Posted on 03/07/2015 7:44:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
An Illinois high school principal is defending his decision to exclude white students from a “Black Lives Matter” event held at his school.
On February 27th, Oak Park and River Forest High School principal, Nathaniel Rouse, hosted a “Black Lives Matter” event exclusively for black students. The assembly was intended to culminate Black History Month with a discussion on race relations. Approximately 350 black individuals attended the event. When white students attempted to attend the assembly, however, they were denied entry.
Parents who were upset over the school’s decision to exclude non-black students from the event voiced their opinion to the Chicago Tribune. Rouse responded to the concerns of the parents by stating, “First and foremost, this is not meant to give a connotation that we were trying to be exclusive.”
In a statement on the Oak Park and River Forest High School website, the school addressed the controversy: “[S]ome students and parents expressed confusion and concern about the event being for Black students only. Information about the event lacked clarity about this aspect of the conversation, and the high school is committed to improving communications in the future. Further conversations among and across other racial affinity groups shall take place at the high school in the coming months and into next year.”
Rouse defended his decision to keep non-black students from the assembly by referring to the concept of “affinity groups.” According to the school’s statement, “Racial affinity groups are often used in learning communities to help facilitate positive identity exploration and provide people with similar experiences a space in which to pose questions and process topics.”
“According to Principal Rouse, the conversation was an opportunity for students who identify as Black to speak openly, honestly, and productively.”
Rouse told the Chicago Tribune affinity groups are helpful to discussions on race, as he “found it has been far easier for me to talk about my experiences with racism with individuals that look like me.” He added, “I still struggle myself with talking about my experiences with people who don’t look like me.”
Rouse hopes to host similar racial affinity group discussions in the future with different races, saying he believes “the affinity group is the safe way for us to move forward in a safe environment.”
I know a clown in Alabama that was drunk half his life and had affairs with more than one teacher and he got a gig as a principal.
A masters in education means nothing. If someone has tenure, most school systems will pay for their masters degrees. Most teachers eventually get them to make the extra money every year.
So many of the guys got into education because it was easier or they were in high school sports and wanted to be coaches. All of a sudden, they’re qualified to be principal.
You say you hate racism? Nietzsche: “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster . . . for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
The implication being, that those students will not do so in the presence of anyone who does not "identify as black".
“Racial affinity groups are often used in learning communities to help facilitate positive identity exploration and provide people with similar experiences a space in which to pose questions and process topics.”
One of the finest examples of impressively polysyllabic bureaucratese gobbledygook I have seen in a while. Funny, with Selma, all the Rosa Parks stuff going on that segregation is seen as the key to honesty and productivity... when those who saw the negative impacts of integration on all but the most gerrymandered school districts were shouted down as "racist" for pointing that out.
If you want education--real learning, not just warehouses for the worker bees' offspring--remove the distractions of race and gender and teach something solid. As for sexuality, well, people will figure that out.
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Thus is a Federal Civil Rights violation on the 50th anniversary of Selma.
So Blacks are segregating themselves. The Democrats couldn’t have planned it any better.
Reverse Segregation. He can’t do that.
Don’t you just love racial segregation?!!! ....Oh I forgot.. “Black Lies Matter!”
When I was in high school in 1973, we all were called to the gym for an assembly. When we got there we were separated by race, whites on one side of the gym, and Hispanics (Chicanos is what they wanted to be called back then) on the other. Then Cesar Chavez got up and gave us a speech about supporting migrant farm workers and boycotting lettuce. No kidding! We all sat there thinking “What the hell?”
I’m sure the all-black participants at this racist event spent most of their time abhorring black-on-black crime. (S)
Segregation has completed the cycle and has come out the other side to.
“High School Principal Excludes White Students From ‘Black Lives Matter’ Event”
Think that will help their cause?
You lived in Chino, too? LOL
However, it appears blacks taking other blacks’ lives is no big deal.
Suspend his lying @$$ without pay until they hold a white students only event, and then fire him.
State sponsored Communist brainwashing at its finest. I’m glad it didnt take.
Is the event paid for with private funds, or with tax revenue. Is it taking place on private property?
Rouse defended his decision to keep non-black students from the assembly by referring to the concept of “affinity groups.” According to the school’s statement, “Racial affinity groups are often used in learning communities to help facilitate positive identity exploration and provide people with similar experiences a space in which to pose questions and process topics.”
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That sounds like something David Duke would like.
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