joke” left a different impression.”
Was the School Chancellor ‘out of place with her remark?’ I’d like to hear your thoughts on the matter?

Hell to the “YEs” she was out of place and she was indiscreetly talkin bout minorities.
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and she was indiscreetly talkin bout minorities.
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Of course she was, that’s why bloomberg pimped her azz out at a mlk breakfast, he wanted her to ‘make nice’ wit the blacks.
GTFOH!
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Cathie Black is already disliked amongst some of her constituents, city activist and parents.,
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Yep and now da bitch is on some real thin ice with the public after dis shit!!!!
And what she said did not help.
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Not for nothing… she should have stood her ground. We really do need more birth control.
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“she should have stood her ground.”
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she had NO GROUND to stand on, birth control is a private and individual’s choice! This woman was clearly out of order!
“We really do need more birth control.”
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Just please, please make sure you taking yours cauz the world don’t need another dumb-azz like you boo.
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LMAO!!!! Thank you Queen.
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@Angelhair, Are you serious? This is the position you suggest the Chancellor of New York’s schools to be taking? You think this is appropriate? Really?
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Joke or not, the basic reality is there ARE a lot of people out there who don’t seem to know when to quit having kids.
If you’re having trouble affording 2, you really don’t need 8 Or 14. You’re not the one who ends up footing the bill.
Don’t jump on me, it’s just MO.
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I can pass some e-birth controls for those who need them,
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Even with birth control the spread of sexually transmitted disease will still apply so “birth control” is merely a band-aid.
Parents need to step up and get involved, then people wouldn’t have to get together and continually put their foot in mouth while trying to fix others problems.
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You have a valid point @Angelhair, it doesn’t have to be political, its a matter of common sense. Having lots of kids when you are poor just continues the vicious cycle.
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It was reported recently that 60% of African American babies are now being aborted in NYC.
And suggestions with a billboards in Albany that supports homosexual black males are a wonderful thing and the end result is less African Americans in the nation.
While most African Americans consider the homosexual lifestyle to be an abomination the billboard campaign is an attempt to gain more acceptance in that community for this self destructive lifestyle.
Black people are a means to a white socialist utopian society, whereby black people are forever a minority. This is apparently the view of the new york schools chancellor.
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Rookie mistake. It’s a shame somebody who pretends to be a Chancellor of a major metropolitan school district needs on the job training and mayoral puppeteering, I mean, mentoring.
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needs on the job training and mayoral puppeteering.
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Bloomberg has to do that, Black is his “BITCH” he placed her in that position.
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True indeed @BBallen.,
NYC does not need any rookies. She was an awful choice…but again, Bloomberg put her there as CORP just said.
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Well, of course it was a joke. How many believe she wasn’t joking?
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Hey FLO: Bottom line: it was poor judgement on her part
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I seriously believed she meant it!!!
Fuck dat!
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If she was really joking, then she has and inability to comprehend circumstances and her role as the school’s chancellor people are looking to for answers, not insults.
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she failed thattisall!!!
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Dumb HO!!!
That dark humor might not play so well to a roomful of parents concerned about overcrowding.
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@Flo, whether she was joking or not is irrelevant, the bitch was ‘out of place’ with the remark.
Her reaction was inappropriate period! and this reflects her detachment from ‘parents’ concerns.
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Wow.
Afternoon all.
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she mighta been joking but her words ring true to what she felt.
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sorry y’all but, she was speaking of a solution and not joking. The mayor however is making this into a joke. how? cause he appointed her unqualified azz.
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I agree, she def. meant what she said, she really think PARENTS should stop having kids. when you rich with no attachments you are insensitive on such issues.
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If she is trying to prove her competency and ability to manage, I don’t see it. she failed.
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Her comment was pretty outrageous! and dumb at the same time.
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my impression of Bloomberg which had been sinking anyway over the last year or so, has sunk to an all time low with this appointment.
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Bloomberg and this heifer must have a lot of laughs talking about minorities behind their luxury diggs. and they are laughing all the way to the bank people.
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She look like she’s scared of people. You can tell she has no people skills.
However, she will continue to make outrageous remarks and will eventually be replaced.
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“Was the School Chancellor ‘out of place with her remark?’
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YES!!!! YES!!!! and HELL YES!!!!
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New York schools are in trouble with Ms. Black at the helm. Mayor Bloomberg OUGHT to be ashamed of himself!
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“China has one child per couple”…in China they promote marriage and responsibility.
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NYC’s Mayor Bloommberg is a rich racist who cares nothing about middle or lower class income pepole. Why would he have put anyone but another racist to head NYC schools? Bloomberg is a modern day Hitler. Bloomberg and Black’s parents should have use birth control so they would have never been born. The world would be a better place without them both!!!
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This woman is UNQUALIFIED and really don’t know WTF she talkin bout. Either way, it still does not solve the problem.
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The nerve of this bitch. Her views represent the feelings of her boss and the other MFs that control new york.
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Children are here by God’s plan, purpose and design!
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@Rezzie,
Females should be able to have sex without getting pregnant. If not, they should really STOP FUCKING!
God isn’t in this plan Boo, it’s called a lack of self control on both the male and the female part’s. So please leave God out of this! Please
And thank you.
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This woman is referring to all those welfare moms who poppin’ out babies quicker than orval can pop popcorn in a microwave.
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Thanks Trace, for puttin a face to STUPID.??
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The lady is telling the truth – too many children born out of wedlock to people who cannot support them and rely on the public hospitals to birth them, the public schools to educate them, the public food stamps to feed them, Medicaid to care for them, and, ultimately, the public correction system to house them. I work as a volunteer with children in Atlanta and the situation is mind boggling – and a real burden for this country.
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Good Point Jada!
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Her comment wasn’t funny just like it damn sure wasn’t a joke. she was def. out of order
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Its obvious she is in her current position not because of what she knows but because of whos pee pee shes sucking…Im just saying
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I’m LMAO @ “whose pee pee shes sucking”
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