Given the various potential messages to ship about Seattle’s current election outcomes, I query the judgment of The Seattle Occasions editorial workers in selecting to take challenge with Faculty Board President Brandon Hersey’s selection on social media [“Off-color post is unbecoming of Seattle’s school board president,” Nov. 15, Opinion].
Adults use grownup language in grownup areas, which is what social media needs to be. This was not an elementary college board occasion, however quite the net equal of holding the microphone at an election evening social gathering.
Hersey is a black man, which makes this tone police particularly creepy. We may debate whether or not it is a racist editorial, nevertheless it actually hearkens again to an earlier period when white elites felt free to inform black women and men to “keep in line.”
Hersey is a revered former instructor who works tirelessly (and largely unpaid) to enhance Seattle Public Colleges. He was justifiably excited that the incoming college board members will assist advance his imaginative and prescient for the district.
Be happy to query Hersey’s coverage path, however to sentence one direct sentence is a pointless undermining of a devoted chief.
Jennie Romich, Seattle
