#5 A Setback

In the table topic section of the Toastmasters' meeting last week,I addressed a situation in public school up in Virginia, and ran into a constriction of my throat at about 3 minutes of speaking. I was speaking of race-baiting toward whites by the school administration at a graduation ceremony. The staff had a black girl run up and down the aisles in the audience while two white boys pursued her. This was a reenactment of fugitive slaves being hunted down during slavery. My children went to this school, and there was tremendous racial tension there. I wonder why with such a helpful school staff! Peter Nickerson MS, MSW at 352-359-0850.