I'm listening to a SF school board meeting and the current topic of debate is whether a gay dad with mixed-race kids is diverse enough for a PAC appointment, because he's white
Nobody on this call has even suggested that the guy is unqualified, many people saying he's overqualified, this doesn't seem to matter at all
"Seth would be the only male on the PAC, and the only LGBTQ member. He has a mixed race child.
This notion of 'oh, he is just a white person and therefore we can't have him'
is absolutely nonsense.
There's diversity beyond the color of our skin."
This notion of 'oh, he is just a white person and therefore we can't have him'
is absolutely nonsense.
There's diversity beyond the color of our skin."
(Sorry for the weird formatting, pasting from the live transcript.)
They're refusing to vote, vaguely requesting that the PAC present them a slate of candidates with more non-white people on it, but it's unclear what the next step is and everybody seems... fine with that?
(For those not close to this, PAC is the acronym for Parent Advisory Council.)
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