Skyy Fisher, the Compton Unified School District (CUSD) Boardmember whose radio show rant went viral after severe signs of homophobia and a lack of public regard, issued a statement in response to the Compton chapter of the NAACP’s efforts to recall him from his seat on the Compton Unified School District board.

“The real embarrassment and shame is that on the eve of the start of another school year, in a district where only approximately 67 percent of high school students make it to June and graduate, you would think that the nation’s oldest civil rights organization would be focusing their efforts on the children of the Compton Unified School District and not villainizing me for a mistake that I have profusely apologized for,” the statement began.

Intriguingly, Fisher opted to veer conversation away from his strangely perturbing deride to direct focus on the district’s academic and delinquency issue—and what many consider a rhetorical trope.

“Like our neighboring school districts,” he continued, “Compton is struggling to provide the type of educat[ion] that will prepare our young men and women to compete in the future job market. That’s where all of our focus should be.

“Our students are testing below grade level on the California Standards Test in English, mathematics, and science. If the Compton NAACP wants to really help the students of the Compton, offering tutoring and mentoring services would go a lot further in helping pave the way for future leaders of Compton than engaging in petty squabbles.”

However, many rights advocation groups do not consider this “squabble” to be petty—including L.A. Black Gay Pride initially (the president of the organization, Paul Scott, has altered his opinion according to Fisher’s representatives), the CTA/CEA Union, and CUSD employees, students and community members, all of whom have participated in rallies against Fisher’s continuance at CUSD.

In an even stranger use of rhetoric, he speaks for the people of Compton claiming they “are huge supporters of second chances and I believe that my apology has been accepted and my actions since then have done the talking for me.

“If the people of Compton no longer wish me to represent them on the school board, they have every right to vote me out of office when my term expires. Given Compton’s financial troubles, I don’t know why the NAACP would want to push a special election that would further tax the district and take money away from our most vulnerable—the students.”

Of course, Fisher misses a larger point here brought about by NAACP: the people of Compton, should NAACP gather the 10,000 signatures needed, have the right to recall him from office before his term expires—and this where he seems to misunderstand NAACP’s mission in recalling him, where he was called a “disgrace to the city” by its president, Paulette Simpson Gibson.

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NOTE: It was originally reported that L.A. Gay Pride supported the resignation of Mr. Fisher; however, according to Fisher’s representatives, the organization’s president, Paul Scott, recanted that position within 24 hours following the rally they held on May 8.