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Editorial - Race Hustling on the U-46 School Board


Part I


  U-46 Trustee Traci O’Neal Ellis is a hateful, divisive racist.
  We think it best to be straightforward from the start, especially for our readers who have yet to hear about Ellis’s latest toxic outbursts. On Sunday, Sept. 24, Ellis posted her opinion of the American flag on Facebook: “The flag means nothing more than toilet paper to me.” After learning of the post from a concerned constituent, fellow Trustee Jeanette Ward shared her colleague’s post on her own Facebook page. From there, the controversy went viral.
  Two days later, Ellis doubled down with an 842-word diatribe posted on her other Facebook page—this time identifying herself as: Traci O’Neal Ellis, U-46 School Board Member (on her other page she calls herself Traci D. Ellis). Peppered throughout her Facebook rantings—and her tenure on the school board—are lies, rage, delusion, confusion, and her specialties: racism and hypocrisy.
  Let’s begin with some of the lies and confusion, as they are the foundation upon which Ellis builds her ugly edifice of hate. In defense of her first post, Ellis offers this condescending assessment of any parents, students, teachers and taxpayers of U-46 (especially the white ones) who are upset with her: “To conflate the protest happening in the NFL with disrespect for the flag is disingenuous at its best and downright ignorant at its worst. Our protests have nothing to do with the flag.” Her original post, however, included a photo of Colin Kaepernick, the Father of Our Kneetion, and he is unambiguous on the subject. Kaepernick said: “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people.” He also said: “The flag is just a piece of cloth.” Well, at least that’s a notch above toilet paper. (This, by the way, is the same Kaepernick who just donated $25,000 to a racial hate group named after a convicted cop killer who escaped from prison and has enjoyed the fugitive protection of the Castros in Cuba for the last 40 years.)
  But we need not take Kaepernick’s word for what the protest is all about: Ellis broadcasts her dishonesty a moment later in the very same post. Time and time again during her board tenure, Ellis has revealed her egomania by her ongoing complaint that Trustee Jeanette Ward is her nemesis, bent on her destruction. At the very opening of her post, she imagines that Ward’s motivation is to embarrass her, rather than a fellow trustee’s genuine concern. From that point of departure, Ellis accused Ward of having “the unmitigated gall to try to take me to task when I express MY OPINION on the flag” (emphasis original). On the flag? Wait a minute, Traci. You just wrote that we were “disingenuous” and “downright ignorant” to assume your NFL post was about the flag. One of the dangers of self-righteousness and blinding rage, Trustee Ellis, is that they can lead to a loss of self-awareness…and chronic, casual deceit.
  Before we wrap things up until next week’s paper, lets look at one more example of Ellis’s pernicious dishonesty. During her lengthy condemnation of the United States, Ellis asserts that racial “suffering and atrocities have been neatly and conveniently left out of our history books” and goes on to ask of the Civil Rights Movement, “how many black folks lost their lives demanding equal rights.” Let’s take her second claim first. The Civil Right Memorial in Montgomery Alabama memorializes the lives lost from 1954 to 1968, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists them on its webpage. We can only assume that Ellis puts great stock in the SPLC, considering that it has devolved into a vicious, racist hate group. The memorial’s tally is 38 dead; which we agree is 38 more than acceptable. Interestingly, though, nine of those martyrs are white. Yes, black and white fought side-by-side for civil rights. But, it does not serve Ellis’s purpose of stoking racial animosity to recognize such statistics in her sweeping condemnations of America. For the same reason, Ellis would never mention that 360,000 union soldiers died to end slavery. No, Ellis only sees all blacks as victims and all whites as evil oppressors. We are not people to her. We are colors.
  As for her first claim, Ellis might benefit from actually reading the history books used in our classrooms, rather than inventing a racial conspiracy: She quickly would be disabused of her paranoid fantasy about what has been “neatly and conveniently left out of our history books.” Half of the chapters in the AP history textbook, for example, discuss colonialism, slavery, or civil rights, and there is even a section at the end titled “African-American Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” Pick up any history book in our public schools: They are obsessed with race, America’s failings, and identity politics of all variety. Race hustlers like Ellis won the textbook battle long ago; so, perhaps she should redirect her energy toward one of the resistance movements de jour, such as pulling down statues in and around Elgin or renaming U-46’s Washington Elementary School.
  Over the next few weeks, we will take a closer look at a history other than America’s—Ellis’ history. Hers is shot through with inflammatory and very troubling comments on race. We’ll also take a look at her questionable professional ethics as a school board trustee and demonstrate that when she talks about white privilege, she knows a thing or two about it, only there’s nothing white about it.

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