Commentary on an article by edweek. About a man who was fired for teaching about white privilege to his students.

Commentary in bold.

Matthew Hawn, a social studies teacher in rural Tennessee, was driving to work listening to NPR at the beginning of last school year when he heard a report on what was unfolding in Kenosha, Wis.
NPR is propaganda hijacking leftism for social justice division.


A white police officer had shot and injured Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, during a call about a domestic disturbance. Two days later, as protests engulfed the small city over Blake’s shooting, Kyle Rittenhouse, a white teenager, shot and killed two people before walking by police. He was unharmed.

Hawn knew what he’d be talking about in his Contemporary Issues class that day.

“White privilege is a fact,” he told his students after juxtaposing the two incidents. “What we are going to do is we are going to discuss how we can help solve the issue of racism in America. What can we do here in Northeast Tennessee?”
This Juxtaposition is cherry picking. Research Christopher Roupe from Georgia who was killed for walking out of his trailer house with a wii remote. This doesn't prove white privilege is a fact. It just shoves his pet issue into a controversy.

Over the next several months, Hawn, 43, used the news cycle to show students, almost all of whom are white, how systemic racism is an indisputable element of American life.

In early February, after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Hawn assigned a controversial Ta-Nehisi Coates essay called “The First White President,” which pairs the history of white supremacy with the rise of President Donald Trump. During the spring trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, he had students dissect a provocative spoken word poem titled “White Privilege” by Kyla Jenée Lacey.
Again he's shoving his white privilege fixation into every controversy to make it about his distrust of white people

After each lesson, parents complained to administrators, who in turn admonished Hawn.

“Your job is not to teach one perspective,” Ingrid Deloach, assistant director of schools for Sullivan County, wrote in a written reprimand to Hawn on Feb. 3. “Your job is also not to ensure students simply adopt your own personal perspective. Your job—in teaching current events—is to ensure students learn to seek out and consider varying and credible perspectives.”
Seems reasonable

On May 10, Hawn was fired.

His dismissal came three days before Tennessee’s legislature passed into law a series of rules that severely curtail the ways that public school teachers can talk about racism in the classroom. And he became one of the first casualties from the nation’s debate this year over “critical race theory” and whether or how teachers should acknowledge racism in class.

“I don’t even think I even considered not talking about it,” Hawn said in an interview with Education Week. “Because it’s always a contemporary issue, every year it’s a contemporary issue. And so I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t talk about race.”

He has since appealed the dismissal and is currently suspended without pay. His case is expected to be decided in mid-October.