Friday, March 29, 2024

Civil Rights Leaders File Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against Robert E. Lee School in Long Beach

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

*Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President and Hutchinson Report Host Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other civil rights leaders on Monday, July 13 will file a formal complaint with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights asking for the Dept. to review the continued use of the name Robert E. Lee on a Long Beach, California Elementary School.

The complaint will be filed based on provisions in federal law that allow for community stakeholders to file discrimination complaints on the basis of race and color in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance from the Department of Education. The civil rights leaders will charge that the use of the name of Robert E. Lee, a traitor to the US Constitution and an upholder of the institution of slavery, on a public school is an open endorsement of racially exclusionary policies on a school with a majority minority student body.

“The official complaint that will call on the Department of Education to review the continued use of the name Robert E. Lee on a public school that receives federal funding is unprecedented,” says Hutchinson, “It will both broaden the scope of the Education Department’s civil rights review to determine whether schools that use names associated with racial bigotry and exclusion which is the case with Robert E. Lee school in Long Beach violate provisions that strictly prohibit the promotion of racial bias in education.”

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