Posted on 07/29/2014 8:53:22 AM PDT by mandaladon
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.
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“they don’t know who they are, they don’t know where they come from,” he proclaimed..............So whose fault is that?”
The answer: kicking God out of school.
The only thing that surprises me about this story is that this fool Beck thought that he could have a career teaching black and Latino studies. It doesn’t matter how good he is or how dedicated he is to the “cause,” he has white skin. That is what matters.
In my wodld absolutely zero student financial aid can be used for anything thats has the word or is derived from the worx that has studies in it. First all “studies” are derisive and secondly you will only become at best a manager at a star bucks.
I should have proof read that.
Reminds of me of the part in the Samuel Jackson "Shaft" movie where he's interrogating a rich suspect who says to him, "Do you know who my father is?" Shaft retorts, "No. Do you?"
These “black leaders” decry racism and past segregation as what is to blame for their problems, while exercising racism and demanding segregation.
Just sayin what the community wants.
So was George Wallace.
Glad I grew up in an age without cultural studies in elementary school.
Maybe they should start teaching history again in public schools.
Why don’t immigrants have take courses to learn OUR culture instead?
Why don’t we have white community leaders?
Then you had better not accept any money from white taxpayers - it's tainted. :)
I say this as a punchline, because it’s the kneejerk reaction of the left:
“all the other community leaders are the white community leaders”.
Of course. There is open and blatant discrimination against Whites. It’s illegal and unconstitutional.
Illegal and unconstitutional is the norm under Obama’s regime.
My sense from the article is that a latino or southeast asian would be unacceptable too. The position has to go to an african american.
Because the concept of an "American" culture is now out of vogue with those that think they know better. It's more important to preserve the culture you fled.
I know. But if they want to give segregation another try, I say LET 'EM.
What would happen if they wanted a white teacher but that teacher declined for the same reason?
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