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Norman NBC-affiliate KFOR reported on the controversy last week after receiving a recording from an offended student at Norman North High School.
In the recording, the teacher shows a YouTube clip about imperialism. A man in the video uses white-out on a globe to illustrate how European influence spread across the world.
The discussion follows.
In the recording, the teacher asks: "Am I racist? And I say yeah. I don't want to be. It's not like I choose to be racist, but do I do things because of the way I was raised."
"To be white is to be racist, period," the teacher says.
The offended student told KFOR in an interview that she felt picked on because she is white. The station didn't name the student or the teacher.
"Half of my family is Hispanic, so I just felt like, you know, him calling me racist just because I'm white. I mean, where's your proof in that," she said. "I felt like he was encouraging people to kind of pick on people for being white."
"You start telling someone something over and over again that's an opinion, and they start taking it as fact
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/10/19/to-be-white-is-to-be-racist-period-a-high-school-teacher-told-his-class/?tid=sm_fb