A teacher at the Norman Public Schools is facing heat from many of the parents after he told their children that to be white is to be racist, period. One of the students in his class used her cellphone to record his racist rantings. Naturally the racist prick has not been identified. We must protect the little fascist’s privacy even if his rantings were public.
The girl who recorded the rant went home and told her parents what had happened and they immediately contacted the school, demanding answers.
In the video, a man “pulls out this globe with a bottle of white out and marks over a country or a piece of country and puts his name on it,” the student said.
“So he was basically comparing what he had done to the globe to what we did to America,” she said.
When her teacher laid out his theories of racism afterwards, the student said she was stunned.
“To be white is to be racist, period,” the teacher said in the recording. “Am I racist? I say yea. I don’t want to be. It’s not like choose to be racist, but do I do things because of the way I was raised?”
The student was naturally offended by her teacher labeling her a racist.
“Half of my family is Hispanic so I just felt like, you know, him calling me a racist just because I’m white … I mean, where’s your proof in that,” the girl said. “I felt like he was encouraging people to kind of pick on people for being white.”
Her father wasn’t impressed, either, and he contacted school officials and the media to alert them about the situation.
“Why is it okay to demonize one race to children that you are supposed to be teaching a curriculum to?” he asked KFOR.
The student said:
“You start telling someone something over and over again that’s an opinion and they start taking it as fact. So I wanted him to apologize and make it obvious and apparent to everyone that was his opinion.”
Even though the school said that it was the teacher that was to blame, they didn’t say anything about punishing him. In fact, they defended him saying:
“Racism is an important topic that we discuss I our schools. While discussing a variety of philosophical perspectives on culture, race and ethics, a teacher was attempting to convey to students in an elective philosophy course a perspective that had been shared at a university lecture he had attended.”
“We regret that the discussion was poorly handled. When the district was notified of this concern it was immediately addressed. We are committed to ensuring inclusiveness in our schools.”