CA School Board Trustee Calls Return to In-Person Learning ‘White Supremacist Ideology’

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CA School Board Trustee Calls Return to In-Person Learning ‘White Supremacist Ideology,’ ‘Slavery’

La Mesa, CA trustee Bell-Fontenot goes off on fellow board members, one of which is Hispanic, saying returning to in-person learning is “a very white supremacist ideology,” telling them to “[check] their privilege,” and that mandating in-person instruction is “slavery.”

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After telling other board members that they “don’t know what they are talking about,” the superintendent stands up for them. She suggests this is racist.

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Like Oakley, she seems unaware she’s being recorded. “If our meetings were actually recorded for the public, we would know that.”

She then suggests they are not easily accessible, however, we found them in about one minute after seeing this recording.

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Here is a YouTube video of 5 minutes of the exchange. She is the only board member not displaying her camera.

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Here is the whole board meeting. In the first few seconds, you hear the announcement the meeting is recorded. The exchange begins around the 1 hour 15 min mark.

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