Posted on 03/07/2015 10:30:51 AM PST by rightistight
Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois held a Black Lives Matter assembly last week, but banned anyone who was not African American from attending. Oak Park is just outside of Chicago.
White students who tried to attend were physically barred from entering the auditorium where the meeting was taking place. Parents of these students said that their children were turned away when they tried to enter.
However, Principal Nathaniel Rouse, who organized the event and is black, is not backing down from his decision to exclude other races. Not only that, but by banning whites, he does not feel that he was being exclusive.
First and foremost, this is not meant to give a connotation that we were trying to be exclusive, he said, responding to parents concerns.
The event was pushed for by students who were dismayed by the death of Michael Brown last year, despite the fact that the Justice Department and grand jury proved that Brown assaulted a police office.
I credit them (the students) with giving me the push I needed to follow my heart and do something different for our school, Rouse said.
Rouse felt that, in the end, black students would not have been able to express themselves with judgmental white people attending.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
Have mercy! been ridin in the back of the bus all day...
got my brown paper bag and my take home pay.
Yeah, well I grew up outside the United States. I had heard about segregation but never seen it. I ended up going to an “elite” college in New England (unnamed but of course quite liberal) and started as a sophomore. The dean of students gave me a tour of the campus on the first day, and when we went into the main dining hall, I was shocked to see that all the black students were eating by themselves in a separate room. (Ooh, this is the racial segregation I have heard about, I thought to myself.) I made some comment to the dean that I had never seen anything like that before. She was quick to tell me that it was the not the college’s choice, the Black Students Union had demanded and had gotten the right to their own “black” dining hall. There was also separate housing only for black students, again demanded and controlled by the Black Student Union. This was in the mid-Seventies.
The principal is a racist bigot and should be fired. He serves all of the students, not just the black ones. His lifestyle should immediately become permanently unemployed, without hope of any government benefits, ever.
They should have come anyway.
What about white people who “identify” as black? It would be as unfair to exclude them as it would be to exclude men who identify as women from the ladies restroom.
Black lives matter only when they are shot and killed by white cops or white people.
Spoiled brats, even back then.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.