About the Author

The author is a white Anti-Racist, Social Justice Advocate. She seeks knowledge and truths surrounding the interconnections of the historical and contemporary issues of racism across the globe.

With knowledge and truth comes responsibility. As a woman who is part of the dominate white culture and a citizen of the world, there is a responsibility to share information that will

lead to a more culturally humble society.

The author at times reacts in an emotionally charged manner but does so with a

good heart and from a good place.

The author is of the belief that there is only one race label and that is the Human Race.


November 5, 2013

Part 3

Backlash continues against Coatesville school board

By KRISTINA SCALA and MICHAEL N. PRICE ,kscala@dailylocal.com , mprice@dailylocal.com
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The Coatesville Area School Board continued to face public backlash after its members appointed independent legal counsel Tuesday to represent the district in an ongoing criminal investigation and to review the actions of the school board members and those of the district’s embattled solicitor.
 Read more.. http://www.dailylocal.com/general-news/20131024/backlash-continues-against-coatesville-school-board

I have been wondering what the status is regarding the Coatesville School board and their culpability in keeping  the reasons for the former Superintendent Richard Como and Jim Donato's  resignation under wraps. I have some major concerns regarding the school boards actions when appointing an independent counsel to review their own actions in the texting scandal. To my mind,  there is something  very wrong with this picture. Most importantly I have some major legal and ethical questions regarding the employment contracts which  allows the display of racially inappropriate and negative behaviors to be rewarded by allowing folks to resign and keep their retirement and benefits as oppose to being fired. 

 Sadly, part of the problem in this country is that we don't even know the proper definitions of the words that we use.  Because we choose not to apply definitions to be used across all sectors,  this provides society with multiple loop holes for the oppressors to justify NOT  filing criminal or civil charges against racist predators., allowing them to maintain or the ability to resign from their positions. 

 How many definitions have you read regarding the following words? 

Structural Racism
 The many factors that work to produce and maintain racial hierarchies and inequities in America today which includes:
  • National history, values and culture;
  • Public policies, institutional practices and cultural stereotypes 
Racism
A doctrine or belief in racial superiority, including the idea that race determines intelligence, cultural characteristics and moral attributes

Racism thus makes an association between physical psychological and moral attributes and these are used to justify discrimination and prejudice.
Racial Inquity
A social outcome measure that occurs when the distribution of society’s resources, opportunities, and burdens are predictable by race 
Racist language: " language that denigrates a person because of race".
Prejudice involves having negative attitudes and stereotyped beliefs about members of a group. 

  1. While I agree that we cannot do anything in the legal sense to those who possess a  prejudice mind-set against minority groups, we can address the actual behaviors that are displayed as racist however, we as a society choose NOT to develop CONSISTENT and appropriate protocols and laws.

“. . . there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”          
                         Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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