Author and Chapel Hill resident Timothy Tyson along with North Carolina NAACP head Rev. William Barber and two others were arrested after a sit-in protest at a Wake County board of education meeting Tuesday in Raleigh.
Tyson told the Citizen he is concerned by the boards recent actions saying their policies could reverse years of efforts following the end of segregated schools.
“I was raised in a Christian tradition where love is something you do, not just something you feel. The conservative anti-diversity coalition on the school board is acting in a way that is destructive to our public schools,†Tyson said… “We’ve seen this type of politics for a long time, and we’re not going to sit idly by and let a coalition of the cynical and self-serving and misguided destroy the public schools in North Carolina and all we’ve accomplished here.