Terry McAuliffe revealed his racist ways on Sunday while campaigning for governor. While addressing a crowd in Manassas, Virginia, he stated his intentions to “diversify” those who are teachers in the state.
“We got to work hard to diversify our teacher base,” McAuliffe said. “Fifty percent of our students are students of color. Eighty percent of the teachers are white, so what I’m going to do for you — we’ll be the first state in America. If you go teach in Virginia for five years in a high-demand area — that could be geographic, it could be course work — we will pay room, board, tuition, any college, any university, or any HBCU (historically black colleges and universities) here in Virginia.”
So, McAuliffe seems to be saying he would like to phase out white teachers through attrition solely because of the color of their skin. His implication that students of color need teachers who are students of color should raise red flags. This would suggest that students of color are inferior insofar that they can only achieve certain academic standards based on the race of the teacher, not their intellects. McAuliffe seems to insinuate that nonwhite students cannot compete with white students without special circumstances.
Civil rights leader Bob Woodson also noticed this.
“The assumption is that in order to recruit more black teachers that you’ve got to subsidize candidates in order for them to teach. They’re not offering this to white candidates,” Woodson told Fox News. He added that McAuliffe’s words infer that black people can’t be treated as equals and instead “need subsidies to teach.”
Nothing says good, quality education like telling 65% of the population to drop dead and don’t bother applying.
Author and scholar Asra Nomani was also taken aback by McAuliffe. The vice president of strategy and investigations at Parents Defending Education, a new national advocacy group for parents, she too condemned McAuliffe’s words as racist.
“In the name of ‘diversity’ and ‘equity,’ the ugly truth about Terry McAuliffe’s race-based hiring plan is that it is illiberal and racist,” Asra Nomani told me. “McAuliffe would dismantle old hierarchies of human value and replace them with new racist hierarchies of human value.”
McAuliffe’s plan probably also violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination “in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.”
McAuliffe seems to think it’s a big problem that half of Virginia students are not white and 80% of the state’s teachers are white. He is insinuating that there’s some kind of problem with people of different races living and learning together. How did he arrive at such a conclusion? Do black students, for example, perform more poorly if they have white teachers? McAuliffe doesn’t provide any evidence for such an absurd statement. And how exactly are you supposed to calculate the appropriate percentage of nonwhite teachers in a school system with a certain percentage of nonwhite students?
Should white students be taught by white teachers? Nonwhite students by nonwhite teachers? You know what that sounds like. It is 2021, and Democrats are back to their party’s roots with their segregationist tricks.
McAuliffe’s racist dream is not the dream Martin Luther King Jr. had in mind when he hoped the children of the future would be “judged not by the color of their skin but the content of their character.”
