A North Texas faculty board member printed {that a} letter encouraging anti-racism ended in a Black fundamental being “fired” from a most commonly white highschool.
Tammy Nakamura, a newly elected member of the Grapevine-Colleyville faculty board, informed a Republican Nationwide Committee-sponsored faculty board panel about how former Colleyville Heritage Top Faculty fundamental James Whitfield’s position as an “activist” used to be the “straw that broke the camel’s again,” The Day-to-day Beast reported.
Whitfield wrote a letter to his faculty within the early morning hours of June 3, 2020, within the wake of protests associated with George Floyd’s demise.
Within the letter, he mentioned schooling used to be the “key” to finishing lack of awareness, hate and systemic racism, in keeping with The Texas Tribune.
“It’s a important conduit to get ‘liberty and justice for all,’” he wrote.
Over a 12 months after his remarks, Stetson Clark, a former faculty board candidate, referred to the letter at a faculty board assembly and accused Whitfield of training “essential race concept.”
“He’s encouraging the disruption and destruction of our district,” Clark mentioned. The gang cheered as he completed his remarks.
Whitfield, the primary Black fundamental at a most commonly white highschool, used to be put on paid administrative go away in August 2021. He agreed to renounce as fundamental, however will stay on paid administrative go away till August 2023, The Texas Tribune reported.
A part of the district’s agreement with Whitfield contains an settlement to unravel “disputes and no longer make any further public statements,” the Fortress Price Superstar-Telegram reported.
Nakamura mentioned Whitfield used to be a “general activist” and referred to the letter he wrote in keeping with Floyd’s demise.
“There may be absolute evidence [of] what he used to be seeking to do,” Nakamura mentioned. “They should be stopped now, we can’t have academics equivalent to those in our faculties as a result of they’re simply poison, they usually’re taking our faculties down.”
Nakamura additionally claimed Whitfield introduced nationwide media publicity to the Grapevine-Colleyville faculty district as a result of he used to be married to a white girl.
You’ll watch her remarks, shared within the Colleyville Voters for Responsibility Fb crew, right here.
Nakamura and different Grapevine-Colleyville faculty board contributors didn’t right away reply to a HuffPost request for additional remark.
The board has a gathering scheduled for Monday with an government consultation “to planned the appointment, employment, analysis, reassignment, tasks, self-discipline or dismissal of a public officer or worker or to listen to lawsuits or fees towards a public officer or worker,” in keeping with the Fortress Price Superstar-Telegram.