Critical Race Theory Actions and Reactions

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CRT Teacher: CRT Isn’t Taught In Schools


“Keziah Ridgeway says she’s the only teacher she knows in Philadelphia who teaches critical race theory in public high school,” says the written version of a video report from CNN reporter Elle Reeve.

Ridgeway, the CRT teacher, then says that CRT is not being taught in public education — and that, if it is, that’s a good thing.

She tells the camera that “Critical Race Theory is not being taught in schools. It is a theory. It is a lens by which to view history and the way that law and race kind of overlaps [sic] and connects in society.”

Ridgeway then backs down. “Can it influence the way that some teachers teach? Uh, yeah, but that’s a good thing, right? Because race and racism is [sic] literally the building blocks of this country.”

Ridgeway shows CNN the books she uses in her class, including “Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement” — and the late socialist Howard Zinn’s error-rich “A People’s History of the United States.”

“I’m creating little free thinkers and future politicians, and lawyers, and teachers, and changemakers,” says Ridgeway. “I’m teaching children to question America. And that’s what makes a good patriot.”

 

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BLM Chapter Declares U.S. Flag Hate Symbol; Denounces Those Who Fly It As Unsafe, Racist, Stupid


“When we Black Americans see this flag we know the person flying it is not safe to be around,” the post read. “When we see this flag we know the person flying it is a racist. When we see this flag we know that the person flying it lives in a different America than we do. When we see this flag, we question your intelligence. We know to avoid you. It is a symbol of hatred.”

The chapter went on to taunt those who found the post offensive, commenting, “Welcome racists. We know you are big mad about the racist flag post. You will not be heard here. You will be blocked and your comments will be deleted. We will be donating $1 to AOC’s election campaign for every racist that we block. Thank you for contributing to the re-election of AOC. We will jot down your names and attribute each donation to you. Comment below to help her once again head to Washington.”

BLM Utah went on to post several more lengthy comments insulting those who disapproved, accusing them of being triggered Karens who don’t care about black lives. They also promised to destroy the systems that allegedly perpetuate racism.

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“Search deep within yourself and ask yourself why you are so triggered when people talk about racism,” they wrote in part. “You are triggered because it makes you uncomfortable to know that you are complicit. You don’t want to hear about it, you just want to continue to perpetuate it without consequences. We do not have to remain silent about it. We will not bow down to you. We will not beg you to stop being racist. We will proactively destroy the systems that continue to give you the power to marginalize people of color. Period.”

“We will not leave a country that our ancestors built because your ancestors were too lazy to do their own work,” BLM Utah also wrote. “Don’t tell us to go back to Africa. You can go directly back to Europe because you are on stolen land.”

 

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BLM Chapter Declares U.S. Flag Hate Symbol; Denounces Those Who Fly It As Unsafe, Racist, Stupid


“When we Black Americans see this flag we know the person flying it is not safe to be around,” the post read. “When we see this flag we know the person flying it is a racist. When we see this flag we know that the person flying it lives in a different America than we do. When we see this flag, we question your intelligence. We know to avoid you. It is a symbol of hatred.”

The chapter went on to taunt those who found the post offensive, commenting, “Welcome racists. We know you are big mad about the racist flag post. You will not be heard here. You will be blocked and your comments will be deleted. We will be donating $1 to AOC’s election campaign for every racist that we block. Thank you for contributing to the re-election of AOC. We will jot down your names and attribute each donation to you. Comment below to help her once again head to Washington.”

BLM Utah went on to post several more lengthy comments insulting those who disapproved, accusing them of being triggered Karens who don’t care about black lives. They also promised to destroy the systems that allegedly perpetuate racism.

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“Search deep within yourself and ask yourself why you are so triggered when people talk about racism,” they wrote in part. “You are triggered because it makes you uncomfortable to know that you are complicit. You don’t want to hear about it, you just want to continue to perpetuate it without consequences. We do not have to remain silent about it. We will not bow down to you. We will not beg you to stop being racist. We will proactively destroy the systems that continue to give you the power to marginalize people of color. Period.”

“We will not leave a country that our ancestors built because your ancestors were too lazy to do their own work,” BLM Utah also wrote. “Don’t tell us to go back to Africa. You can go directly back to Europe because you are on stolen land.”

Another person who believes everyone of his race thinks the same way he does.
I have black people in my American Legion Post who love the flag, fought for the flag, and are true patriots.

To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America;

To maintain law and order;

To foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism;

To preserve the memories and incidents of our associations in all wars;

To inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation;

To combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses;

To make right the master of might;

To promote peace and goodwill on earth;

To safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy;

To consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.

 

[GURPS]

At least 25 public schools, districts pushing kids' book featuring 'Whiteness' contract with devil: report


$55K-a-year Corlears elementary school in Manhattan is among dozens in the US teaching children from book featuring 'whiteness' contract with the devil

• The book, Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham, features a demonic-looking figure that offers a 'whiteness contract'
• The contract grants 'stolen land and riches' to anyone who signs it, but it will 'mess endlessly' with the lives of loved ones and all people of color
• Corlears School in Manhattan, which charges $55,000 a year tuition for pre-K to fifth grade students, has recommended the book for children over 8 years old
• Anti-critical race theory activist Chris Rufo identified 31 public school districts or individual schools that promote the book in some fashion
• The controversial book is the subject of a lawsuit against a school in Illinois

 

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[GURPS]

Desperate Joy Reid Shows the Tide Turning Against CRT


This is ugly stuff, equating criticism of CRT with paranoid conspiracy outfits or fringe racist groups.
But it is predictable because the Progressive Left’s case is so weak.
Propaganda in the USSR was similarly predictable.
Each year’s harvest was a record-breaking bounty over the previous year’s record-breaking bounty, even though food never got any easier to obtain.
Any dissenter was treasonous, an enemy of the state, or even institutionalized as crazy.
Every speech by the General Secretary of the Communist Party (aka, the Soviet strongman dictator) was worthy of Cicero. His every scribble put Virgil to shame. His every decision would have awed Justinian.
(Sorry for all the references to ancient Rome, but Insanity Wrap has been on a Roman history kick lately.)
Governments and leaders confident in their systems don’t make such bold and easily refuted claims.
But the purpose of propaganda in an authoritarian state isn’t actually to propagandize the population: It’s to demoralize them.
Everybody reads and hears the same fake news. Everyone knows that it’s fake. But no one can speak up for fear that it is they alone who knows that all the news is fake.
If CRT is really so benign — if you can even get a Progressive to admit that it exists at all — then why do Party line “news” outlets like NBC resort to such Sovietesque attempts to discredit anyone speaking out against it?
You know the reason, gentle reader: Propaganda in the USSA is meant to demoralize would-be dissenters.
But it isn’t working.
From local school boards to state government across the country, parents and liberty-loving leaders are fighting back.
And they’re fighting effectively, too, judging by the over-the-top, Soviet-like response from the Democrat-Media Complex.
Keep it up.

 

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[Hijinx]

Insanity has ruled this country since Jan. 20.

 

[GURPS]

School Board Approves Termination Charges Against TN Teacher Who Made Students Read Ta-Nehisi Coates But Refused To Present Opposing Viewpoint


District officials pointed to two separate incidents that they said violated the Tennessee Teacher Code of Ethics, including denying students access to varying points of view and intentionally exposing them to embarrassment or disparagement.

Hawn, who taught “Contemporary Issues” and coached baseball at Sullivan Central High School, received a detailed letter of reprimand in February after assigning students to read an opinion article by Ta-Nehisi Coates titled, “The First White President.” According to the letter, a parent had complained, citing the article’s “somewhat angry, and hateful opinion towards President Trump” which they said contained “words” that should not be “introduced to our children by a high school teacher.”

The article claimed Donald Trump would not have been elected president if he was not Caucasian. It included words derived from “cuckold,” a term Coates said, “is specifically meant to debase by fear and fantasy – the target is so weak that he would submit to the humiliation of having his white wife lie with black men.” Coates also used the word “whore,” and wrote “n*” eight times, including six times in a single paragraph.

 

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School Board Approves Termination Charges Against TN Teacher Who Made Students Read Ta-Nehisi Coates But Refused To Present Opposing Viewpoint
...“words” that should not be “introduced to our children by a high school teacher.”

... words derived from “cuckold,” a term Coates said, “is specifically meant to debase by fear and fantasy – the target is so weak that he would submit to the humiliation of having his white wife lie with black men.” Coates also used the word “whore,” and wrote “n*” eight times, including six times in a single paragraph.

Speaking strictly about your high school student, if this is their 'introduction' to these words, then there's something wrong with your high school student!



But I think they were using 'introduction' in a different sense.

 

[Hijinx]

The kid next door is in the first grade and they called his parents about his language.
They asked him where he learned such words, and he said from Grandpop.

The little pimp.

 

[PrchJrkr]

The kid next door is in the first grade and they called his parents about his language.
They asked him where he learned such words, and he said from Grandpop.

The little pimp.

My kids always knew them and that they weren't to be used in public.

 

[GURPS]

‘LITERALLY racist’ : Liz Wheeler wipes the FLOOR with Marc Lamont Hill for his comments on ‘all white people being racist’ (watch)

 

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Chatty Leftist Finally Admits Critical Race Theory's Roots in Marxism








American parents owe many thanks to Abramson for the admission that Marxism is being openly taught in American schools — he stresses GRADUATE schools and ACADEMIC THEORY, but where does he think teachers emerge from? Now that the NEA has pulled the covers back, we know that CRT is, indeed, being thrown at young American schoolchildren; not as theory, but as an instructional method for examining the world. A communist lens through which to view — well, everything. Admitting the problem is the first step to addressing it.

 

[Gilligan]

And there's this arse clown...

https://notthebee.com/article/ibram-x-kendi-says-there-is-no-debate-about-critical-race-theory

 

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Ibram Kendi Dismisses Critical Race Theory Concerns as 'a Fictional Monster'



Kendi accuses Republicans of dancing from issue to issue in a rush to demonize black people. “First, Republicans pointed to Black Lives Matter demonstrators. Three days after George Floyd’s murder last year, President Donald Trump recast the largely peaceful demonstrators as violent and dishonorable ‘THUGS,'” Kendi notes.

Of course, he cannily omits any mention of the destruction of black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments amid these “largely peaceful” demonstrations. He also omits any mention of the rioters repeating claims of “systemic racism” that trace back to CRT and his own “anti-racism.”
Kendi then notes that Republicans and Trump turned to “cancel culture,” as if the idea first struck the Right in 2020 — and hadn’t been a consistent theme for years. Kendi then faults the GOP for attacking “the 1619 Project and American history,” as if the 1619 Project had not twisted American history out of recognition along the lines of CRT — so badly that The New York Times issued embarrassing corrections and stealth edits, leading scholars to demand the revocation of the Pulitzer Prize.

Kendi suggests that there is no connection between the Right’s various “fictional monsters,” but vandals in Portland spray-painted “1619” on a statue of George Washington they topped in 2020. When Claremont’s Charles Kesler wrote in The New York Post, “Call them the 1619 riots,” Hannah-Jones responded (in a since-deleted tweet) that “it would be an honor” to claim responsibility for the destructive riots.

While opposition to CRT is multiracial — bringing black, Hispanic, Asian, and white parents together — Kendi compares opposition to CRT in schools to segregation. “In the 1950s and ’60s, the conservators of racism organized to keep Black kids out of all-white schools. Today, they are trying to get critical race theory out of American schools,” he writes.

Kendi is utterly wrong to suggest that the grassroots opposition to CRT is somehow misled about what critical race theory actually is. Parents know what it is — and black and Asian moms and dads are just as irate about this neo-racism as white parents are.

Yet Kendi is fighting hard to make sure that “There is no debate over critical race theory.” He wants the cultural elites to ignore the issue and to dismiss irate parents as the ignorant hoi polloi. The National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in America, pledged that it will “fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric.” Kendi and his allies already have entrenched CRT in many institutions — so they are trying to silence their opponents by demonizing them.

 

[Hijinx]

What is even more crazy is that there are white people who would teach this bullsht.

 

[Smokey1]

What is even more crazy is that there are white people who would teach this bullsht.

Somehow the left has succeeded in getting many of their white constituents to hate themselves for historical wrongs that they had nothing to do with. Now they insist that all white people carry this guilt or they are racist. Sorry but I would rather be considered racist than to hate what I am and work against my best interests.

 

[Hijinx]

Somehow the left has succeeded in getting many of their white constituents to hate themselves for historical wrongs that they had nothing to do with. Now they insist that all white people carry this guilt or they are racist. Sorry but I would rather be considered racist than to hate what I am and work against my best interests.

Being called a racist doesn't bother me. I know what my story is and I respect anyone who respects me no matter what race creed of even sexual problems they may have. I mean I may think they have mental problems , but I still treat them with respect and can still like them

 

[GURPS]

Parents In Conservative Virginia County Outraged To Learn CRT Pushed On Their Children


“Byerly had requested information on school spending from the previous year but had yet to receive an itemized account of curriculum purchases. Byerly also shared a concerning list of companies and organizations funded by PCPS that included CRT and Black Lives Matter proponents such as the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium. In contrast, Byerly also noted a recently mandated African American history class would be a positive addition to county schools,” The Federalist reported. “Byerly’s address led to a cascade of community responses, the majority from parents who were shocked and frustrated by the school board’s involvement in divisive training and curriculum counter to American values.”

Viki Hurt, a former teacher and member of No Left Turn, a grassroots education group, told the outlet that, contrary to what proponents of CRT and their media supporters claim, opposing CRT is not about opposing the teaching of America’s history.

“We want all of history to be taught, but we also don’t want our children to pay for the sins of past generations,” Hurt said.