Yesterday, the Hillsborough County School Board had an intense and robust conversation about our award winning equity policy. We’ve been notified by the state that we needed to review our policy, as they are concerned parts of it might be out of compliance with the new “anti-woke” legislation - specifically our purpose statement that talks about “institutional racism”. And even though we repeatedly asked for more clarity regarding how our policy might conflict with the law, we haven’t been provided with any more clarity from the state regarding any specific violations. I urge you all to watch the workshop for yourselves, when you have time.
n response to yesterday’s workshop, here is an email that I received this morning. I honestly can’t tell if this is genuine or satire.
(Possible trigger warning)
Subject: Major racism issue Hillsborough County Public Schools ignores
“Hello Hillsborough County Public Schools Board of Education members,
With all the accusations in Hillsborough County Public Schools of systemic racism against minorities (not supported by the facts) and an emphasis on “institutional racism”, there's a growing movement to have a Thank You White People Day
· White people created the very high standard of living all races in the USA enjoy
· They allowed non-Whites from all over the world to immigrate to the USA
· By 2044 Whites will no longer be the majority (Census Bureau) in the highly advanced country they created, extremely generous of them
· Many immigrants don't want to assimilate (destroys the cohesiveness and harmony of a country)
The USA was almost 90 percent White until the deceptive Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (proponents claimed it would not change demographics) flooded the country (chain migration big factor) with non-White immigrants (the USA became an economic superpower by about 1890).
White people created the government, the corporations, industries, technology, healthcare system, the banking system, the universities, made the US dollar the international currency etc.
The ubiquitous word “diversity” in the media, education and politics supports discrimination in hiring in companies, organizations, government agencies and education (especially management positions) against heterosexual White males and in many cases White females.
The ubiquitous phrase “people of color” intentionally divides society and marginalizes White people, Caucasians in one group and everybody else in another group. White is a color, White has 52 shades.
These days, there is more racism among the minority groups than from Whites to any minority group. For example, go to a Black neighborhood and tell them the Mexicans and the Vietnamese are moving in and see what happens.
Canada, Australia and many European countries, such as Sweden, Germany, Great Britain and France, are also generously allowing a vast number of non-White people to immigrate to their countries (huge amount of problems including financial and violence), perhaps they should also have a Thank You White People Day.
Are any non-White countries with an above average standard of living such as South Korea, Japan or Uruguay opening their countries to poor people of all races from all over the world? No, just White countries, yet White people are called racists, it’s absurd.
White people have sent billions of dollars to Africa and a vast amount of food and medicine and other vital items.
They also created the Affirmative Action program in the 1960’s so companies could hire Blacks based on their skin color and colleges could enroll Blacks based on their skin color.
Due to all the inaccurate information about White people (the most generous race in the world), perhaps Hillsborough County Public Schools can create a Thank You White People Day to show appreciation for their enormous generosity; they allowed millions of poor non-White immigrants (expensive) from all over the world to immigrate to their country and enjoy a high standard of living even though they're going to become a minority in the United States.
