Hermosa Beach Schools superintendent’s rap recitation puts political correctness to test
by Dan Blackburn The law made him do it, said Jason Johnson, superintendent of the Hermosa Beach City School District, reflecting on his live reading during a board meeting last Wednesday of a rapper’s obscenity-laden lyrics into the public record. And he articulated the words of Carli B’s wildly-offensive “WAP” offering with nary a nuanced facial expression. The incident found its origins in an ongoing community dispute regarding the consideration of incorporating so-called “equity and inclusion” instruction into the district’s curriculum. It’s an issue sharply divided by polarized political positions. Matt McCool, the letter’s author, said he was “mocking the identity politics” he accuses the district of adopting, and criticizing what he views as “an anti-white indoctrination curriculum.” Because of a ruling by the district’s lawyer, Aaron O’Donnell, that the letter needed to be read aloud, verbatim, Johnson did just that. O’Donnell, of the Cerritos firm of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo, said the matter was “not discretionary.” Public comment presentation “is obligatory and cannot be censored,” O’Donnell told Easy Reader. Johnson said McCool “wrote the letter — as…
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