McAuliffe Put a Final Stake in His Campaign With Remarks About White Teachers – Opinion

You can discern a lot from the campaign of Terry McAuliffe or Glenn Youngkin, both candidates for Georgia Governor.

Both are focused on political and nasty politics, but the latter is more concerned with issues which matter to the voters.

@TerryMcAuliffeAnd @GlennYoungkinNorthern Virginia Tonight – contrasting closing message

In Fairfax, McAuliffe will deliver remarks “denouncing” former President Trump’s tele-rally for Youngkin

In Loudoun County, Youngkin will hold a “Parents Matter Rally” #VAGOV

— Julia Manchester (@JuliaManch) November 1, 2021

But if that wasn’t going down the rabbit hole enough already, McAuliffe decided he wanted to put a final stake in his campaign with another divisive message. He was furious that only 80% of the school teachers were white.

Fox News

“We got to work hard to diversify our teacher base,” McAuliffe said at a campaign event in Manassas Sunday.

“Fifty percent of our students are students of color, 80% of the teachers are White, so what I’m going to do for you, we’ll be the first state in America,” he continued. “If you go teach in Virginia for five years in a high-demand area — that could be geographic, it could be course work — we will pay room, board, tuition, any college, any university, or any HBCU here in Virginia.”

This number is close to 77% of the U.S. population. But once again, this is just straight-up racist — where the focus of the hiring isn’t on who’s the best for the job, it’s on the person’s race. McAuliffe is saying it right there — that it’s all about race, it sounds like he’s aiming for a racial quota system.

Fox News said he didn’t respond to their request for comment on the issue.

McAuliffe did not specify whether he supports teachers being assigned racial quotas. His campaign platform aims to “address modern-day segregation in our schools” and aims to “cultivate the next generation of highly qualified and diverse educators.”

It is an awful move, just before the election. But it’s just on top of the other bad moves that have caused his campaign to implode including smearing parents as racists for objecting to things like Critical Race Theory and doubling down on the notion that parents shouldn’t have a say in their kids’ education.

I think it’s time to diversify — away from folks like McAuliffe who are all about identity politics — and toward someone like Glenn Youngkin who actually cares about the education kids get in Virginia and what the parents have to say. According to polling it seems that many Virginians feel this way.