A letter from European Americans United Board of Directors to the teachers at Northside School.
We were distressed to hear that you are uncritically employing a PublicService Announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute in your curriculum(Service Learning-You Tube Nation ).The particular announcement portrays European-American children as agroup, and without qualification, as abusers of children who are ofother ethnicities (“environmental racism”).
If the ethnicities of the participants in the PSA had been reversed; you wouldn’t dream of showing this to children.
In addition to this, the information in the PSA portrayed as factual isdeceptively skewed. If you were to draw a map of every land fill, everyclosed gas station with possible leaking tanks and so forth; you wouldfind that practically every American lives within a short distance ofsuch a site.
While we understand that environmental issues are a very importantconcern for all Americans, we are really disappointed, indeed angry,that you felt that the best way to put forth their importance was toportray European-American children as somehow evil just by virtue oftheir birth.
By leveraging your time and energy toward putting vilification intoyour environmental cause–by equating the existence of landfills andtoxic waste sites with white racism–we can only conclude you hold the sameviews with avarice toward all persons of European extraction, whichclearly implies a definite level of bigotry.
As an educator, you should be well aware of the importance ofself-image for educational achievement. And as an educator, you shouldalso know that this PSA, and the discussion surrounding it, could onlydo harm to the self-image of European-American children withunquantifiable but undoubtedly adverse consequences coming down theroad.
This sort of deliberate psychological abuse of children just because oftheir ethnicity at birth is really unconscionable, and unworthy of aprofessional educator.
We therefore demand the following. Either remove the materials oraccompanying anti-European-American discussion from your curriculum,reform your views of European-Americans so that they don’t have tosuffer psychological abuse, or remove yourself from a position ofpower, control and authority in dealing with innocent children who haveno choice but to absorb the harmful material you are feeding them.
Very truly,
Mr. Drago Rendal
Mr. Frank Roman
Mr. Robert Tanner
Board of Directors, European Americans United
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