This is why I don’t sugar-coat Oak Park. This is why I don’t fall into the rhetoric of describing Oak Park so so “accepting,
liberal, diverse, open-minded, etc. etc.”. This story made the news, but acts of racism and prejudice are commit daily at OPRF, far too many without acknowledgment. Let me just say, this is NOT an isolated experience in the slightest. And now when my mentor and OPRF teacher (who happens to be a black man) speaks up about it, he is suspended. If you’re not doing something about this, you might as well have been the boy who posted the blackface on his social media or one of the folks who decided to suspend a man who has dedicated his whole life to fighting of equity and justice.
Jalyn Jones
I agree Sydney but if he actually did break protocol and do something prohibited it makes sense that he was suspended. I don't think talking about the issue would have led to consequences it's because he posted the kid's face.
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Aisha Oliver
Per usual the actual issue that should be addressed is being swept under the rug. Meanwhile they demonize and use their powers to “make an example” of the one with the purest heart in the situation and of course it’s the black man.
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Maggie Lynch
I offer myself as a white ally when I say this conversation has been long overdue at OPRF. Mr. Clark's suspension is a call to our hometown to wake the hell up. While it is easy to place blame solely on oprf for the institutionaliz
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Matthew Dibbern
He can talk about it all he want only reason he was suspended was because he posted the kid picture
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