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A Zoom meeting this week with members of the Los Angeles La Mesa-Spring Valley school board got racially charged when the Vice President, a Black woman, likened putting teachers back to work to slavery and called parents wanting to reopen schools adherents of a "white supremacy ideology."
The school board member who made the comments did not show her face like the rest of her colleagues did in the open Zoom meeting but has been identified as Vice President Charda Bell-Fontenot. Bell-Fontenot describes herself as a "Black Feminista" as well as an elected official in her Twitter profile.
"We don't have to give anybody any date. We don't have to do anything we don't want to do right now," Charda Bell-Fontenot said at the beginning of the debate.
The fracas started when one board member proposed a vote on the plan to reopen schools and told Bell Fontenot she may abstain from voting if she opposes the plan:
"Why are we forcing what seems like a very white supremacist ideology to force people to comply with, you know, and conform?" Charda Bell-Fontenot asked.
"Just letting you know, privilege, check it guys, she said. "I don't want to be part of forcing anybody to do anything they don't want to do, that's what slavery is. I'm not going to be part of it."
Later on, one school board member took on Bell-Fontenot for accusing others of racism.
"I'm Hispanic and I've got four adopted children. We look like the U.N. So, that's why I say when you're throwing out the racism, I don't understand that part either," she said.
Facebook user Spring Vick posted the 5-minute video with this description:
"The rest of the board was very professional, kept their composure and ushered the meeting back to the subject at hand. Rebecca McRae did a great job as president of keeping things from unraveling further and continuing the meeting until a date was chosen. Charda was definitely out of line with her unprofessional accusations and comments to the other board members," a Facebook user responded.
According to the NBC affiliate in San Diego, the La Mesa-Spring Valley school board voted to pursue its reopening plan.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...t_ideology.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true
The school board member who made the comments did not show her face like the rest of her colleagues did in the open Zoom meeting but has been identified as Vice President Charda Bell-Fontenot. Bell-Fontenot describes herself as a "Black Feminista" as well as an elected official in her Twitter profile.
"We don't have to give anybody any date. We don't have to do anything we don't want to do right now," Charda Bell-Fontenot said at the beginning of the debate.
The fracas started when one board member proposed a vote on the plan to reopen schools and told Bell Fontenot she may abstain from voting if she opposes the plan:
"Why are we forcing what seems like a very white supremacist ideology to force people to comply with, you know, and conform?" Charda Bell-Fontenot asked.
"Just letting you know, privilege, check it guys, she said. "I don't want to be part of forcing anybody to do anything they don't want to do, that's what slavery is. I'm not going to be part of it."
Later on, one school board member took on Bell-Fontenot for accusing others of racism.
"I'm Hispanic and I've got four adopted children. We look like the U.N. So, that's why I say when you're throwing out the racism, I don't understand that part either," she said.
Facebook user Spring Vick posted the 5-minute video with this description:
"The rest of the board was very professional, kept their composure and ushered the meeting back to the subject at hand. Rebecca McRae did a great job as president of keeping things from unraveling further and continuing the meeting until a date was chosen. Charda was definitely out of line with her unprofessional accusations and comments to the other board members," a Facebook user responded.
According to the NBC affiliate in San Diego, the La Mesa-Spring Valley school board voted to pursue its reopening plan.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...t_ideology.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true
