It's amazing how skin color does seem to matter sometimes...
Of course it matters you idiots, you live in a racist society. And while a white can teach, he will not have had anything like the same experience as a minority so it's going to be interesting because the kids will know, first hand, what he can only imagine.
While he may not have the same experience as a minority, he may have experiences WITH people of various backgrounds, more varied than just one, his own.
So, say they hire a nice, black for this position. He has gone to a black church and raised in a black community and that is precisely what he knows.
When a white educated scholar who has studied different cultures and has taken the opportunity to live in various countries to learn about these cultures will not be even given the opportunity to interview for the position. But the one who knows of just one culture, his own, will be possibly given the job because of his color.
What is wrong with that picture? Small minded people with small minded ideas are bigots, ya know. Now just what would that person teach, with his lack of knowledge and experience?