A teacher at a California high school who wore blackface on Halloween while imitating rapper Common has been placed on administrative leave.
“Opportunities limitless, possibilities senseless, what will you do?” the teacher rapped in the video. “Millions of people, not enough to eat, what will we do? With A.I. Microsoft technology, the future — it's up to you. You can do it. With A.I., the future will blow your mind.”
The student who uploaded the video said the educator is white and teaches at “mhs,” or Milpitas High School that as of the 2017-2018 school year had a student body that was about 3 percent African American, according to state data. The school board president said that the history of blackface reminds him of the cruelty, hatred and fear his parents and people of African ancestry have dealt with historically and still experience today around the world.
Milpitas Unified School District Superintendent Cheryl Jordan and Milpitas High School principal Francis Rojas said in a statement that the"disparaging" act of one of its staff members who chose to wear blackface on Halloween"adversely affected" the expectation that every student in the district and parent or guardian can have a safe environment in which they can feel respected and valued.
“In a school community where we welcome learners and families from over 50 languages who represent cultures and religions throughout the world, and where our long-standing neighborhood, Sunnyhills, was established as the first city in the nation for planned integration, it hurts to know that this type of cultural insensitivity and lack of cultural awareness still hovers in the background," the statement said.
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