Texas Official Admits Beloved Black Principal Was Fired for Being Against Racism

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
A member of a school board in Texas has said the quiet part out loud, admitting that a beloved Black high school principal who shared his stance on racism in the wake of George Floyd’s death was pushed out of the job for being a “total activist.”

Dr. James Whitfield, who became Colleyville High School’s first Black principal in 2020, wrote a letter to the school community about police brutality after Floyd’s murder, which led to him being placed on administrative leave in July 2020.

“He is encouraging the disruption and destruction of our district,” former school board candidate Stetson Clark said during a board meeting at the time, the Texas Tribune reported.

In September 2021, the school district voted unanimously to not renew Whitfield’s contract, causing uproar among many parents, students and teachers.

His critics claimed the letter he wrote to the community about “education [being] the key to stomping out ignorance, hate, and systemic racism,” was equivalent to implementing Critical Race Theory in the school.


“They have to be stopped now,” she added. “We cannot have teachers such as these in our schools because they’re just poison, and they’re taking our schools down.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...AAZAkmv?cvid=2df6e4f7e45b411eac140dc0e8a80c6a
 
DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO LIE? YOU SHOULD.


HE WAS FIRED FOR PROMOTING CRT, WHICH IS BLATANTLY RACIST, IN THE SCHOOL. LIAR.
 
As Colleyville’s first Black principal, he felt like he should say more. Emboldened by friends, he decided to make a teachable moment out of this summer of unrest.


“I wanted to give people a message of hope and encouragement,” he says, still sounding stunned over the phone.

The email he wrote declared systemic racism to be “alive and well” and encouraged the community to band together. Education, he told them, is “a necessary conduit to get liberty and justice for all”.


It’s our job as educators to present the truth and present you with opportunities to investigate for yourself – to think critically – and I know critical is a very touchy word
James Whitfield

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...al-caught-in-a-critical-race-theory-firestorm
 
Back
Top