Three elementary school teachers in Los Angeles decided a felon, a drag queen, and a confused repeat offender belonged with Harriet Tubman and President Obama in a parade of black history icons. Community leaders are dumbfounded by the act and are accusing the teachers, who are white, of blatant racism, the Los Angeles Times reports.
They educators encouraging their students, mostly Latino, to carry large pictures of O.J. Simpson, RuPaul and Dennis Rodman at their school parade. “I just can’t fathom what these teachers were thinking of except to make a mockery of African American history,” said the president of the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP. The three controversial figures were not on the list of prominent African Americans approved for study, according to a superintendent.
Black leaders are going medieval and are calling for the wayward teachers’ heads.
Imagine for a moment gleeful and more than likely oblivious Latino students parading through the streets proudly displaying O.J. Simpson pics … laughable! Post racial America? Sure it is. –gerald radford
