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“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
No, that’s not Alabama. It’s New York whose Department of Education is defying the Trump administration’s orders to end its racist DEI programs or lose federal funding.
Lester W. Young, Jr., the Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, reached deep into his classical body of learning and fired back by quoting murdered rapper Notorious B.I.G., accused of being involved in Tupac Shakur’s murder, “If you don’t know, well, now you know.”
Considering that less than half of New York City elementary school students score as being able to read proficiently under the city’s misleading ‘New York City Reads’, that’s not really true. “I mean, we have barely cracked 50% proficiency in E.L.A.,” the Deputy Chancellor admitted.
Among state fourth graders reading proficiency is at 30% showing majority childhood illiteracy.
“We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion,’” Daniel Morton-Bentley, the deputy state Department of Education commissioner, shot back in an official letter to the Trump administration. “but there are no federal or State laws prohibiting the principles of DEI.”
There are multiple such laws against teaching and practicing racism in schools. Like Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As ‘Biggie’ said, “If you don’t know, well, now you know.”
A Freedom Center Investigates review found that the state’s Department of Education’s DEI booklet is packed with racially discriminatory materials like the claim that “for people of color, internalized oppression can involve believing in negative messages about oneself or one’s racial group. For Whites, internalized privilege can involve feeling a sense of superiority and entitlement or holding negative beliefs about people of color.”
White people can only be privileged. Only minorities are oppressed. What message does that send to white students and teachers trapped in a systematically racist school system?
The booklet even links to an article about students taking part in a “weekly ‘deconstructing whiteness’ program” and a poster asking “why do I have to feel guilty about being white?”
The NY Dept of Ed’s DEI program features the Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education Implementation Roadmap which at Phase III demands “tough conversations” and “reflecting on yourself, your role, and implicit bias”. What do those “tough conversations” look like?
The CRSE program recommends ‘‘Cultural Competence Now: 56 Exercises to Help Educators Understand and Challenge Bias, Racism, and Privilege’, a book by a city teacher, that has an exercise headlined “White Fatigue” and includes racist terms such as “White people fatigue syndrome” and “White fragility”.
Exercise 11 of the handout from ‘Cultural Competence Now: 56 Exercises to Help Educators Understand and Challenge Bias, Racism, and Privilege shows a picture of 8 contemporary people and asks participants to categorize them as either “Free White People (does not include Irish, Jewish or Italian)”, “All Other Free White People” and “Slaves”.
There’s no answer key as to whether the Japanese lady is supposed to be white or a slave.
Another exercise proposes having students “write down everything they know to be true about white people. On the other sheet, ask them to write down everything they know to be true about Black people”. (The racially discriminatory capitalization comes from the original text.)
One exercise urges teachers to “discuss the five tenets of critical race theory.” while another
warns teachers against “being colorblind toward your students”.
This seems to be exactly the kind of thing the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act was there to stop. But rather than banning discrimination, New York State’s Department of Education enforces it.
New York State has certified that it’s in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. It’s clearly not. Teacher training materials with exercises labeling some people as “slaves” or “free white people (does not include Irish, Jewish or Italian)”, telling students to write down things about white people and black people, and using derogatory terms toward white people is so in violation of Title VI, that New York schools might as well start segregating water fountains.
Craig Trainor, President Trump’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education, has warned that New York State’s racist DEI programs are illegal, and will lead to a cutoff of federal funding. And New York’s response is to go on doubling down on DEI racism.
The inherent problem with the state’s Department of Education is that its mission isn’t education, as the inability of elementary and middle schoolers to read at grade level shows: it’s activism.
The DEI program’s stated endgame is to have “students learn about power and privilege in the context of various communities and are empowered as agents of positive social change…to redress historical and contemporary oppression.”
It doesn’t matter if they can’t read, as long as they come away believing that minorities are victims, white people are privileged oppressors, and riot in the streets for leftist causes.
New York’s children may not be able to read, but instead four year olds are being forced to participate in an exercise to ‘degender toys’ by designing a toy store that has “no gender stereotypes” and “no toy guns or violent video games” and presumably no boys allowed.
The mission of the Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education Implementation Roadmap is to create “sociopolitically conscious” children who “identify and critically examine both historical and contemporary power structures” and “recognize that personal, cultural, and institutionalized discrimination creates and sustains privileges for some while creating and sustaining disadvantage for others”. Or more simply leftists who can ‘degender’ toys, but can’t count.
And it’s working.
New York City has become a political monoculture where radical politics and riots are the norm.
New York’s Democrat hierarchy benefits from this miserable state of affairs while the children suffer. That is why the Trump administration is cracking down on abusive DEI indoctrination systems like these. And New York’s ‘George Wallaces’ insist that they will never stop the hate.
Not unless they’re held accountable.
And to the New York Department of Education and its leaders who deny that their DEI is racist, we have one message. “If you don’t know, well, now you know.” And now everyone knows.
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This has been an article from the Freedom Center Investigates ‘Hate in School’ project in which the David Horowitz Freedom Center investigates and exposes how schools and colleges are secretly pushing extremism, indoctrination and hate on America’s students.
The most despicable National divisions going on are the “Social” ones! The WORST is the destructive “Progressive Left” infatuation over “Race and Slavery”; “Race and Slavery”! That’s all we ever hear. “Racial Equity”. The purest example of socialist nonsense. Purest “dream” of the dividers. How do you tell someone they are a slave? By bringing up slavery every day of the week, and twice on Sunday. How do you tell someone they are inferior? By acting like they are inferior, giving them special dispensations and permissions, and then, you get the results you want, ἔθνος ἐπὶ ἔθνος!
The U.S. Govt., under Lincoln, was, and correct me if I’m wrong, almost singularly responsible for the emancipation of slaves, aided and abetted by such expressive tools of diplomacy as the “20th Maine”, who, at Gettysburg, spilt their blood with such wild abandon for the privilege! The Left doesn’t see a “Black” skinned American as a person, they see him as an “escaped slave”, to be returned to the largest “Plantation” on Earth, the Democrat Party. “If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t Black!” Freed from Slavery in the Private Sector, to be put right back INTO “slavery” in the Public Sector, by the Southern Democrats! They conveniently ignore that “Slavery” is the most COMMON thing in all Human History, after Death and Taxes! There is a SLAVE, or SLAVE OWNER, in EVERYONE’S “family tree”, if they go back far enough.
“Oppressor” and “Oppressed”? Bull feces.
It was only a few centuries ago that most people were illiterate. That is one reason there are so few written records to reconstruct the history of such periods, few people would read or write the events down.
Even in recent times there were areas where the vast majority was illiterate. And one can look up world illiteracy rates on the internet, quite large.
The radical left aims at increasing illiteracy, makes it easier for them to control the population.
Then there is inability to do basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication). Makes such people economic slaves.
Elementary education ought to focus on reading, writing, arithmetic. Lots of drill so it is imprinted in the brain at an early age.
100% correct
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“The radical left aims at increasing illiteracy, makes it easier for them to control the population.” More than that, the left is relentlessly trying to rewrite history or erase that which doesn’t conform to their narrative. This is foundational to all Communist/Stalinist movements.
Winston Smith’s official job was to re-write history..
With the Help of the leftists NEA
Also, the Left believes that teaching the standard academic subjects simply prepares students to replicate the existing “oppressive” structures of society and that “education” should instead be directed to instilling in students a “critical consciousness” to make them activists and revolutionaries. This is called “critical pedagogy” and is taught in nearly all U.S. teaching colleges thanks to the efforts of Paulo Friere and Henry Giroux, Both, coincidentally, were communists.
When will the government and everyone else speak plainly? The “DEI” “Trans” ALL OF IT….is all destructive “bullsh*t” dreamed up by crazed marxist professors who never worked a real job in their entire lives. The are dedicated marxist revolutionaries whose clear purpose is to DESTROY the United States. Imagine it’s 1955 and American parents send all their best and brightest 18 years olds off to the Soviet Union to be brainwashed into Stalinist communism.
NO ONE WOULD DO THAT TO THEIR CHILDREN. It would also destroy the nation’s future. So why do we allow this now? All the public universities should be GUTTED, all the professors fired and completely revamped from the bottom up with Pro American, Pro Freedom curriculum. The marxist professors can wait on tables…if they have any real skills at all.
This writer was a substitute in a NYC elementary school in 1990. When I walked in, one second grader was standing on a table. When I asked him why he was standing on a table, he replied “I stand wherever I want to stand.” All this DEI stuff is feeding the chip that is on the shoulders of too many black and hispanic students in NYC and elsewhere. Since ours is supposedly a “racist system” their attitudes of rebellion or at least non-cooperation is to some degree accepted and encouraged by the system. If they study they are “being white.” If they don’t study or pay attention, they are doing the right thing according to the system but don’t know many things they need to know or be able to do.In short, it’s a lose-lose situations in the public schools especially for minority students (who are not minorities in NYC). Great article!!
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Division
Exclusion
Inequality
It’s all deliberate.
The Welsh government now pays coloured teachers more than Welsh nationals.
Thanks Mo !!!!! One side effect is that that drives good white teachers out of the educational system.
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The Leftists Bottom Feeders and Sewer Dwellers and the Lie that claims America was founded on Slavery this is the junk the youth get from the leftists NEA
You get what you allow. After WWII Americans said Nazis/ Fascists (or I suppose any totalitarian ideology) could ever take over and run our country. The German people warned that they would have said the same thing before WWII. Now, here we are 70 years later and half the voters support racism or are quietly allowing it to happen here in the USA and those responsible haven’t had to fire a single shot.