Black National Teacher of the Year spewed hatred of America in TEDx talk to high-schoolers

May 1, 2019 By M. Catharine Evans

On November 17, 2018, Rodney Robinson, who was just named 2019 National Teacher of the Year, spoke,  at a TEDx youth conference in Richmond, Virginia. Robinson, a black social studies and history teacher at a Richmond juvenile detention center, opened his remarks with a lead-in to his main topic: a racist America. If, as Sean Hannity says, "journalism is dead," after listening to Robinson, we can safely add, "Public education is dead."

From YouTube:

There is one phrase I hate more than any other phrase in America, and I'm sure a lot of the young people in this room can relate to this phrase, and that phrase is "back in the day."

Why does the 40-year-old teacher of the year "hate" this phrase? Well, it has to do with those obnoxious parents and grandparents — you know, the ones who fought wars, raised families, went to church, and slogged off to work every day. They are full of baloney, according to Robinson, whose grade school–level prattle belies his achievement of a master’s degree. "Back in the day," Robinson jokes, they tell their kids and grandkids we didn't have "Mybook or Snapgram," and "we had to be in before the streetlights came on."

When I think of "back in the day," Robinson told the young people, "I think of a time when black people were lynched for violating the various rules and regulations upholding white supremacy." ..........

Then it was on to bullying; the brave Parkland student activists marching for gun control; and finally the Trump administration, which "insults minorities, that denies the rights of gays, lesbians and transgender peoples, a government that separates asylum seeking families and locks their children in cages.  [It] is not the adults who must stand up to these inhumane acts; it's the children who must lead the way, so rise up, young people.".........Read more

My Take - Is there any reason to doubt he and his ilk are responsible for the failure of public education to turn out student who can read, write, spell, and do basic math and for colleges to require students to take remedial reading courses?  This man is a disgrace!