Black Leaders in Fresno Say a White Man Can’t Teach Cultural Studies
Saying that someone can’t teach a particular subject because of their skin color is kind of racist, isn’t it?
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.
WHITES NEED NOT APPLY: Black Leaders In Fresno Oppose White ‘Cultural Studies’ Teacher
Black community leaders in Fresno, Calif., are urging the Fresno Unified School District to re-evaluate the hiring of a white guy to teach three cultural studies courses at a brand-new middle school that will overwhelmingly serve minority students.
Rutherford B. Gaston Middle School — named after the city’s first black principal — will open in a few short weeks. It’s the first middle school in the immediate, poverty-ridden vicinity since 1979.
The protesters are unhappy because the school has chosen to hire Peter Beck, a person with white skin, over other, unidentified candidates, The Fresno Bee reports.
Beck will teach African-American studies, Latino studies and Southeast Asian studies.
On Monday morning, a small band of activists showed up in front of the sparkling new school at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Church Avenue. The local press was also there.
“We’re just saying what the community wants,” said Rev. Karen Crozier, one of the activists. “We didn’t fight for a white male or female teacher to educate our babies.”
Crozier, who appears to be a professor at Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary, also suggested that a white person cannot teach minority children in this instance because of racism.
“We still are at these racial fault lines, and we want someone who will be able to think critically about those racial fault lines and how do we help heal, to restore the problems that have existed,” she explained.
Another black community leader, Paul McCoy of New Light for New Life Church of God, also spoke.
“We’re all faced today with so much dysfunction and violence from young people, and that violence is simply because they don’t know who they are, they don’t know where they come from,” he proclaimed.
WHITES NEED NOT APPLY: Black Leaders In Fresno Oppose White ‘Cultural Studies’ Teacher (The Daily Caller)
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“We didn’t fight for a white male or female teacher to educate our babies.”
Humpf. I thought that school desegregation was one of the biggest issues in the civil rights movement back in the 1960s. Sounds like what they want now is segregated schools. So, sixty years of megabuck spending, massive social change, political opportunism, and relentless indoctrination has brought them almost full circle back to the starting point. Segregation — one of the worst things anyone could demand not so many decades ago.
This demand by blacks for segregation has been building for a long time. You may remember past demands for black students to be granted their own campus societies (black nurses, for one) and separate graduation ceremonies. They had all of that decades ago, and they rejected it — often with violence. What a sad and ungrateful legacy they are creating for themselves.
Who is the racist, now?
Perhaps the question should be “how can a black teacher help minority children learn to suceed in a white dominated society?” Do the parents not want their children to be able to compete with people of other races?