The Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce, Huntsville City Schools personnel, the Mayor, the Board of Education, and the Huntsville Council of PTA's went on a full scale media enabled public relations offensive yesterday, or as I like to call it, Standing in the School House Door Huntsville City Schools style with a few Negro's thrown in for....... color. Nod, nod, wink, wink, we see you.
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The event comes after the district's formal response to the U.S. Department of Justice concerning the school rezoning plan and public criticisms from Madison County Commissioner Bob Harrison, Councilman Richard Showers and a group of northwest Huntsville residents.My translation: How dare those Negro's think they have rights!
The event comes after the U.S. Department of Justice told the district don't even think about being granted Unitary Status and Council Richard Showers and Commissioner Bob Harrison called them out for as the young people say "dissing their constituents".
The "rally" moved inside the building for part 2 of the PR offensive as the Superintendent posed with African American students, and the BOE was allowed to bash, bully, and browbeat citizens, and accuse them of threatening their lives on camera, but turning the camera's off when it was time for the citizens to speak. Can't have the public hearing both sides of the story, that would be too much like right, pun intended. He/she who controls the message controls the outcome.
So here's the deal, The Chamber's Board of Directors, Warynski, and the BOE wants Unitary Status in theory but not in practice. They want to be able to say they don't have a dual school system while they maintain and operate a dual school system. I wonder what part of Unitary don't they understand?The Chamber’s Board of Directors also approved a position statement saying it supports the Huntsville City School system’s endeavors to seek unitary status.
Part of the statement reads:
“By attaining unitary status, the (school) System seeks to demonstrate to the local community, businesses, potential residents and the military services that it no longer operates two separate systems – one for African-American students and one for White students – and that it does not discriminate against any students based on their race.
“Unitary status will give the system the autonomy and agility to make education decisions locally in this age of accelerating change. This ensures that our school board is accountable to the citizens of Huntsville. Operating Huntsville as a unitary system will ensure our city is globally competitive and our economy will provide high wage jobs for our graduates and a strong tax base to support quality education for all students.”
The U.S. Department of Justice fired back in federal court late last night, asserting that the Huntsville school board's plan for redrawing zone lines "would leave most students in segregated schools and, in some cases, assign them to even more segregated educational environments."While the Chamber and others are supporting the superintendent and the BOE, who is supporting parents and students? Not the people who were elected and are being paid that's for sure. They care more about pretending to be a Unitary school district than they do the fact they are planning to build a $65 million dollar school less than half a mile from an active rock quarry. A school the community did not ask for, or need. A school that was illegally renamed against the wishes of the community.
While the Chamber, the Mayor, and four members of the NW Cluster of PTA's support Wardynski and the BOE, as for me and mine, we will continue to support the parents and children. Lord knows nobody else is.
From: Bill DenneyIt's 1960 all over again, but Shhhh, don't tell anyone and maybe it will go away. Sigh
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 12:51 PM
To: Bob Harrison
Subject: Your Rant
Commissioner,
Your rant and accusations are TOTALLY unfounded. You had and vehemently supported a Negro female Superintendent who ran the school system, both physically and economically, into the ground.
It is time Negroes, you included, grew up and acted like adult AMERICANS instead of whinnying Negroes with an "America owes me" mentality.
You personify ALL that is wrong with Negroes in America.
Grow up and act like an ADULT AMERICAN instead of a Negro who always uses the race card as an excuse to whine because you don't get what you want.
FIRE ALL CAREER POLITICIANS
THEY ARE DESTROYING AMERICA
WHILE MAKING
MILLIONAIRE$ OF THEMSELVES
12 comments:
I agree, it is NOT 1960. It is 2014 and it's time we do,"FIRE ALL CAREER POLITICIANS" lets start with Harrison and Showers can be next! We need better leaders than they have been!!!!
I was there yesterday and can tell you many many blacks are happy with Dr.W. and the new school that is being built! There were ONLY a handful of those of did not support the school or what Dr. W. has done!! Were you on the sidewalk with a sign? lol
We need to continue to move forward and not continually complain about good things being done in the schools!
You can not please everyone especially the ones who still think everything is about race!!!
I noticed you only want to fire Harrison and Showers, I wonder why? And just because 7 or 8 blacks are "happy" doesn't mean the majority of blacks are "happy." No one is complaining about the good things being done in schools, people are complaining about the bad things that are done in schools, like building a $65 million dollar school half a mile from an active rock quarry without proper testing and violating their own policy to change the name of JOJ.
Why? It's because they are like you! They SPIN everything they possibly can into something about race!!!
Maybe we do need testing for the rock quarry but if no tests are done it is not due to the color of the students at Johnson/Jemisons skin color!
As good as you are at writing I'd love to see some stories that are not blaming whites or Republicans!
We can be wrong too and so can Democrats too!
The only one spinning everything they possible can into something about race and republicans is Y-O-U. This is RedEye's Blog, EYE can write about what EYE what to write about, when EYE want to write about it. If Y-O-U don't like it, don't read it. No one forces you to read anything EYE chose to write about.
True and it's on the net for all to read so EYE can respond with comments.
I read it to to see how someone can continue to believe most everything is about race when it is not. This is 2014 and we have taken giant steps from the time of the Jim Crowe era. In fact most of us under 40 never had to deal with it and no one alive today dealt with slavery! Yes I know it is part of my history but I will not live negatively and blame all the whites alive today for such a bad eras in our history. We progress everyday. We remember the past but yet we move toward a new future.
If it's about race, it's about race. We now have the New Jim Crow esquire.
Moss Jr said in Selma they used gas & bricks to hit marchers. Today it's the legislative process. #votersuppression #NewsOneNow
I can also name many things from us blacks that are racist but you would put a spin on it like you did with Alvin Holmes comments! lol
African American don't have a documented history of racism towards whites.
African Americans did not enslave whites.
African American did not pass Jim Crow Laws.
But this post is not about that. Stay on topic. This is your warning.
From Huff Post 3/21/14:
"Public school students of color get more punishment and less access to veteran teachers than their white peers, according to surveys released Friday by the U.S. Education Department that include data from every U.S. school district.
Black students are suspended or expelled at triple the rate of their white peers, according to the U.S. Education Department's 2011-2012 Civil Rights Data Collection, a survey conducted every two years. Five percent of white students were suspended annually, compared with 16 percent of black students, according to the report. Black girls were suspended at a rate of 12 percent -- far greater than girls of other ethnicities and most categories of boys.
At the same time, minority students have less access to experienced teachers. Most minority students and English language learners are stuck in schools with the most new teachers. Seven percent of black students attend schools where as many as 20 percent of teachers fail to meet license and certification requirements. And one in four school districts pay teachers in less-diverse high schools $5,000 more than teachers in schools with higher black and Latino student enrollment..."
And on and on it goes.
It's not about race? Only if it's not about facts, either.
When they say it's not about race, it's about race. It's OK to think black/brown/poor students don't deserve to have equal access to a quality, public education, but if you have the power to act on your belief and deny them equal access to a quality public education, that's racist/racism. It takes power to exercise racism. That's a fact.
You can spin stats just as I could to prove your point.
The students get suspended or expelled more because they violate more school policies!
Response to Redeye
1. not in the past but now many hate crimes are occurring against whites. Knockout game, N.B.P.P. leaders calling for the killing of crackers and white babies etc
2. They helped when they caught blacks in Africa and put them on boats. History does show blacks owning blacks slaves in America! By 1830 there were 3,775 black families living in the South who owned black slaves. By 1860 there were about 3,000 slaves owned by black households in the city of New Orleans alone.
Sources:
John Casor
Anthony Johnson
3. True
I am not trolling I just replied to your post!
We make up a smaller percent of the population so go back that fact as well when you post facts. It saddens me that we have a higher crime rate then others and that also factors the same way in Huntsville school system. When you can prove kids are suspended, expelled or arrested based on their race I'll listen but you can't!!
Again go sub at Butler,Johnson or any North school and then maybe you will have a more clear vision to see what takes place inside the halls.
There is no conspiracy theory in Huntsville to suspend, expel or arrest more kids of color!
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