When Stupidity Gives Way to Evil

Nina Brooke, who may be the worst writer at a newspaper full of disgraces to the profession, plays the race card:

Race plays a factor in some people’s objections to Mr. Witt. He is African-American. District 5 and Irmo High remain majority white. But the percentage growth in black students is high. That has not been universally accepted in an area that remains majority white while sitting alongside more diverse areas. It is not fair to blame Mr. Witt for changing demographics or to assume the changes mean something negative about Irmo High. Nonetheless, outdated notions persist.

...Which brings us to the challenges for District 5. The district’s only other African-American principal, Harbison West Elementary’s Secaida Howell, has also resigned. The district cannot allow its principals’ ranks to be monochromatic....

The diversity issue goes further, into the way that all children are taught at school. District 5 has not yet shown it can accept a changing student body and continue to succeed. The next few years will present a test of that ability.

In all these passages, Ms. Brooke hints at the charge of racism without forthrightly making allegations. Of course Brooke lacks even the flimsiest evidence to support her phantom charges. Just some circumstantial hokum and bean-counting. When she says, for example, that "the percentage of growth in black student population is high [and that] has not been universally accepted," does she have anything to back that up? Is there a statistic, a fact, a quote, or an anecdote that justifies her claim? Anything?

No, for Nina Brooke and other race hucksters, the mere hint of an allegation is enough. Irresponsible demagogues like Brooke use the state's painful past to ensure that racial wounds are constantly picked at—so that they fester and never heal properly. And for what? To score a few petty, political points or to make your fast-approaching deadline?

Nina Brooke, how do you sleep at night?

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