Outrage as Bigoted Teacher Interrupts Black History Month Celebration

at Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle School, Lynchburg, Virginia.

Fed-up teacher urged students to "leave the auditorium with him if they feel the same way":

http://www.wdbj7.com/video/dunbar-teacher/38290490

 

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/loc...755-209a-5ff4-9d8c-888e88ce45b0.html?mode=jqm

"whatever his motivation, the rudeness of the teacher’s interruption betrayed a lack of respect for and understanding of black history"

"Owen Cardwell, who was one of two black students to desegregate the school system in 1962 and afterward became a respected civil rights leader and a pastor, said after hearing of the interruption at Dunbar he was disappointed in the teacher."

"'I’m really kind of surprised that a teacher does not understand that … a big part of the African-American story is steeped in spiritual tradition. And for him to take offense at the religious nature of that says to me that he’s ignorant of a culture,' Cardwell said. 'It disturbs me that he possibly could be limiting the exposure that students that he teaches would have if he didn’t have that depth of understanding.'"