Earlier in December, a Minnesota school board voted to provide an additional stipend to teachers of color if they take on the task of mentoring fellow non-white educators. The policy was adopted as a "retention strategy," hoping to create an environment where teachers of color can feel less isolated. On the other hand, education advocate Cynthia Garrett sees the policy as nothing more than racist.
Speaking on FOX News, Garrett decried the policy. "It's completely racist," Garrett told guest host Sean Duffy. "… It's such Liberal policy disguised as ‘we care about you’ feel-good BS. And it's an attempt to return to something dangerous."
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She went on to bring up the story of Ruby Bridges, the civil rights icon who at age six fought for desegregation of America's schools and became the first African-American student to attend an integrated school in the south.
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Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old Black New Orleans student who was the first child to integrate into a southern school in 1960. Bridges attended school with four federal marshals despite physical and verbal deterrents and even a woman carrying a Black baby doll in a coffin. Only one teacher, Barbara Henry, who was White, taught Bridges all year long.
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"And I'm sure Mrs. Henry felt unsupported and isolated, just like Ruby did," Garrett said. "But you know what they did? They sucked it up and they put on their big girl pants, and they found support in each other because that's what integration is about. It's about understanding that support comes in all ages, races, shapes, and sizes."
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"[Bridges'] foundation is so beautiful because the whole point of her foundation is to actually celebrate the sharing of our differences and to attack racism through integration, not through segregation," she continued. "This little 6-year-old child had more strength than these grown-ups today?!"
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Integration is about realizing that "support comes in all ages, races, shapes, and sizes," Garrett stressed. "Yes, you can find something in common with people that look like you, but that's not what we're really here for. What about the big melting pot of America? This is a country that is built on a shared experience."
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"This same language that these people are using in this school board meeting," Garrett proceeded, "will be used in exactly the same way as it slides down this slippery slope to 'Well these children don't feel good; they need to be around other kids of the same color. Let's go back to segregation." Garrett concluded by quoting Ruby Bridges herself, who voiced that "Racism is a grown-up disease, and we gotta stop using our kids to spread it."
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