Activist: Jefferson County school board member's social media posts racist

[Judi Lynn]

Updated Jun 12; Posted Jun 12
By Trisha Powell Crain [e-mail]



Birmingham activist Carlos Chaverst confronts Jefferson County of Education member
Donna Pike during the June 12, 2018, board committee meeting in Birmingham, Ala.
(Trisha Crain | [e-mail])

Jefferson County School Board member Donna Pike is under fire for what a local activist is calling racist social media posts. 

Pike denies the claim.

At Tuesday's board meeting, Birmingham activist Carlos Chaverst called Pike, a Republican from Irondale, out for a post she shared on Facebook on June 1 with an image of former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett but with the words "No! I'm not black! I'm Valerie Varret (sic) and I'm a Muslim, born in Iran!" 

Chaverst showed a packed conference room images of not only that post, but others showing Pike supported Roseanne Barr, whose show was recently canceled by ABC after Barr referred to Jarrett as an "ape" on Twitter.

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Best wishes to Carlos Chaverst.

[Glorfindel]

1. Best wishes, indeed. We need more brave young people like Mr. Chaverst

who are willing to tell truth to power, even when the "power" is a bit of insignificant slime like this school board member.

[lunasun]

2. Imagine the school curriculum she has influence to decide on

[Igel]

3. Probably not so much.

Those things are decided by the state, not a local school board.

After that it's almost always some instructional officer who helps produce a scope and sequence outlining the order the topics will be presented in and the time allotted for each topic, which automatically dictates depth. IOs are usually responsible for local standardized tests. I've never even heard of a school board worrying about the details of what's happening in the classroom, and most school administrators would grit their teeth and pretty much ignore that kind of meddling.