Posted on 06/28/2016 6:04:46 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
The nation’s oldest public school – and the alma mater of five signers of the Declaration of Independence – is embroiled in a racial controversy that may be its biggest test in nearly 400 years.
Boston Latin School, founded in 1635 and still one of America’s most prestigious high schools, has undergone an administrative shakeup, faces growing demands from community leaders and is the subject of a federal investigation. The controversy arose after two black students claimed on YouTube that racism courses through hallways and classrooms, and the administration turns a blind eye.
“The fact that our administration failed to publicly denounce this behavior, or even say something to the students making the comments that was effective, has created an unsafe and racially hostile learning environment for students of color at B.L.S.,” recent graduates Meggie Noel and Kylie Webster-Cazeau, members of a group called “Black Leaders Aspiring for Change and Knowledge,” said on the video.
The video sparked investigations by the school district and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, as well as an ever-louder chorus of demands for resignations and reforms from civil rights groups. Faculty members have blamed Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for refusing to defend the administration.
Last week, Headmaster Lynne Mooney Teta and Assistant Headmaster Michael Flynn, who worked at the school for more than half a century, resigned.
John Hancock, (l.), and future president John Adams, (r.), both attended Boston Latin.
Their ousters were seen in some quarters as a cowardly sacrifice to an angry mob and in others as a necessary first step toward reclaiming the vaunted reputation of a school that has long purported to be a color-blind “escalator of upward mobility” for Boston’s poor and middle-class kids...
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“The controversy arose after two black students claimed on YouTube that racism courses through hallways and classrooms, and the administration turns a blind eye.”
Inability to compete with ALL non-black groups = racism.
No wonder that managers have traded up for Hispanics in many jobs; without the English advantage most see no point in employing blacks.
great comment from the thread below the article:
A young kid asks his mother, “Mama, what is Socialism and what is Racism?”
“Well, child . . . Socialism is when SOME folks work harder every day so we can get all our stuff free like: Obamacare, cell phones for each family member, rent subsidy, food stamps, EBT, WIC, school lunch, utility subsidy, and on and on . . . you know. That’s Socialism”
“But mama, don’t the white people get mad about that?”
“Sure they do honey ……….... that’s called Racism.”
crappola.
Racism in Bahston? Impossible! It's a republican dirty trick, of course.
Having lived in liberal northeast cities and now in the deep south I found that the most racist area, by far, was Boston.
Without common traditions and habits, diverse peoples require a strongman at the top to keep them from slicing each other’s throats.
The Left understands very well what it is doing. Keep the negroes, latinos, homos . . . on edge and separate, and eventual dissolution of the American republic is a certainty.
Liberal on liberal crime. I’m good with it.
I wish them all the worst.
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