Madera County Board of Education President resigns amid social media backlash.

CBS 47 ^ | June 25, 2020 | Kathryn York

[L.A.Justice]

MADERA COUNTY, California (KSEE/KGPE) — The president of the Madera County Board of Education has resigned amid a social media backlash.

Dr. Cecilia A. Massetti, Madera County Superintendent of Schools, made the announcement Thursday.

Massetti received the following statement from Sara Wilkins:

After 47 years of service to the children of my community, I have decided to retire and resign my position on the Madera County Board of Education.

Sara Wilkins

More than a thousand people signed a petition calling for Wilkins to step down after a post on her private Facebook page that some called racist.

Wilkins posted, “I am proud to be white. I bet no one passes this on because they are scared of be called a racist.” The message was written over a Confederate flag.

[L.A.Justice]

“It’s not acceptable to be racist, especially in times like this, especially in Madera where there are a lot of Hispanics and people of color who live here,” said Madera South High School senior Jocelyn Avilanava, who started the petition.

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Racist? OK...Ms. Jocelyn...Is it OK if you said that you are proud to be a Mexican? Is that any different from some white person saying that she is proud to be white?

Only non-whites are allowed to say that they are proud of their heritage? Has anyone heard a good defense for that kind of reasoning?

Ms. Wilkins stated that she is proud to be white...She did not use the term "white power"...

Confederate flag background...I am not sure what that was all about...Maybe Ms. Wilkins grew up in South?

[joma89]

The racists are the thousand people who signed the petition.

JoMa

[IncPen]

Racist is an opinion, not a provable fact...

[snarkytart]

a little more than a thousand people who can sit on their ass and sign something got removed.

These places and corporations are fake af, they know that one thousand people online is NOTHING and as a matter of fact Social Media little harpies with their pitchforks do not represent the majority of people. Why do they all online petitions and TWITTER users dictate who gets fired?

[coaster123]

Birds of a feather flock together.

[Vendome]

I’m proud to be an American and I use to be Black

Why am I defined by my race?

[the OlLine Rebel]

What’s shameful is the self-righteous presumptuous tyrants getting their way...again.

47 years...oh yes, hpjust another old white wench they’re on waiting to die.

[Drew68]

Wilkins posted, “I am proud to be white. I bet no one passes this on because they are scared of be called a racist.” The message was written over a Confederate flag.

How could she not have expected a different reaction than the one she received?

Agree or disagree, she had to have known that posting something like this was going to generate a Cat 1 sh**storm.

[ReaganGeneration2]

We are defined by our skin color because the internet told everyone to.
/s

We want to define everyone, that’s natural. But skin color is the easiest way to do that - so that’s what the uneducated and lazy (KKK, Nazis, Leftists, Sheeple corporate PR<, etc.) do.

[ronnie raygun]

Tolerance can go only so far. How many of us have reached then end and enough is enough

[Long Jon No Silver]

Didn’t expect to see the U.S turn into a leftist dictatorship so easily. Very disheartening

[EEGator]

In vino veritas?

[Bratch]

Age quod agis.

[OpusatFR]

Time to start suing people.

[eyeamok]

Divide and Conquer!

[Vaduz]

Dr. Cecilia A. Massetti had a spin she would have posted no thanks I’m staying see your mommy.

[EEGator]

Credat Judaeus Apella, non ego.

[Bratch]

Eventus stultorum magister

[EEGator]

In pace requiescat.

[Bratch]

Well! I didn’t think ya had it in you!