Community activists were protesting outside the Duval County Public School Board meeting Monday pushing for whoever the new superintendent is to embrace diversity.
The Jacksonville Leadership Coalition, Public School Defenders and Take ‘Em Down Jax demonstrated outside district headquarters ahead of a school board meeting.JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Several community activist groups rallied outside Duval County Public Schools headquarters Monday, demanding the district embrace diversity and inclusion, “teach true Black history” and put banned books back on classroom shelves.
“This is America. We are diverse, and everybody has a right to be a human,” Gundy said. “When you don’t allow them to be a human, you are not a democracy anymore. You are a fascist nation.” “It’s wrong. Every human being has a right to be treated like a human being, regardless of their race, their race, their gender, their ethnicity, the color of their skin, their sexual orientation. They have a right to be treated like a human.”
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