{"id":183794,"date":"2021-02-20T03:11:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/letters-to-the-editor-feb-20-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T03:11:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:11:12","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-feb-20-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/letters-to-the-editor-feb-20-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"#Letters to the Editor\u2014 Feb. 20, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Letters to the Editor\u2014 Feb. 20, 2021<\/strong>”
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The Issue: Literature sent to parents by an East Village school asking them to \u201creflect on their whiteness.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The dissemination of racist propaganda at East Side Community HS is beyond reprehensible (\u201cWoke note to parents,\u201d Feb. 17).<\/p>\n

I am both sickened and outraged. Meanwhile, many New York City teachers report that this is the norm for their teacher trainings.<\/p>\n

Rather than using this time to assist and guide teachers toward excelling in the classroom, \u201ctrainings\u201d consist of incessant race-baiting.<\/p>\n

I urge my fellow New Yorkers to contact their elected representatives. Racism has no place in our schools or anywhere else in our nation.<\/p>\n

Maria Fleckenstein<\/em>
Manhattan<\/em><\/p>\n

This tops the cake: I hope Principal Mark Federman is fired on the spot.<\/p>\n

How the hell is this OK \u2014 asking parents how white they are? Can you imagine if this had been passed out to black parents asking how black they are?<\/p>\n

This man needs to be fired immedia<\/a>tely. This is racist and unacceptable.<\/p>\n

Lance Lovejoy<\/em>
Queens<\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Post reported this week that a New York City public school principal sent parents a pamphlet asking parents to reflect on their \u201cwhiteness.\u201d<\/p>\n

The handout was accompanied by a color-coordinated meter with a red zone on the left titled \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d and the far right green zone labeled \u201cwhite abolitionist.\u201d<\/p>\n

When parents called to complain, a spokesman said: \u201cOur staff are now being targeted with vile racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs and degrading language.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the accusations are true, then I would be the first to condemn the response \u2014 but know how lefties respond to criticism: They cry wolf a lot. Maybe it was simply parents being concerned about what their children are being taught.<\/p>\n

In my humble opinion, telling white kids they are racists for being white and telling black kids they are victims because they are black are wrong.<\/p>\n

How about just teaching kids to be colorblind and to treat everyone with respect? Basing every relationship on identity is wrong, period.<\/p>\n

Michael G. Hart<\/em>
Kokomo, Ind.<\/em><\/p>\n

Once again, the race-card-carrying wokeism of the Department of Education under Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza proves that it can\u2019t function in a civilized society.<\/p>\n

The very essence of Carranza\u2019s anti-racism and diversity training is, in fact, racist at its core. There is zero justification for the use of such offensive and hateful material to be disseminated by principals to parents as \u201cfood for thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be clear, Barnor Hesse\u2019s ethnography of whiteness is neither thought-provoking nor scholarly. It\u2019s racially antagonistic and alienating. There is nothing remotely respectful or dignified in this vitriolic discourse.<\/p>\n

This is pure insanity and does nothing to improve race relations and fix the problems that ail the fledgling New York City public school system. <\/p>\n

Theresa O\u2019Brien<\/em>
Melville<\/em><\/p>\n

As an educator and reader of The Post, I am perplexed after reading this article.<\/p>\n

As the article mentioned, the student population is 55 percent Hispanic, 18 percent white, 15 percent black, 10 percent Asian and 2 percent \u201cother.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, was the information sent out only to \u201cwhite\u201d families or also to the other 80 percent who were considered minority? If it was sent to all, doesn\u2019t this create a system of hatred and misunderstanding of one\u2019s culture?<\/p>\n

It serves no purpose to send this information to a community that is more minority than it is \u201cwhite.\u201d In fact, it does nothing more but to anger communities of minorities and incite hate.<\/p>\n

Chris Piccigallo<\/em>
Brooklyn<\/em><\/p>\n

This \u201cwhite\u201d list sent out to parents from a public school is the most divisive action they could\u2019ve have taken.<\/p>\n

These types of actions from the left make me want to pull my children out of school and move to some secluded area in Alaska \u2014 away from all the madness.<\/p>\n

Steve Preziosa<\/em>
Deptford Township, NJ<\/em><\/p>\n

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