Over the weekend, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board decided to change the name of a local school dedicated to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee after Baton Rouge activist Gary Chambers Jr. gave an impassioned speech that was caught on camera.
At a school board meeting on Thursday, Chambers wasted no time in criticizing the board for ignoring the concerns of the local community, saying Republican school board member Connie Bernard was shopping online during the meeting.
"You can look at all of the streets around Lee High School are named after Confederate generals ... when you go to a local school board meeting, what you saw in that video is really a reflection of what Black America is dealing with as it relates to white America," he said on Monday.
“You have Black folks speaking up passionately about what they feel, while you have a school board member, a representative of the people, a Republican, who’s sitting there scrolling on the internet while people are expressing their concerns,” Chambers told the show's hosts.
Her comments prompted Chambers to reiterate during his MSNBC interview that "until Connie Bernard is off the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, we still have work to do.”
