Afrocentric Public School
In light of the recent decision of the Toronto District School Board to approve an Afrocentric School, which to many is merely seen as a school for children based on skin colour, we have received communications opposed to such a school in Toronto and have been asked to support a slate of public school trustee candidates in the 2010 municipal election.
We are currently considering our position on whether to support such a slate.
Fundamentally, The Toronto Party is a party of inclusion.
A comment from our e-mail box:
"If you look at the trustees that voted for this segregated school, they were all supported by the unions and the Campaign for Public Education. What else can we expect from left wing socialists that claim to speak for minorities and the less fortunate of our society?
If Dalton McGuinty and the Liberals truly believed in an inclusive society and school system, he would have come out right away and dissolved this board of trustees as school boards sit at the discretion of the province. If he allows them 18 months to reverse the decision, then it will be too late as the schools will be set up and segregation will have been accomplished.
If John Tory and the OPC truly believed in an inclusive society and school system, he would have come out right away against this racist decision instead of trying to score partisan political points.
If this decision is left to stand, I wonder how children of mixed races will be viewed if their skin colour is not white and they do not choose to go to these schools? I wonder if the black community will look down on their own that refuse to attend and see them as Uncle Toms? Same goes for the non black community when a black person refuses to attend these schools!! As history tells us, segregation leads to racism.
From where I sit, it seems only the people of Toronto and the Toronto party understand the words of Martin Luther King Jr.:
Quote:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."