"Two Boston school officials have resigned over surfaced private text messages slamming White parents as “delusional” and “racist.”...
- “Wait until the white racists start yelling at us,” Ms. Rivera said to Ms. Oliver-Dávila at the time in a text message obtained through a Boston Globe public records request.
- “Whatever. They’re delusional,” Ms. Oliver-Dávila, who is of Argentinian and Nicaraguan descent, responded.
- “I hate WR,” added Ms. Oliver-Dávila, referring to West Roxbury, The Globe reported.
- “Sick of Westie whites,” Ms. Rivera, who is from Puerto Rico, replied.
- “Me too. I really feel like saying that,” Ms. Oliver-Dávila responded.
Mayor Kim Janey said the resignations leave “a void in Latina leadership on our school committee that I am determined to address,” The Associated Press reported.
...Ms. Rivera said, “I am being targeted as a Latina gender studies professor who teaches about racism, patriarchy, and oppression.”
“Because of the harassment and overwhelming stress from School Committee-related work, my mental and physical health has deteriorated, so I need to resign and recuperate,” she said.
The controversial texts were sent during a virtual school board hearing as it was considering a proposal to temporarily drop the entrance test requirement to the city’s exam schools, AP reported...Read all.
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