Christopher Rufo has been reporting on Critical Race Theory in our schools for the past year. His eleven headlines (and articles) below demoralize me. These are the teachings of Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi in action. I hope that attorneys file lawsuits with regard to every one of these situations for creating hostile race environments. This is also child abuse, but most of the parents either don’t know what is being taught to their children or they are afraid to speak up because doing so will cause them to be ostracized or branded “racists.”
Here are Rufo’s headlines and synopses. Each of the eleven locations below contains a link to Rufo’s full story of the way those schools are teaching CRT. Many of these stories are based upon whistle-blower oral and written disclosures to Rufo:
Seattle [Public Grade School]
Seattle Public Schools tells teachers that the education system is guilty of “spirit murder” against black children and that white teachers must “bankrupt [their] privilege in acknowledgement of [their] thieved inheritance.”
San Diego [Public K – 8]
San Diego Public Schools accuses white teachers of being colonizers on stolen Native American land and tells them “you are racist” and “you are upholding racist ideas, structures, and policies.” They recommend that the teachers undergo “antiracist therapy.”
Cupertino, California [Public School, Third Graders]
A Cupertino, California, elementary school forces third-graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.” They separate the eight-year-old children into oppressors and oppressed.
Springfield, Missouri [Public Middle School]
A middle school in Springfield, Missouri, forces teachers to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix,” claiming that white heterosexual Protestant males are inherently oppressors and must atone for their “covert white supremacy.”
Philadelphia [Public School – Fifth grade]
A Philadelphia elementary school forces fifth-graders to celebrate “Black communism” and simulate a Black Power rally to “free Angela Davis” from prison. At this school, 87 percent of students will fail to achieve basic literacy by graduation.
New York [Public School, Grades 6 – 12]
The principal of the East Side Community School in New York sent an email to white parents telling them that they should “subvert white authority,” become “white traitors,” and then advocate for full “white abolition.”
Buffalo [Public Grade Schools]
Buffalo Public Schools teaches students that “all white people” perpetuate systemic racism and forces kindergarteners to watch a video of dead black children warning them about “racist police and state-sanctioned violence” who might kill them at any time.
Arizona [ Department of Education Report regarding Babies]
The Arizona Department of Education created an “equity” toolkit claiming that babies show the first signs of racism at three months old and that white children become full racists—”strongly biased in favor of whiteness”—by age five.
California [Department of Education – Primary and Secondary School Students]
The California Department of Education passed an “ethnic studies” curriculum that calls for the “decolonization” of American society and has students chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice. The solution, according to one author, is “countergenocide.”
North Carolina [Public grade schools and high schools]
North Carolina’s largest school district launches a campaign against “whiteness in educational spaces”—and encourages teachers to subvert families and push the ideology of “antiracism” directly onto students without parental consent.
Santa Clara, California [Public grade schools and high schools]
Santa Clara County Office of Education denounces the United States as a “parasitic system” based on the “invasion” of “white male settlers” and encourages teachers to “cash in on kids’ inherent empathy” in order to recruit them into political activism.
When you are finished absorbing the highly divisive course materials used by these schools, also consider the numerous violations of the NEA teacher code of conduct.
This is state-sanctioned racism and state-sanctioned child abuse. Are you aware of any public-interest law firms big enough to survive bringing a class action lawsuit against teachers, principals, teachers’ unions and politicians who encourage or even just allow this to happen? I’ll gladly help advertise it and work on a gofundme page. My children have been out of public school since 1992 and 1995. I probably have no standing except as a taxpayer concerned about the direction his country is taking.
Bill, I’ve heard of some lawyers starting to take an interest in these sorts of cases. As you know, I am an attorney and I would consider suing one of these school districts for civil rights violations: Compelled speech, hostile racial environment, perhaps even imposed religion, intentional infliction of emotional distress, perhaps other theories as well.
I agree with Bill Heath. It seems this can only be addressed in the courts. But if I’m wrong, I’d like someone with legal knowledge to write about why it is wrong.
Here’s another disclosure from a NY public school:
John McWhorter has also experienced CRT denial: people who claim that people like McWhorter, Christopher Rufo–and I–are making shit up when we claim that a newish virulent and divisive version of CRT is rapidly spreading through American schools. McWhorter’s experience (from his Substack website:
I dunno… personally, the woke movement reminds me of McCarthyism and allied witch hunts more than anything else. The shift is from “innocent until proven guilty,” to “innocent until accused.”
johnE – It seems to me that it is “Guilty by Color! Case closed!
As current as most of this is, I would ask the question, why is it that this claptrap of Jane Elliot, co-opted by modern black leftists, is more difficult to shove back under the rock from where it reared its ugly head when the purveyor of the scam is no longer a pasty-white prude? In short, JE tried to sell the lie, but then realized that people would feel guilty about rejecting it if it came from a sales agent they could be guilted into buying from? I don’t usually comment on these forums, but I do think that any campaign to destroy this stupidity has to start at the root of the tree. Fix the stupidity in the white so-called liberal class, and the rest of the crowd will feel less guilty about kicking it to the curb.