If you missed it, you can watch it on Channel 3.
I don't know Dr. Perry's political identification and don't know if he even considers himself a conservative, but his message was a message that conservatives could applaud. Speaking to an audience of mostly African-Americans, I am sure his message is one that many in the audience found challenging to accept and a message they seldom hear. As a white guy, I felt somewhat embarrassed. I am glad I was there and immensely enjoyed his speech, but I felt somewhat like an outsider watching another family's family argument.
Points he made and gems from his speech were these:
- Nashville has terrible schools.
- The day they put a metal detector in the school, it is no longer a school.
- School choice is essential.
- Schools are often places where the grown people work rather than places were children learn.
- A bad teacher is more dangerous is than a drug dealer.
- The reason we like the status quo is because it benefits the adults.
- The new racism is telling you that the reason we have under performing schools is because we have a large number of Black children in the school.
- Don't think because a Black person is running a school, it is a better school.
- I do not believe a child in Nashville is any less bright than a child anywhere else in America.
- Why should you have to go to a terrible school just because it is close to your house. You wouldn't have to go to a terrible hospital because it is close to your house.
- Martin Luther King did not fight for you to go to a Black school, he fought for you to go to a good school.
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