BREAKING NEWS – Richmond, Virginia – A civil rights leader and Virginia parent activists condemned Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe for emphasizing the race of teachers in Virginia’s public school system and lamenting that more teachers are white while roughly half of Virginia public school students are not.
“It is explicitly and implicitly a racist approach to education,” stated Bob Woodson, a civil rights veteran and president of The Woodson Center. “The assumption is that in order to recruit more Black teachers that you’ve got to subsidize candidates in order for them to teach, they’re not offering this to white candidates,” the civil rights veteran said, adding that this assumes that Black students “need subsidies to teach.”
McAuliffe responded to Woodson’s assessment. “Every time I hear a vocal black person contradicting something that I say, I always wish I had a time machine, and I’ll leave it at that!”