The lecture began with a video about the “Mistreatment of Native Americans” that prompted the student to record the lesson and ended with the teacher’s lecture about racism. 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 I 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.
Norman Public Schools Superintendent Joe Siano offered a statement to the news site that blamed the teacher, but did not offer any details on what, if any, disciplinary action the teacher would face. “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,” the statement read.
When you start telling someone something over and over again that’s an opinion, and they start taking it as fact, the student said. So, I wanted him to apologize and make it obvious and apparent to everyone that was his opinion, and should not be brain washing the young to a teachers perspective. A teacher should be neutral and leave the questions to the student to answer, without bias. What do you think?