Thanks to A Texas Reader for this story.
Black KVUE “reporter” Shelton Green, other KVUE personnel, and local black students and their parents, have deliberately caused hysteria here through omitting essential information (lying by omission), and distorting what little information they have provided.
Reading between the lines, it appears that a white teacher-coach said something to a white student that was meant to suck up to racist blacks, but which the racist blacks deliberately misinterpreted.
"[The white kid] was saying 'I have black kids in my family, how come I can't be excused from class to go help with the Black History program too?'" said a Smithville parent who didn't want to reveal her identity, but says she has a son and nephew both of whom were in the class Thursday.
"The coach replied to him 'Are they hanging in trees in your front yard?'" said the aunt.
Actually, other hearsay quotes were that the kid had said that he had black relatives, which can be very different. The story was quoting black parents saying what their kids had said they had heard first or second-hand, which is always a great way to report on an explosive matter.
Black “relatives” could mean step-parents and/or step-siblings, or uncles or aunts by marriage.
In any event, white teachers today are increasingly getting in trouble for saying things in the presence of racist black students that the teachers had said, in order to suck up to those students, but which the latter turned inside out, and used against the whites. For instance, we hear at least once a year of a white teacher working some horrible example of slavery into a math class (How many times would you whip a slave…?”)
In order to be certified as a public school teacher, candidates must attend classes in ideological indoctrination both in college teacher education dictatorships, and increasingly, within the public school bureaucracy, as well. The pedagogical/professional goals are:
1. For white candidates to prove that they hate their own race (and to eliminate candidates who show insufficient hatred toward their own race), and for non-whites to prove that they also hate whites;
2. For candidates to be inculcated in the importance of the pedagogy of relevance, whereby all lessons must be geared towards reinforcing the prejudices of protected groups, and expressing hatred towards non-protected groups. Thus, a teacher will work “relevant” examples into all classes, depicting their members as victim/heroes, and depicting members of non-protected groups as evil/bumbling fools.
However, the whites’ attempts to develop rapport with racist black (or Hispanic) students often blow up in their faces, because the students have been taught by their “parents” and other black adults to decry any mention of race by a white (or non-mention of race, indeed, anything a white authority figure says or does) as “racist.” Thus, the white teachers’ attempts to connect to blacks are doomed.
Smithville coach investigated for alleged racist remarks
By Shelton Green
February 27, 2015 10:35 p.m. CST
KVUE
SMITHVILLE, Texas – A Smithville High School coach and teacher is on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation into something he allegedly said in class.
The incident was reported around 11:30 a.m. Thursday. A handful of African American students in an English class were excused to go help set up a Black History Month program.
After they left, a Caucasian student asked the teacher if he could also participate saying he had African American relatives, the teacher made a comment thinking all of the African American students were gone.
"He was saying 'I have black kids in my family, how come I can't be excused from class to go help with the Black History program too?'" said a Smithville parent who didn't want to reveal her identity, but says she has a son and nephew both of whom were in the class Thursday.
"The coach replied to him 'Are they hanging in trees in your front yard?'" said the aunt.
Alicia Elam's son told her a very similar story about what started as an innocent request from a student who happened to be white.
"He was saying 'I have black kids in my family, how come I can't be excused from class to go help with the Black History program too?' And the coach replied to him 'Are they hanging in trees in your front yard?'" said Elam.
What the teacher did not know is that Alicia Elam's son, who is African American, a star athlete and on the Honor Roll, was sitting in the back.
Elam says her son left the class heading toward the office and the teacher chased him down asking him if he had called his mom.
"My family is very dedicated and committed to this community. We love the people of this town. We love the small town, but I'm outraged that something like this can be done in a classroom setting and the coach consider it a joke," added Elam.
Smithville ISD Superintendent Rock McNulty told KVUE the matter is under investigation and that he expects quick movement because he says the issue is important.
The school district is not naming the coach involved. Sources say he's been at Smithville High for almost two years, is from the Dallas area and is in his early to mid 20s.
"What bothered me the most is my son said to me, 'Mom, we should be used to this by now' and that was heartbreaking because I don't feel like we should ever get used to racism or prejudice or discrimination," added Elam.
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