Former professor Carol Swain reacts to the comments on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’
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Rachel as parents fight to get
their kids back in the
classroom, the vice president of
one of Californias school
boards just compared opening
schools prematurely to slavery.
That seems like a very white
supremacist ideology to force
people to comply with. You know
conform
laughter
without thinking about all of
their intersecting factors and
barriers that exist for all
families.
Its privilege,
I dont want to be a part of
forcing anybody to do anything.
They dont want to do
thats what slavery is
im not going to be a part of
it.
Rachel here to react is
Dr Carol Swain
Dr Swain. Welcome
when I saw this. My first
reaction was that by her
definition of slavery, forcing
anybody to do anything they
dont want to do thats
slavery, I guess, as a mom, I
engage in slavery all day long.
I cant imagine how frustrated
parents must be to hear this
kind of language from a board
member at the school board about
getting their kids back into the
classroom.
Well, it is so absurd
and the individual who made that
statement. She is an elected
official and shes, clearly
parroting the views of the
teachers union, rather than
paying attention to the wishes
of the parents,
and if you look at the data, the
children who are most hurt by
being out of school to are
blacks, Latinos and poor, whites,
Rachel, yeah, absolutely
and by the way, also those with
special needs.
Yes,
Rachel have been really
thrown off for the whole year,
just regressing,
so parents have complained and
the school board the District
superintendent put out this
statement.
He said she behaved in manner.
The board does not condone, nor
does her behavior represent our
values.
Please note that the school
board trustees are not district
employees, they are elected
officials.
The school district does not
have the authority to release
duly elected trustees if their
positions,
so in other words she will stay
in that position. Despite making
those statements,
I want to move to another topic
with you that the that I
think you have so much knowledge
on and that is some teachers are
canceling Shakespeare because of
racism and homophobia and
classism.
Dr Seuss reportedly has been
canceled from a Virginia school
system because of its racial
undertones.
What do you make of you know
canceling Dr Seuss, but also
you know, Shakespeare
well for Shakespeare. There
has been a battle against
western civilization, going back
many decades to nineteen. Eighty eight Jesse
Jackson led a protest at
Stanford University.
They protested western
civilization for being too your
yo centric and euro centric
and white male dominated
weve, seen the fruits of that,
and you can trace the attacks to
the critical race theory and
its intent to destroy all things
that are traditional and its
focus on white people in
particular,
and so the White culture, its
being canceled by the elites,
and, unfortunately, the
Democratic Party has pretty much
endorsed this whole agenda,
its so destructive not just to
minority children, but also to
any child,
and it itself is racism.
Everything about it is racist
and it means that poor children
would get theyll get a worse
education, because theyre not
being exposed to the basic
skills that they need to be
successful.
Rachel yeah
were doing a disservice to our
childrens education. When we to
these kinds of things
really quickly the Louden
County, Virginia public schools
did the not respond to Fox news
request for comment. If on this
story,
I want to thank you again,
Dr Swain, for joining us. This.
Transcript generated on 2021-03-08.