A Florida military veteran went viral this week after delivering an impassioned speech at a school board meeting railing against the district’s recent racial equity statement.
“The school board recently adopted an equity statement. Why? Your only job is education, not indoctrination,” the unidentified man shouted at the Palm Beach County school board, resulting in cheers from the audience.
“Attention board members: Our nation is a republic! We are the people, we have a voice, our votes are our weapons, and we will use them in 2022 and beyond,” the man continued. “We in the military, our blood, our sweat, is the equity. It is courage, character; not color, not gender, that makes this nation great. Working Americans are united, we are not divided. Stop trying to incite division among us.”
“We are Americans first, and we will be free always,” he said at the end of the clip.
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The recently devised equity statement refers to “white advantage” and mentions “redistributing resources” to achieve “equitable outcomes.”
“Achieving racial equity requires proactive and continuous investment in historically marginalized groups who have endured centuries of systemic oppression,” part of the statement reads. “The School District of Palm Beach County is committed to dismantling structures rooted in white advantage and transforming our system by hearing and elevating under-represented voices, sharing power, recognizing and eliminating bias, and redistributing resources to provide equitable outcomes.”
As a result of the public outcry against the statement, the school board is reportedly now considering removing the “white advantage” portion of the text.
“It is evident that a few of the words are not helpful and, in fact, are harmful,” board member Karen Brill said.
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Brill proposed board members meet next week to revise the statement, with fellow board member Frank Barbieri agreeing.
“I think it’s important that we understand that was the purpose of the equity statement,” he said. “It wasn’t to make it a black-and-white issue, which is what the perception now is.”
