Once you see last night's demonstrations outside the Union High School Board meeting, which discussed the controversy swirling around comments made by UHS special education teacher Viki Knox, it's impossible not to notice the racial component.
Anti-Viki Knox protesters apparently primarily white - including Garden State Equality Chair Steven Goldstein, and Human Rights Campaign National Field Director Marty Rouse (who brought a petition signed by 75,000 HRC members). The only student on camera confirming that Knox's opinions made their way into a classroom, a Junior named Samantha, did not witness Knox doing so herself, instead quotes an unnamed fellow student as saying - word for word - what Knox wrote on facebook.
Pro-Knox forces apparently racially mixed, largely black - including a Pastor and father of a student, and a sophomore named William who says he 'loves' Knox and sees her as a 'spiritual mother'.
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