Should a White Supremacist Be Able to Serve on the School Board?
Should a White Supremacist Be Able to Serve on the School Board? Sunday August 8, 2010#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) A candidate running for school board in Rialto, Calif., is sparking controversy because of his past–he once served as president of the Aryan Nations. Still a member of the white supremacist group today, Dan Schruender filed papers on Aug. 2 to run for an open school board seat in Rialto, a city of about 93,000 located 53 miles east of Los Angeles. And where did Schruender announce his candidacy for school board? A white supremacist blog. Although Schruender reportedly admits to passing out invitations to honor Adolf Hitler’s birthday and racist fliers around Rialto, a community with a school district that’s 75% Latino and 15% black, he says that he won’t let his racial beliefs affect school board decisions. He simply wants to turn around a curriculu