Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is due an apology

As much as this sort of thing roils me, I just don't have the energy to write much about it. Right now this stuff just makes me tired so forgive me if I make unsupported claims and unattributed quotes. On its way to becoming a national story, this morning a KABC radio reporter showed up to a scheduled interview of the principal of the Academia Semillas del Pueblo school. (UPDATE: In an apparent bid to stave off well deserved bad publicity, they've put their own website off-line. This link now directs you a defensive press release addressing the recent controversy.) The principal reneged and allegedly called in some goons who then roughed up the reporter for asking too many questions and took away the audio tape in his recorder. This, after an alleged telephone warning from the principal to the reporter to "watch your back."

The school is a publicly funded charter school of the Los Angeles Unified School District. It's also an openly racist, separatist, socialist, crazy leftist hole that's not only wasting tax payers' money, but doing irreparable harm to its students. (See quote at end of post.)

I've written elsewhere how I feel about these radical Mecha-type groups. (See also Aztlan.)

A quote from the founder and current principal:

If Brown [v. Board of Education] was just about letting Black people into a White school, well we don’t care about that anymore. We don’t necessarily want to go to White schools. What we want to do is teach ourselves, teach our children the way we have of teaching. We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don’t need a White water fountain. So the whole issue of segregation and the whole issue of the Civil Rights Movement is all within the box of White culture and White supremacy. We should not still be fighting for what they have. We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction....

From a conversation with Marcos Aguilar, the founder and principal of La Academia Semillas del Pueblo.