Fighting for Public Schools Means Fighting Against Systemic Racism – United Opt Out Education and Civil Rights Summit
What do you do when you hold a civil rights summit and none of the big names show up?
That’s what happened last weekend when United Opt Out (UOO) held its Education and Civil Rights Summit in Houston, Texas.
We invited everybody.
We invited the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). We invited the National Council of La Raza “The People,” the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the Urban League and several others.
None came.
But instead we were host to many of these organizations individual members.
Just how many people came to the Lone Star State for the summit? Thousands? Hundreds?
Just how many people came to the Lone Star State for the summit? Thousands? Hundreds?
More like dozens.
Not only did the major civil rights groups neglect to send their leadership, but the bulk of our nation’s education activists also stayed away.
United Opt Out had just gone through a major reorganization on philosophical grounds. Only three of its long-time board members remain – Denisha Jones, Ruth Rodriguez and Ceresta Smith. They have since been joined by five new directors – Gus Morales, Zakary Rodriguez, Erika Strauss Chavarria, Deborah Anderson and Steven Singer (me).
The directors that left the group did so for various reasons, but some of them split Fighting for Public Schools Means Fighting Against Systemic Racism – United Opt Out Education and Civil Rights Summit | gadflyonthewallblog:
