Aguilar Craps All Over Civil Rights Movement

He's already got problems with members of the press being beaten up outside his school, but now Academia Semillas del Pueblo principal Marcos Aguilar is disrespecting the work of folks like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall and the entire legacy of the civil rights movement.

In an interview with the website, Teaching to Change LA, Aguilar was asked to reflect on the legendary Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, which integrated schools in America. Here are Aguilar's remarks:

If Brown 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. And so it isn’t about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it’s about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier.