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0:59Now PlayingA “woke” middle-school teacher in Oregon equated teachers who aren’t actively “anti-racist” with pedophiles in a bizarre rant — and said they should be fired, according to newly surfaced video.
Katherine Watkins, who teaches eighth-grade humanities at the Cedar Park Middle School outside Portland, made the extreme comparison during a Zoom “equity conference’’ call with her peers.
“I’m going to say something that’s not nice and not sweet, but it’s true,” the Beaverton School District instructor said in footage posted by the conservative national advocacy group Parents Defending Education.
“If you’re not evolving into an anti-racist educator, you’re making yourself obsolete in this field of profession,” Watkins then lectured.
“Our district is only getting browner and browner with our children, and so obviously, you can’t change your melanin, all right? But you can change your mind so that you can actually function in a district that is full of BIPOC [black, indigenous and people of color] children,” she continued in the February virtual call that surfaced online late last month.
“So if you’re being resistant, I understand that, but you’re going to have to eventually come to the light.”
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