Following that discussion, an Oklahoma teacher is under fire and a high school is mired in the debate about how teachers should inject themselves into conversations about race in the United States. NBC affiliate KFOR reported on the controversy last week after receiving a recording from an offended student at Norman North High School.
In the recording, the teacher shows a YouTube clip about imperialism. A man in the video uses white-out on a globe to illustrate how European influence spread across the world.
The discussion follows.
In the recording, the teacher asks: Am I racist? And I say yeah. I dont want to be. Its not like I choose to be racist, but do I do things because of the way I was raised.
To be white is to be racist, period, the teacher says.
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