24 June 20
This is a continuation of the the critique of the Op-Ed "The silenced plight of Hamilton's racialized students" written by Kojo Damptey and published in the Spectator on 23 June.
In a ridiculous screed, author Kojo Damptey delivered a spectacular performance of rank egotism. She seems to think schooling ought to revolve around, not education, but her causes. And she’s tired of ‘carrying the burden’ of teaching the school board what their true job is, and it isn’t merely confessing to white guilt.
Forgive me for thinking that the purpose of public education was education. You know, the teaching of hard facts and the development of skills both mental and physical. Kojo and Company (she speaks of ‘our anger’) believes the role of the school board, as measured by their priorities, is to “deal with the realities of racism,” which is a pretty shrivelled view of schooling.
Kojo & Co. object to the arrest of black students and forcing them into the back of a cruiser, while the Board remains silent. She terms an arrest ‘police violence.’ However, Kojo offers no alternative to dealing with drug pushers in school, or actions to take when a student is murdered. Having the Board make ‘symbolic gestures of solidarity’, whatever that means, seems bizarre and insufficient.
The egocentricity bellows on for hundreds of words, but weirdly concludes with a call for the firing of Glenn DeCaire as head of security at McMaster University. What the head of Mac security has to do with racism in high schools isn’t mentioned, but the call derives from “lived experiences.”
As serious as a child with a loaded gun.
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