In the latest example demonstrating that progressives don’t care about racism, a California school district excused a brazen act of racism by pretending it wasn’t racist because it was perpetrated by a black student.
Earlier this month, someone at C.K. McClatchy High School thought it would be neat to scrawl the words “White” and “Colored” over water fountains. At first, the discovery of the deed elicited outrage. But, as is the case in most publicized situations of this type, it was later revealed to be a hoax. Video footage showed a black female student writing the words above the fountains.
Race and equity monitor Mark T. Harris said the student confessed, but that he did not believe her act to be racist.
“I don’t believe those words that were on those water fountains were racist,” he said. “I do not believe they were hate crime or hate speech. Part of it quite honestly is because the admitted perpetrator is a young African American woman.”
Harris told the Sacramento Bee that the student should not be given excessive punishment, characterizing the act as a “prank.”
“It was a prank that went sideways is my characterization of what the young woman said in her confession,” Harris explained. “It should be a moment for our community to come together and make sure this doesn’t destroy this person’s life.”
The district said it will take “appropriate disciplinary action.”
“Sac City Unified takes any instance of racial intolerance extremely seriously because such acts harm our students and our entire community,” Superintendent Jorge Aguilar said in a statement released to the press. “While identification of the person involved in this incident has been addressed, we also will remain focused on supporting the healing of students and staff who have been impacted by this troubling act of vandalism.”
As is their usual modus operandi, leftist activists defended the student and argued the incident was indicative of the racism embedded in the community.
“Why is it when you find something like this we find the black students quicker than we find the white students,” asked Betty Williams, president of the Greater Sacramento NAACP.
She complained that this particular situation was resolved quicker than a previous incident involving racist graffiti that occurred at West Campus High School.
“I want you to put that same energy into West Campus. I want you to put that same energy into every school district that’s dealing with these issues. It’s a problem. We have racism that’s rooted in this school district,” she stressed.
Barry Accius, an activist with Voice of the Youth referred to the hoax as an “ignorant act” but insisted that the real culprit is racial bigotry.
“Because of the racism here in this school, the microaggressions here in this school, makes me feel like I do not belong. This is a problem, not only with the school but the district,” he said. “And this is why we’ve been loud.”
It’s easy to see that the progressives involved in this story care nothing about racism when you play a quick round of “Put the shoe on the other foot.”
Imagine a scenario in which a white student wrote anti-white racial slurs on a wall in a school. The act would be designed to make it seem as if racist minority students were lashing out at whites.
Would any of these people hesitate to call the student racist?
Of course not.
The reason why is that committing an act specifically designed to make undeserving non-white students look like racists is, well, racist. Targeting a specific racial group to portray them as evil is the very essence of racial bigotry, isn’t it?
Mr. Magoo could see that trying to damage white students in this way is clearly racist. But to progressives, it makes more sense to coddle minorities by not requiring them to live up to the same standards as others.
To the white progressive, black and brown students are not capable of conducting themselves in a dignified manner. They are not worthy of being held to a standard and this type of misbehavior should be considered par for the course for non-whites because that’s just who they are because of the impact of racism. If that isn’t racist, I don’t know what is.
