User talk:Lkspears

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. I've spent some time looking over your comments about the Trinity Christian Academy article, and combed through newspapers.com looking for secondary, independent, reliable sources to expand the article. I did come up with a baseball championship, which I added to the article, but pretty much everything else I found was related to the creation of the school, and how that was done so that White parents could send their kids to a school where they wouldn't be bothered by being around Black kids, neither at school nor on the bus. Newspapers.com is sometimes a hit-or-miss thing, as they certainly don't have all the info. So anyway, the only areas that make this school notable are its history of bigotry against Blacks, and the more recent discrimination against homosexual students. In my opinion, the article should be deleted.

Nevertheless, the school was founded to perpetuate segregation, and currently has 0.7% Black students in an area that is 16% Black. I've seen your comments about how the school now admits a healthy percentage of Asians - I'm not sure how limiting bigotry to Blacks but not Asians is such a wonderful thing. It reminds me of Nigel Powers statement, "There's only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch". It saddens me to read your school's website and it's fairytale history of the schools founding that states "Founded on the purpose of educating and developing the whole person for the glory of God, we believe there’s more for us to do than simply teach and ultimately, there’s more for our children to do than simply learn" and "TCA was started by a small group of parents who were committed to building a school with a strong curriculum within a framework of traditional Christian values". It implies that the "glory of God" is to keep Black people from getting uppity and think they are good enough humans to attend the same school or ride the same buses as White kids, and that "traditional Christian values" include providing rich White and Asian kids an education free from the influence of poor black kids. I don't believe either to be true, and am inexorably drawn to Matthew 25:45-46. When we're talking about education in the United States in 1970 and today, it is obvious to me that when Jesus was speaking about "the least of these", he was talking about the students that were then and now are excluded from an education at TCA. Jacona (talk) 13:59, 25 January 2023 (UTC)