A Long Island lawmaker likened the spread of charter schools to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic in a bizarre rant at an NAACP-sponsored event, The Post has learned.
State Assemblyman Phil Ramos went off during his virtual testimony at the education forum on Jan. 24.
“I am in vehement opposition to charter schools. From what I’ve seen, it’s just another system created that imposes a discriminatory system on our people,” Ramos griped.
“Basically, for the second half of the 1900s, racism — in your face racism, burning crosses — kind of for the most part went undercover and modern-day racism is conducted with a calculator. A calculator that
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