It’s one thing — one ridiculously stupid, ignorant, slanderous, though eminently predictable thing — for the Angry Left and the NC NAACP to react to the Wake County school board revolution by calling everyone involved racist and pretend it was a move to “resegregate the schools” and “set Wake County back 50 years” and all the rest of their unimaginative race-based slanders. Never mind that minority students’ performance in Wake County was worse than their peers in Wayne County, which the NAACP is protesting as an apartheid system. The state’s motto is Esse quam videri, to be rather than to seem — but to the state’s diversityniks, producing a policy that harms minority students but is done supposedly to help them is wonderful and anyone who dares question it is a racist.
It’s a completely different matter to move from effete insults to trying to destroy a man’s career. From the N&O today:
Wake County school board member John Tedesco may lose his job because of his outspoken views on the diversity policy and community-based schools.
Tedesco acknowledged his employer, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle, has been getting pressure from supporters of the diversity policy who’ve questioned whether he should continue working for the non-profit. He said Big Brothers has not asked him to resign despite the lobbying from outside the group.
Rumors have been swirling that Tedesco was being targeted by those who argue his opposition to the diversity policy is at odds with his employer’s work helping at-risk children, most of whom are poor and minorities. Big Brothers doesn’t have an official position on the diversity policy.
There’s no better way to describe this than pure evil. The people behind this passive-aggressive smear campaign should be ashamed of themselves. They ought to see a consistency in Tedesco’s passion for helping poor, underprivileged children with his interest in the Wake County school board. And speaking of consistency, they ought to see a consistency between their desire to deprive Big Brothers of someone who truly cares about kids and their desire to keep Wake County under the burden of a counterproductive policy that is supposed to help poor, underprivileged children but is harming them instead. Tedesco is the BE to their SEEM.
Rather than admit their failure and seek new ways to help the kids they seem to care about, they choose to punish those who choose to be actively concerned about those kids. They should be exposed and denounced. The school system is about the kids, not about their pet, failing programs. They need to get their priorities straightened out rather than seeking out new groups of underprivileged kids to victimize.